Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] can not [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea . |
| 2 | What takes place when someone learns something can not be observed directly ; we can only know that learning has taken place by examining changes m the person 's behaviour after the event . |
| 3 | There is no evidence for this , which is probably why the quality of their argument can fall so low , with Shamir saying of perhaps the most influential and long-standing of PLO ‘ moderates ’ , Khalid Hassan , that ‘ when you see his face you know he can not be trusted . ’ |
| 4 | If the problem is serious or you feel you can not be confident of an impartial assessment of your complaint from the key men in the corporate hierarchy , you will probably need to turn elsewhere . |
| 5 | The giant who knows she can not be helped in any way . |
| 6 | But we know it can not be quite right because it does n't incorporate the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics . |
| 7 | Because , no matter what we learn we can not be educated into the Kingdom . |
| 8 | ‘ While people are cautious about a lot of developments in Europe , rightly so , and while they are looking for British advantage , rightly so , they realise it can not be done from the back of the class . |
| 9 | The offer would seem at first sight to be an extremely generous one , but those who make it know it can not be accepted . |
| 10 | And it is itself always also paradoxical , for it discloses what can not be scaled down to be contained , proved , measured , demonstrated or explained within the framework of finite human reasoning . |
| 11 | His dream is only an illusion and he knows it can not be realised . |
| 12 | This change in Pip 's attitude and behaviour and perhaps his realisation that he is not a true gentleman is his final change from contentment , to discontentment and snobbery to finally semi-contentment though I think he knows he can not be fully content with reaching some sort of conclusion with Estella as she still has his heart . |