Example sentences of "[pron] can not [adv] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I live on the banks of the Lea and I can not properly tell the House what an amazing joy it is to wake up every morning and look over the marshes . |
| 2 | If I am serious , I can not simply see the preservation of the countryside as a desire of a few people like myself , to be weighed in the balance against the desires of others for holidays abroad , when it comes to deciding on whether a new airport should be built in some place of outstanding beauty . |
| 3 | When I can not even remember the names of the women I slept with ? |
| 4 | I can not even hear the words , ’ point of order ’ . |
| 5 | I can not quite remember the title of the Ballet , but Miss Margot Fonteyn was on her way up , we were quite sure , and that redhead Moira Shearer was running her a good second . |
| 6 | Well admit I I can not actually bring an evidence at this point in time to support that er , that er er assertion . |
| 7 | I can not now become a full dervish ; or at least not until my nieces are educated and married . |
| 8 | I can not therefore regard the two sentences from the judgment of Lord Denning , which I have quoted , as being an authority on the question which we have to consider . |
| 9 | I realise that this is a short debate and that I can not possibly ask the hon. Lady all the questions that I should like to ask . |
| 10 | I can not possibly reveal the name of the alleged culprit , because at the time of going to press he 's taken a well-deserved holiday in the ardeche from his climbing wall company |
| 11 | Those few studies of cinema audiences that do exist have employed the methods of mass sociology and market research , which can not fully capture the individual , subjective experience of filmgoing , since they miss out idiosyncratic detail and the personal dreamworld . |
| 12 | Joanna , trying to cope with the painful fact that she can not ever have a baby , begins to remember the life of 19th-century Anna and her son , Merlin . |
| 13 | She had always sworn to herself that she would never impose on her daughter 's marriage 2. ) but she knows now that she can not possibly decline an invitation to spend the rest of her days at her son-in-law 's house . |
| 14 | If the upper part had been true as to intervals it would have been in B major , and of course the tonal results would have been chaotic : organ Whether intervals are true or false does not matter to listeners , who can not easily distinguish the difference . |
| 15 | It has long been known that skilled smallholders , owning their own plots of land , can produce very much more from an acre than large-scale farmers with labourers who can not possibly have the same dedication . |
| 16 | And why , when you have agreed a price on the home you want , you can not simply hand the owner a cheque then move in . |
| 17 | You can not both chair the meeting and hard sell an idea to members . |
| 18 | If you delay claiming for more than three months , you can not normally get the pension backdated . |
| 19 | You can , of course , define Pacifism by a reference to force , but you can not thereby save the world from the use of force … . |
| 20 | In the sister institute in the French-speaking Cameroon set up somewhat earlier at Yaounde , workers embarked more conventionally straight into a programme of materials production and were able to announce confidently that by March 1973 , ‘ about 47 tons of textbooks and 33 tons of documents have been produced ’ , but you can not profitably assess the success of a curriculum by weight ; many megatons of unprofitable material have been produced ( and will still be produced ) all over Africa just because no preliminary study had been made to ascertain whether children and parents wanted them , could afford them , read them or understand them . |
| 21 | That 's just what they usually do for an exercise , there 's no much You can not actually simulate an actual rescue so that 's the best you can do . |
| 22 | However carefully and thoroughly you prepare the ground , you can not possibly hold the whole complex totality of a novel in your head in all its detail at any one moment . |
| 23 | If you feel that you can not possibly win a competition as , |
| 24 | If you can not quite explore the full extent simply slice off another section of the hole with the spade and then reach further to complete the work . |
| 25 | But remember that you can not usually make a will unless you are over 18 . |
| 26 | You can not only expect a very warm welcome in Seefeld , but the green fees wo n't make your toes curl and the course is rarely crowded . |
| 27 | In principle all three MOs of a 1 symmetry have contributions from all three constituent a 1 orbitals , and we can not easily deduce the final pattern of energies and bonding characters . |
| 28 | Without such awareness , we can not easily address the issue of what constitutes an appropriate social model for sociolinguistics . |
| 29 | It is not merely that without a hold on the representation problem we can not discover the relevant content in the historical record ; without understanding that problem , we can not adequately control the idea that there is any relevant content at all . |
| 30 | It is not possible for most horse owners to finely tune their horses diets , this is left to the nutritionists and even then this is not absolutely precise , after all we can not regularly analyse every horse owner 's grazing , or feed . |