Example sentences of "[pron] can not [verb] [indef pn] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This world is a hard place , children , and we can not understand everything that God does . |
| 2 | Now we have lost one and want to replace it but the nursery do not grow it any more , and we can not find one that does . ’ |
| 3 | Obviously , one can not accept anything that Philby says since he would have a vested interest in causing mischief amongst the British security services , but it is interesting that he did volunteer the suggestion that MI6 was involved . |
| 4 | We were told that one can not reconstruct something that is not there . |
| 5 | At best they are ‘ stills ’ from a sequence of actions ; and they can not portray anything that goes beyond visual observation . |