Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] can not [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I promise not to offend again , although I can not promise that I will keep the promise . ’ |
| 2 | In this book , I describe and explain these activities and although I can not claim that this is a comprehensive guide to parties — such a task would be virtually impossible ! — I do know that , if you follow my advice , your children and their friends will have a really enjoyable time ! |
| 3 | I was only three-and-a-half when I saw the Zeppelin , although I can not claim that it kindled any positive interest in flying . |
| 4 | He argued that I can not know that my diary is in the ( closed ) bottom drawer of my desk unless I have reason to believe that my experience makes that proposition probable ; we can suppose , perhaps , that my relevant experience is that I remember having put the diary there five minutes ago and that I do not remember having touched the drawer since , together with my general knowledge of the consistent behaviour of the experienced world . |
| 5 | I mean that you can not say that carp are generally nocturnal feeders , or morning feeders , or whatever . |
| 6 | Although we can not guarantee that your requirement will be met , we will certainly pass on your requests to the Hotel concerned , and make every effort to satisfy your requirements . |
| 7 | Hence , although we can not say that every material ought to have the same strength , we can say that , very approximately , all materials ought to have the same elastic breaking strain . |
| 8 | Certainly it is true that we can not expect that writers in Palestine thousands of years ago would have talked about sicknesses in the jargon of medical aetiology . |
| 9 | They all require us to make sense of the realist thought that it is always possible that , unknown to us , the world differs radically from the way it appears to us , and argue from this that we can not know that the world really is the way it appears to us . |
| 10 | The Labour party says that we can not argue that a single person should pay less than a family next door with several working adults . |
| 11 | Well it pays to tramp around you see the problem with Jackie and Len has always been that they can not believe that you can get things in a place like W H Smith that will , that will do very nicely as a Christmas present , they tend to go |
| 12 | J. C. D. Clark has asserted that government at St James 's and Westminster was conducted " in terms which usually owed relatively little to a sense of popular pressure or wide accountability " , and although he can not deny that the electorate was growing in the period c. 1680 – 1715 , he attributes this to the attempts by the party leaders to manipulate the potential electorate for their own purposes : " The parties , in other words , created their electorate in these years ( rather than vice versa ) " . |
| 13 | All I can now remember of questions and answers is writing a three-hour essay on ‘ Security ’ , and I can not think that it was very good . |
| 14 | The gravamen of the charge is the demand without reasonable or probable cause : and I can not think that the mere fact that the threat is to do something a person is entitled to do either causes the threat not to be a ‘ menace ’ within the Act or in itself provides a reasonable or probable cause for the demand … |
| 15 | And I can not suppose that experience itself has given me reason to believe that the unobserved will resemble the observed , since the appeal to experience begs the question asked ; it argues not to but from the crucial belief that our experience is a reliable guide , or that the unobserved will resemble the observed . |
| 16 | It will be obvious by now that my account of the emergence of black sportsmen runs contrary to such views and I can not accept that blacks are ‘ made for physical things ’ any more than I can that their continued failure in more formal academic realms is based on inadequate intellectual resources . |
| 17 | He is ever confused and his confusion makes him angry and I can not see that it can be helped though it is hard to endure . |
| 18 | But they concern themselves primarily with discussing the application of nuclear physics , and I can not see that the work of a biologist could profitably be discussed at such a conference , and certainly not by me . |
| 19 | And I can not believe that the two did not exchange at length here , passing the very threshold of such a dominant historic occasion , an event which still burnt into the consciousness of all Scots at the time . |
| 20 | Is my hon. Friend aware that I have lived for a number of years without any such advice , and I can not believe that it is really necessary ? |
| 21 | The majority in the community from which I come would welcome internment at this time , and I can not believe that the integrity of the Roman Catholic community is such that its members would choose this continued slaughter in our Province in preference to removing from the streets those who command and control the violence that besets us . |
| 22 | Mr Smith 's survival techniques are sound and I can not imagine that any accountant would gainsay them . |
| 23 | If it is appropriate for the courts to adopt some kind of policy in order to protect government against itself ( and I can not say that the idea particularly appeals to me ) , it should be one that distributes the loss fairly across the public . |
| 24 | They can not prove that they are right and you can not prove that they are wrong . |
| 25 | still a human error even though you know how to do it , and we can not guarantee that you 'll do it so it , so it is , the , it is very important that nobody takes anything off the shelf automatically assume |
| 26 | And we can not say that one way of perceiving things is more real than another . |
| 27 | For in the circumstances of ordinary politics the checkerboard strategy will prevent instances of injustice that would otherwise occur , and we can not say that justice requires not eliminating any injustice unless we can eliminate all . |
| 28 | They can not imagine him as a Prime Minister , and they can not imagine that the British public can be persuaded to elect him to that post . |
| 29 | These cortical consequences of social evolution provide the basis for the acquisition of some sort of superego , even if they can not ensure that it is a rational , mature and adaptive one . |
| 30 | If he can not deduce that one or other party was to blame he can not send them both away empty-handed but must find that both contributed ( as happened in Baker v Market Harborough Industrial Co-operative Society , Wallace v Richards ( Leicester ) Ltd [ 1953 ] 1 WLR 1472 . |