Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] can not [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the 22 years I have sat on the North Eastern Co-op 's board I can not recall a year in which so many negative factors have combined . |
| 2 | We have of course made it clear that those techs who were piloting er the out of school childcare initiative er will continue er to be funded er along with all other techs from ninety four , five and although of course I can not preempt the tech 's judgement and take a view on that particular scheme , er I can say that funding will continue for techs for that purpose . |
| 3 | Whatever the result you can not fire the cannon this turn when it MISFIRES . |
| 4 | Any lawyer who can not find a book will be able to look at the card and see who has taken it . |
| 5 | Until we have such a conception we can not describe the original sensation to ourselves ; it is just a useless this , for the concept of the sensation has no content until the rules have been set up . |
| 6 | We found no evidence to support previous suggestions of an excess of cancer in men treated with atenolol , but in an observational study we can not discount the possibility of confounding factors . |
| 7 | The notion that a Ministry which can not command a majority in the House of Commons … a Ministry in a minority of 31 per cent … in these circumstances is invested with the right to demand a dissolution is as subversive of constitutional usage , as it would , in my opinion , be pernicious to the general and paramount interests of the nation at large . |
| 8 | It is totally pointless to use extra-heavy rods at short range which can not do the job they were designed for if they are not used with lines of the appropriate length . |
| 9 | ‘ As my Lord said , there may be particular kinds of libel which can not affect a corporation , but in respect of such libels as are injurious to it an action may be maintained . |
| 10 | NACC You can not close an SPR which has not been accepted . |
| 11 | NACC You can not close an SPR which has not been accepted . |
| 12 | When we reach the village we can not find the dispensary . |
| 13 | However , for normal purposes they are perfectly adequate and offer the best solution for the home or small business user who can not afford the more professional systems . |
| 14 | Find out as much about the food requirements of your fish before you purchase them in case you can not provide the special diet required . |
| 15 | But if as a Westerner you can not read the abacus , or the scales , it is bad luck , because the assumption is that everyone shares the skills that enable them to do this . |
| 16 | After all , if she loses her job , things may be difficult , but if I lose my job we can not pay the mortgage . |
| 17 | Boys who feel backward grow backward , even when they are not , for they suffer from the illusion that by nature they can not solve the problems set to them . |
| 18 | If we can not even face the present , of course we can not build the future . |
| 19 | At present we can not quantify the relative strength of the preference ; the solution to this question requires more detailed study of natural pair formation . |
| 20 | To this day I can not ride a bicycle . |
| 21 | In this regard criminal law shares a problem with contract law , which adopts the ambivalent posture of holding both that the devil himself can not know the mind of man and that the state of a man 's mind is as much a question of fact as is the state of his digestion . |
| 22 | An innkeeper is not bound to supply with reasonable refreshment or to accommodate , any person who can not pay a reasonable sum for these services . |
| 23 | Our sportsdesk can spot from a mile off a person who can not tell an in-swinger from a bouncer . |
| 24 | It is also possible to accept an attractive and charming person who can not get the job done . |
| 25 | Any person who can not appreciate the obligation this imposes is not a competent witness . |
| 26 | To the extent that language learners , by definition , are deficient in competence they can not authenticate the language they deal with in the manner of the native speaker . |
| 27 | And therefore , in the County Council 's erm opinion , the test which I need to adopt when I go to the site again , is to look at it and er simply make a decision as to whether or not in my opinion the land is more properly a part of this built-up area which can not perform a greenbelt function , or is a part of the general extent of greenbelt around there , and therefore by definition performs a greenbelt function . |
| 28 | It is true that these processes may well have a spatial expression in a specific situation , but there are others to which it is difficult to attribute any physical manifestation , or by definition which can not have a spatial expression at all . |
| 29 | The teenager who can not find a job , the young mother with no one but toddlers to talk to , the active man forced to retire because of age regulations , the person who spends day after day doing the same repetitive work — all these people , and many others , may suffer from extreme boredom . |
| 30 | He links this to the act of consciousness raising , which I consider presents the greatest problem for the insider who can not leave the field or return to academia . |