Example sentences of "[noun prp] can not [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | States can not entirely depend on such measures , however , and must make provision for their own defence . |
| 2 | We are surprised FIFA have waited until now to make their high-risk ruling , particularly as Northern Ireland can not now qualify for the World Cup finals . ’ |
| 3 | But Lyons can not simply shrug off such features as irrelevant and somehow ‘ impure ’ , for no use of English occurs without them . |
| 4 | Unless the Palestinians suffer a dramatic reverse Jordan can not conceivably negotiate for them . |
| 5 | Now look what had happened to the place , and I play you that because , maybe we shall never ever hear that again , because Yugoslavia can not now exist as a State . |
| 6 | Amber 's Murray Martin is working with other independents on a strategy to counter the problem : ‘ One of the basic assumptions we have to deal with is that films made in Britain can not either break into the major circuit or survive in the market place , ’ he says . |
| 7 | Islington can not even benefit from the ‘ dowry ’ system ( money paid by a health authority to a local authority for each patient returning to the community from hospital ) because their people never went to hospital . |