Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun pl] can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Political and economic pressures can not do it . |
| 2 | For the poor , the burden can be too great , and some parents can not afford to send their offspring to school . |
| 3 | On the one hand , tenure in top positions is normally limited through a more explicit contractual term of office than is employed in the private sector , and self-perpetuating oligarchies can not form . |
| 4 | But if all the dogs and guns and mobile-response patrols can not guarantee your safety , where do you go ? |
| 5 | I hope that if my right hon. and hon. Friends can not accept the case for regional banding for London and the south , they will reconsider the problems that the revenue support grant can produce for London . |
| 6 | Yet many small and medium companies can not give very much in the way of resources and may be in need of a great deal for themselves . |
| 7 | Hall is right to say that current Labour and Liberal parties can not take on the task of realignment , but would be equally correct in saying they ca n't be by-passed . |
| 8 | Many sales were admittedly quite modest and overall results can not compare with those of the glory days of 1989 , but nobody was complaining . |
| 9 | I think this book and these exhibitions can not fail to give a new direction to Modigliani studies . |
| 10 | If it is readily intelligible , so much the better ; but it is far more important that it should yield its meaning accurately than that it should yield it on first reading , and legal draftsmen can not afford to give much attention , if any , to euphony or literary elegance . |
| 11 | It concentrates on its niche market using the narrow 880 metre strip at Alderney where the Trislander triumphs because the bigger aircraft can not use it , and smaller ones can not make a profit . |
| 12 | Cheryl Clarke cites from a leaflet distributed at a Black Liberation Movement meeting in 1981 : ‘ Revolutionary nationalists and genuine communists can not uphold homosexuality in the leadership of the Black Liberation Movement … |
| 13 | The two types of approach are qualitatively quite different , because in the consultative case , the proposing knowledge source imposes a partial ordering on candidates , and other sources can not alter this ordering , and must evaluate each candidate ( or set of candidates ) in order , without knowing what other , from their point of view better , candidates might be proposed later . |
| 14 | Most rare and threatened flowers and other plants can not tolerate high nitrogen . |
| 15 | In 1950 the electors consisted of a board of the vice-chancellor and eight persons of whom five were at Cambridge and three from outside Cambridge ; but one of the five was away in America , and absent persons can not vote . |
| 16 | Thus initial gh symbolise f , and final ti can not symbolise sh in English . |
| 17 | Very dry and sensitive skins can not use alcohol-based cleansers and may even find water-cleansing too much . |
| 18 | The scientific research into the history of plating technology relies almost entirely on microscopy and element analysis , but these techniques can not provide a complete picture of many of the non-metallic inlays used by the ancient metalworkers . |
| 19 | Short vowels before voiceless stops ( or sonorant + voiceless obstruent ) are also front , but non-velar items can not undergo front-raising . |
| 20 | That is a good cheap way to sell PCs , but many dealers can not cope with bigger , more complex machines . |