Example sentences of "[coord] we can not [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Soviet Union , so the story goes , is simply a different type of state , and we can not expect it to live peacefully or comfortably with its main adversary . |
| 2 | The spiritual care of the bereaved demands a book all on its own and we can not do it justice here since we have been more concerned with the human experiences that people undergo . |
| 3 | It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we can not sell it because it does not belong to us . |
| 4 | Det Insp John Tough , of Cleveland Police drug squad , said : ‘ Our intelligence has not yet revealed unauthorised use , but we can not rule it out . ’ |
| 5 | There is a point in this suggestion , but we can not see it unless we are careful to distinguish between two kinds of consistency a lawmaker might seek : consistency in strategy and consistency in principle . |
| 6 | panel seeks to make that two million pounds , subject to the appropriate level of grants and borrow approvals and perhaps some assistance from within our own resources and elsewhere being budget , this is a , a firm intention to increase that figure , but we can not say it has been increased yet , to do so will be premature , but that I ask the committee to accept it this morning as a recommendation from the |
| 7 | ‘ We have the men , ’ cried Enderby , ‘ we have the measures , we have the message — but we can not put it across ! |