Example sentences of "[subord] a [noun] can [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a party can not protect his position by a payment into court , he may make the other party a written offer filing a copy with the court , but not to be brought to the attention of the court until costs fall to be decided ( Ord 12 , r 10 ) and similarly , where contribution arises a party may make a written offer to contribute ( Ord 12 , r 7 ) . |
| 2 | Although a company can not expect all staff offered transfers to other parts of the country to accept them , it can take steps to improve employees ' attitudes towards relocation . |
| 3 | Equally , although a volunteer can not give out money , they know what the local social services and charities have available . |
| 4 | ‘ although a corporation can not maintain an action for libel in respect of anything reflecting upon them personally , yet they can maintain an action for a libel reflecting on the management of their trade or business , and this without alleging or proving special damage . |
| 5 | Motability is a registered charity and if a person can not meet the full cost of putting a car on the road , including any adaptations , Motability may be able to provide some financial help from special funds . |
| 6 | If a farmer can not raise more than 30 cwt. of wheat per acre , when more successful farmers are averaging twice that , it would be far wiser to use the land for other , more profitable , purposes . |
| 7 | But , as several dealers told The Art Newspaper , waiving exhibition fees is a concession which makes little difference if a gallery can not make sufficient sales to recoup costs estimated at £10,000–40,000 for taking stock and staff to Madrid . |
| 8 | Lord Denning has written that the whole of the English law of criminal negligence , and indeed the biggest change in civil law this century , derives from the commandment to love thy neighbour enunciated by Lord Atkins in 1932 , when he ruled that , even if a man can not love his neighbour , he must still refrain from harming him , and that in law his neighbour was anyone who was so closely and directly affected by his actions that he ought to have had that in mind when he acted . |
| 9 | If a government can not bring itself to introduce a completely free market for foreign exchange ( at least for current transactions ) , there are many possible alternative policies . |
| 10 | If a patient can not change position at will , the nurse becomes responsible for doing it for him . |
| 11 | If a member can not carry out work for which a deposit has been paid , the fund will either ensure the work is carried out at a fair price less the deposit or refund the deposit . |
| 12 | 1.3 However , RSC Ord 38 and CCR Ord 20 are expressed to be subject to the Civil Evidence Act 1968 ( see Appendix B ) under which hearsay evidence in documents can be put in at trial if a party can not call the witness . |
| 13 | It arises directly out of the " no conflict " rule , of which it is a logical consequence ; if a director can not keep the benefit he would obtain were he to take advantage of his position , he will not be tempted to take advantage . |
| 14 | In other words , if a shopkeeper can not show that he took every reasonable step to satisfy himself about the age of the person buying cigarettes or any other tobacco product , he has committed an offence . |
| 15 | If a city can not dispose of its sewage properly , it will pollute water , and negate any progress made on that front . |
| 16 | Because a client can not pay you , you ca n't say you wo n't act for him , you ca n't tell him to go and sort the Inland Revenue out himself . |
| 17 | Because a client can not pay you , you ca n't say we will no longer act . |
| 18 | While a company can not deprive itself of its power to alter its articles , an agreement by which shareholders ( without binding future shareholders ) agree personally between themselves about the manner in which they will exercise their voting powers is enforceable ( p 112 ) . |
| 19 | Thus , while a company can not deprive itself of its power to alter its articles , an agreement by which shareholders ( without binding future shareholders ) agree personally between themselves about the manner in which they will exercise their voting powers is enforceable . |
| 20 | However , since it is difficult to turn an autocrat into a democrat , or vice versa — ie. since a leopard can not change its spots … |
| 21 | A moment 's thought will show that this ideal state can not possibly exist , since a gyro can not react to something until after that something has already happened . |
| 22 | When a nation can not produce as cheaply or as well as foreigners , then no barriers will save it against smugglers , fashion and the consumer 's interest . |
| 23 | CHECKMATE or MATE : when a player can not get his king out of check , the king is checkmated and the game is over . |
| 24 | The ideal needs integrity , however , for a citizen can not treat himself as the author of a collection of laws that are inconsistent in principle , nor can he see that collection as sponsored by any Rousseauian general will . |
| 25 | Even though a plaintiff can not prove negligence , if the fire originated from a non-natural user of the defendant 's land , the Act of 1774 does not provide a defence and the defendant will be liable . |