Example sentences of "and [art] [noun pl] can [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Applying those considerations to the present case , their Lordships are of the view that since the plaintiff was well aware that the defendants would be acting also for other vendors of comparable properties and in so doing would receive confidential information from those other vendors , the agency contract between the plaintiff and the defendants can not have included either ( a ) a term requiring the defendants to disclose such confidential information to the plaintiff or ( b ) a term precluding the defendants acting for rival vendors or ( c ) a term precluding the defendants from seeking to earn commission on the sale of the property of a rival vendor . |
| 2 | The only explanation proposed to date for the absence of to after the modal auxiliaries ( Mittwoch 1990 : 127-9 ) is , by the author 's own admission , " entirely syntactic " : to is analysed as a modal itself , and since the grammar " must include a constraint against two modals in sequence in order to rule out examples such as * If John agreed to baby-sit , we would can go " , it follows that to and the modals can not co-occur . |
| 3 | If the agreement satisfied all the requirements of a tenancy , then the agreement produced a tenancy and the parties can not alter the effect of the agreement by insisting that they only created a licence . |
| 4 | The cage is made of wire mesh with a sloping floor , and the hens can not do anything that comes naturally to them , such as stretch their wings , scratch around , dustbathe or perch . |
| 5 | Therefore , in cells that have no mtDNA ( termed cells ) , the electron-transport chain can not function and the cells can not carry out oxidative phosphorylation . |
| 6 | Severe headache sometimes and the eyes can not stand the light . |