Example sentences of "and [noun pl] can [not/n't] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | WORDS and pictures can not describe the disaster that is unfolding in former Yugoslavia . |
2 | If change is treated at the large-scale level , teachers , non-teaching staff , governors and parents can not deny the consequences of local financial management : " Pushing management decisions — for instance , about staffing complements and who should be appointed and dismissed — down to the schools will make it extremely important to know what they will do with their new-found power " ( Maclure 1990:9 ) . |
3 | Here excess supply of goods means that output is determined by demand and firms can not sell the desired volume of output . |
4 | JCO in 1991 is unlikely to exhibit a rapid fall from six to seven authors — for example , because the distribution is already shifted far to the right ; conversely , basic research journals such as Nature and PNAS can not exhibit the pattern until their modal author number increases to 6 . |
5 | Victims of verbal assaults who suffer hurt feelings , sleepless nights , physical illness , or ostracism by friends and neighbours can not bring an action . |
6 | For anatomical reasons , chimps and gorillas can not produce a range of sounds sufficient for speech . |
7 | ARFU officials and Wallabies can not fathom the Home Unions ' inflexibility on the issue , particularly since the ARFU allowed England to interrupt their tour of Australia last year to play two matches in Fiji before returning to play a Test in Sydney . |