Example sentences of "but we can [not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may not always be completely happy with the published data we find in the Registrar-General 's reviews but we can not accuse him of using secondary sources when his organization has , in fact , collected all the information at first hand from the people themselves . |
| 2 | ‘ The Government says when the private sector run certain tracks inevitably they will offer special deals , ’ he said , ‘ but we can not tell them what to do any more than we tell BR what to do , ’ he said . |
| 3 | ( We might ‘ need ’ someone , cling to them , romanticise them , pity them , idealise them — but we can not love them unless we love ourselves . ) |
| 4 | ‘ But we can not give them cash limits because we have no idea how bad the weather is going to be in the winter or what particular type of ‘ flu might be coming along . |
| 5 | Perhaps by contemplating you will find something that is wrong in your proposition … dig the gold and look at the country , but we can not give you the country you ask for . |
| 6 | Not all of us are happy with the developments in Europe , but we can not ignore them . |
| 7 | We can create conditions for an employer , but we can not make him employ someone under those conditions . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | In our view , yes , but we can not quantify them and we believe that no-one can . |
| 10 | We may spread the bread of life with caviar , and smoke the sides of salmon to toast the fisherman of Galilee , and turn the water into the best claret , but we can not guarantee He will sit at our table unless we have laid a place for the poor , the outcast , the hungry and the friendless . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | ‘ We have the men , ’ cried Enderby , ‘ we have the measures , we have the message — but we can not put it across ! |