Example sentences of "can [adv] [adv] [verb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A counter-balance for Satan can not be found for Milton has gone too far in his wonderful description and characterisation so that even his portrayal of God can not even hope to rise to the same level . |
| 2 | ‘ I myself can not even begin to imagine by what mental process an educated and rational man of some sensibility moves from the reputed subtleties of Keynsian economics ( the process which has , apparently , saved the capitalist system from the collapse which would in turn have provoked a revolution ) to the blatant crudities of contemplating intercourse with a mindless whore . |
| 3 | The thrust of the private language argument is that the solipsist can not even get started in this way . |
| 4 | Plainly Henry Ward Beecher , the great New York preacher of puritanism , should either have avoided having tumultuous extra-marital love-affairs or chosen a career which did not require him to be quite such a prominent advocate of sexual restraint ; though one can not entirely fail to sympathise with the bad luck which linked him in the mid-1870s with the beautiful feminist and advocate of free love , Victoria Woodhull , a lady whose convictions made privacy difficult . |
| 5 | In any event , this point can not possibly justify departing from the clear import of the language of the statute . |
| 6 | But this is one candle you can not possibly afford to extinguish in your life , for without it you may lose much of the valuable to-and-fro of friendship , which can protect you from isolation , and act as a safety-valve when you are under strain . |
| 7 | Solicitors throughout the country have sent the Law Society examples of cases where people in desperate need of legal advice are no longer eligible for help , but can not possibly afford to pay for it themselves . |
| 8 | on the other hand , a school with a high rate of staff turnover can not usually afford to wait for a consensus and readiness that may never come ; and a staff hand-picked in a new school , or for a new school situation such as amalgamation or unstreaming , is usually in a mood for bigger adventures . |
| 9 | The main thing that surprised me was that the biomorphs can pretty quickly cease to look like trees . |
| 10 | One family is so upset they can no longer bear to look after the girl they were given . |
| 11 | Manufacturers can no longer charge according to some idea of ‘ value ’ but must compete on price and performance . |
| 12 | This unexpected development was accompanied by a White House statement which said that " the nation can no longer afford to wait for Congress to act " on proposed legislation to allow inter-state banking . |
| 13 | Art prices have now spiralled to the point , it was suggested , where even a collector of Charles Saatchi 's great wealth can no longer afford to buy without selling . |
| 14 | STATE schools are being forced to turn away children whose parents can no longer afford to pay for private education . |
| 15 | The City Council bought the site from a scrap merchant , but it can no longer afford to pay for restoration work and Llanthony itself seems destined for the scrapheap . |
| 16 | Caterers can no longer afford to look for a machine that gives performance at any cost . |