Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if the employee is successful in the job , if the spouse can not adapt to live in the English culture and speak the language , the assignment may well fail . |
| 2 | Like a child who can not bear to look at the cupboard where the witch might live , she stared past the bench and its mummified shape . |
| 3 | I do hope you wo n't mind fearfully , but I 've said I can not continue to serve under the G any longer . |
| 4 | Sadly , even their combined efforts can not hope to compensate for the many jobs lost . |
| 5 | A teacher can not hope to function as a normal communicative support system in most classroom interaction since it is a one-to-many rather than a one-to-one situation . |
| 6 | We can not hope to compete with the big stores for plain , cheap knitwear — they can buy their yarn at much better prices than we can and when we add costing for our time we price ourselves out of the market . |
| 7 | If we are constituted as subjects by the totalities we inhabit , then our beliefs about the divide between science and ideology ( Althusser 's included ) will be determined too , and we can not expect to arrive at an impartial , objective view of it . |
| 8 | To be summarily told that he has now dropped in the county pecking-order , that he can not expect to graduate to the captaincy , came as a shock . |
| 9 | The Pacific region can not fail to benefit from the current recovery in the US economy , Baillie Gifford believes . |
| 10 | So , in a paper written to commemorate the life and work of Danny Lehrman , whose critical interest in ethology and psychiatry had been considerable , I argued pessimistically ( Crook 1977 a ) that an understanding of the primate behaviour I had been reviewing ‘ provides no more than a kind of educational backcloth — a reference literature for university courses on human evolution and that it can not begin to touch upon the existential issues that are the central focus of living human relations . |
| 11 | A patient may be so anxious that he can not begin to act in a way which would resolve his problems . |
| 12 | We can not guarantee to deliver to the person . |
| 13 | Either the individual can not get to sleep in the first place or he wakes frequently during the night . |
| 14 | If it is so for choices of means it is so for choices of ends ; and it is one of the greatest temptations to irrationality that nothing compels us to acknowledge in the realm of ends what we can not afford to deny in the realm of means . |
| 15 | There are so many carp anglers , all fishing with high nutritive value ( HNV ) boiled baits , attached to hair- and bolt-rigs , usually at long range , you can not afford to persist with the old baits and rigs and expect much success . |
| 16 | He will also be aware that the planning system can now be used to require a developer to make provision for a percentage of homes specifically for young people who can not afford to buy on the open market . |
| 17 | If relatives can not afford to pay for the funeral they should seek assistance from the Department of Social Security ( DSS ) ( see Section 4 ) . |
| 18 | We can not afford to concentrate on the mote in the eye of the Sudanese military , or in those of the inadequate political leaders in Harare , until we have removed the beam from our own eye . |
| 19 | The engineering and steel employers ' federations say most of their members can not afford to stick to the original schedule for boosting eastern wages . |
| 20 | ‘ Now , we can not afford to look beyond the return game with the Belgians and start thinking about Marseille . |