Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , the sentence-grammarian can not remain immured from the discourse he encounters in his daily life . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The famous sequence where the heroine can not stop thinking about the blood-stained knife , and keeps overhearing the word ‘ knife ’ in her father 's newsagent 's shop , is also an unparalleled use of sound technique . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I do hope you wo n't mind fearfully , but I 've said I can not continue to serve under the G any longer . |
| 6 | Sadly , even their combined efforts can not hope to compensate for the many jobs lost . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 | In other words , the sceptic , if he is to make himself understood , can not avoid relying on the conceptual scheme that he is overtly attacking , and if so , his argument collapses before it can even get off the ground . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We can not guarantee to deliver to the person . |
| 13 | When one turns to Katsaris 's Mendelssohn piano concertos some of the same problems of self-conscious technical prowess remain , but one can not help responding to the sheer verve and impetus of the playing . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , I can not help wondering about the parcels , for that is something so out of the ordinary , and about the things which are now missing . |
| 15 | The Labour Party 's lead in the polls and the doubts which the Conservatives themselves can not help feeling about the state of the economy , both made the audience in the Winter Gardens anxious to demonstrate unity by giving standing ovations to the architects of the Government 's economic policy . |
| 16 | Either the individual can not get to sleep in the first place or he wakes frequently during the night . |
| 17 | Suppose , however , that we can not get rid of the tax on meals . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | If relatives can not afford to pay for the funeral they should seek assistance from the Department of Social Security ( DSS ) ( see Section 4 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The engineering and steel employers ' federations say most of their members can not afford to stick to the original schedule for boosting eastern wages . |
| 24 | ‘ Now , we can not afford to look beyond the return game with the Belgians and start thinking about Marseille . |
| 25 | No one must be false to that oath , but in order to return a collective verdict , the verdict of you all , there must necessarily be argument , and a certain amount of give and take and adjustment of views within the scope of the oath you have taken , and it makes for great public inconvenience and expense if jurors can not agree owing to the unwillingness of one of their number to listen to the arguments of the rest . |