Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Class antagonism has undoubtedly relegated national questions far into the background , but , without the risk of lapsing into doctrinairism , it can not be categorically asserted that some particular national question can not temporarily appear in the foreground of the political drama . |
| 2 | It follows that , strictly , we can not justifiably speak of the " same propositions " , or the " same concepts " . |
| 3 | Content to remain spectators , they can not reasonably complain about the way the political game is played by those willing to suffer its tedium and its tensions . |
| 4 | Obviously we can not simply rely on the raw figures if we wish to consider whether local authority expenditure had grown since the £9,230 million spent in 1974 — the year of reorganisation . |
| 5 | One might say that the feminist problem is that one can not simply speak of the one nature without the other . |
| 6 | One can not simply look at the kinds of problems thrown up by particular social structures and economic situations and analyse policies as responses to those problems , since policies themselves influence the character of the societies in which they are adopted . |
| 7 | Denied anger has to go somewhere ; it can not simply vanish into the air . |
| 8 | Amber 's Murray Martin is working with other independents on a strategy to counter the problem : ‘ One of the basic assumptions we have to deal with is that films made in Britain can not either break into the major circuit or survive in the market place , ’ he says . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps I can rely upon the Merkuts , for they can not yet aspire to the throne . |
| 10 | Thus , if there is to be a section about ‘ microtext history ’ and another section about ‘ macrotext history ’ , they can not both go by the name ‘ history ’ . |
| 11 | But in spite of their strength in accounting for historical continuities and pulling together many diverse elements Marxist analyses can not adequately account for the differences between capitalist health care systems and the details of their development , and the empirical evidence often contradicts the logic of the argument . |
| 12 | But it is tied to the capitalist social order and therefore it can not strategically deal with the causes of discrimination ( this is as true of discrimination against women , against black people , against those with disabilities ) . |
| 13 | The necessary amendments to company legislation are considered below , but it should be noted at this stage that there is no amendment to s 283 so that , although the sole member can be the sole director under s 282 , he or she can not also act as the company secretary . |
| 14 | Although the sole member can be the sole director , he or she can not also act as the company secretary |
| 15 | Mr E described Dave , now in his second term at this school , as exasperatingly ‘ lazy ’ , always talking to others , the only one in the class who will make a mess of things , who can not even copy from the board , but who can sometimes surprise by good work . |
| 16 | Islington can not even benefit from the ‘ dowry ’ system ( money paid by a health authority to a local authority for each patient returning to the community from hospital ) because their people never went to hospital . |
| 17 | In the jargon it is said that they can not even get on the Masters and Johnson ‘ ski-slope ’ , let alone start down it . |
| 18 | On the other hand , the leadership appreciates that it can not indefinitely trample upon the deeper convictions of the solid party supporters . |
| 19 | The time has come when the fact ought to be generally admitted that the amount of government … which is necessary to the welfare or even to the existence of a civilised community , can not permanently co-exist with the effective belief that deference to public opinion is in all cases the sole or the necessary basis of a democracy . |
| 20 | We can not rightly attribute to the Spirit any teaching which does not shed light on Jesus , or any religious experience which is not congruous with the life of Jesus . |
| 21 | I can not really add to the answer that I gave the hon. Member for Birmingham , Erdington ( Mr. Corbett ) . |
| 22 | We can not always rely on the fish already being there and feeling hungry too . |
| 23 | It can not then go to the carer no matter how long the care has lasted . |
| 24 | Faldo said at Wentworth yesterday that he made the decision because he feels he can not now finish at the top of the European order of merit by playing in Spain . |
| 25 | Many historians have tended to stress the instrumental nature of sexual relationships and the conflicts inherent in working-class patterns of life , and no doubt much of this was often true ; but because we can not now identify with the exact meanings given to activities , this does not mean that strong feelings of warmth and mutual support did not exist . |
| 26 | We are surprised FIFA have waited until now to make their high-risk ruling , particularly as Northern Ireland can not now qualify for the World Cup finals . ’ |
| 27 | The goldfish can not only spy on the fair-red secrets of our world , but its vision extends through the spectrum to shorter wavelength ultraviolet radiation , making it receptive to a wider band of light than almost any other animal . |
| 28 | This clip fixing of slipped slates is merely an expedient which can not forever put off the day when the permanent refixing or renewal of the entire roof covering is necessary . |
| 29 | A low phenylalanine diet can not fully substitute for the fine tuning of phenylalanine turnover normally exerted by hepatic phenylalanine hydroxylase . |
| 30 | Then , singers like to introduce their own free interpretations and can not possibly coincide with the more precise playing of orchestral instrumentalists or pianists . |