Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] " 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 | A ‘ message ’ Christology can not simply consist in a message , a message which exists independently of the person who preached it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Denied anger has to go somewhere ; it can not simply vanish into the air . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | because human subjectivity can not ultimately exist outside a division into one of two sexes , then it is castration that finally comes to symbolise this split … . |
| 11 | Whereas the authentic socialist realist writer , by virtue of his/her ideological position , is able to " describe the forces working towards socialism from the inside " , the critical realist , although potentially capable in Lukacs 's terms of " grasping the new realities of the old order and of the old consciousness in their actual novelty and not as elements of disintegration of decay " can not ultimately accede to a socialist revelation of the world , trammelled as he/she is by vestiges of bourgeois ideology . |
| 12 | ‘ Perhaps I can rely upon the Merkuts , for they can not yet aspire to the throne . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | You can not just hop on a train in Sweden , but must think about it carefully and purchase a ticket in advance . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Although the sole member can be the sole director , he or she can not also act as the company secretary |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In the jargon it is said that they can not even get on the Masters and Johnson ‘ ski-slope ’ , let alone start down it . |
| 22 | The distinguished Scots ecologist Adam Watson believes that the native pinewoods can not even survive without a great initial reduction in deer numbers followed by a regular programme of culling . |
| 23 | The leader has special functions and can not therefore behave as an ordinary group member ( ie be ‘ one of the boys ’ ) . |
| 24 | We can not therefore appeal to a widely accepted body of theory , and much of the discussion is qualitative in nature . |
| 25 | The 41-year-old duke said last night : ‘ I can not morally stay within a party which I fundamentally believe has ideologically gone off the rails . ’ |
| 26 | On the other hand , the leadership appreciates that it can not indefinitely trample upon the deeper convictions of the solid party supporters . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I can not really add to the answer that I gave the hon. Member for Birmingham , Erdington ( Mr. Corbett ) . |
| 30 | However , one can not really argue with a mathematical theorem . |