Example sentences of "can not [vb infin] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not tell you how to create an ad . |
| 2 | Research can not tell us how to work with people whose cultural norms and traditions are different from our own . |
| 3 | By that I do not mean than one can not pin them down to set feeding patterns on specific waters . |
| 4 | If a bench of two justices can not bring themselves thus to dispose of the case there was no other sensible construction of section 9(2) then that a bench of three must become seized of the matter , rehear the evidence and comply with the statute , i.e. convict or acquit on the evidence . |
| 5 | Dublin can not bring itself publicly to renounce its territorial claim to the North , while privately living in dread of ever having to acknowledge a direct responsibility for Northern Ireland 's Protestants . |
| 6 | Seals have almost spherical lenses and can not flatten them enough to see far through the air . |
| 7 | Some degree of shared morality is essential to this minimum of cohesion , and any weakening of moral belief may reduce it below this minimum ; hence we can not bind ourselves not to use the law to safeguard existing moral beliefs , no matter how peripheral they may appear to be . |
| 8 | At present an agoraphobic shag is languishing at the wildlife centre and , despite every inducement , Mrs Bolton can not persuade him even to get his feet wet . |
| 9 | If the War Wagon is forced to move into terrain it can not cross it automatically sustains D6 strength 6 hits . |
| 10 | It is essentially a melodic instrument and , though holding-notes in music of light calibre are charming in effect ( especially from or thereabouts with the exception — save in the hands of first-class players — of C ) it can not efface itself sufficiently to carry out the menial task of ‘ filling in notes of the harmony ’ in block writing . |
| 11 | We can not remember anyone ever asking us these questions and we are not sure we could have given a reasonable answer until we had been married nearly twenty years . |
| 12 | He said today : ‘ I just can not see him ever coming back , not after this length of time . |