Example sentences of "can not [adv] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A ‘ message ’ Christology can not simply consist in a message , a message which exists independently of the person who preached it . |
| 2 | 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 … . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You can not just hop on a train in Sweden , but must think about it carefully and purchase a ticket in advance . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We can not therefore appeal to a widely accepted body of theory , and much of the discussion is qualitative in nature . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | However , one can not really argue with a mathematical theorem . |
| 9 | As a consequence of rule 12 an order for costs can not now lead to a taxation other than on a standard basis or indemnity basis . |
| 10 | Now look what had happened to the place , and I play you that because , maybe we shall never ever hear that again , because Yugoslavia can not now exist as a State . |
| 11 | For instance , I can not actively engage with a book unless I am mentally free to give myself to it — if my mind is on other practical affairs while I am reading or if my reading competence is inadequate then I shall not be able to submit to the experience . |
| 12 | Thus ‘ held with the intention ’ came to be construed in a sense which the language of Parliament can not possibly bear as a matter of ordinary sense and grammar , as embracing not only material held by the crooked solicitor but material held without any intention on the part of the holder but infected , either at the time of its creation or , seemingly , at any subsequent time , by an intention on the part of any person , whether the client entitled to it or anyone else , to use it for furthering some criminal purpose . |
| 13 | I can not possibly explain to a lay audience the techniques I used to study these genes — although I can tell you they involved the use of a type of radio microscope , and considerable extremely complex computer work — the programming alone involved almost a year 's work . |
| 14 | Beejay always seems to spot the object in the hedge that he can not possibly pass without a protect , just as I hear the roar of a fast-moving car at our rear . |