Example sentences of "and [pron] can [not/n't] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One of the safeguards to individuals against libel is the remedy by action ; and I can not conceive a proposition more dangerous than this , that because a company is incorporated they have no appeal to a court of justice if they are libelled . |
| 2 | ‘ One of the safeguards to individuals against libel is the remedy by action ; and I can not conceive a proposition more dangerous than this , that because a company is incorporated they have no appeal to a court of justice if they are libelled . |
| 3 | I do n't know — nobody does , and I can not resist a smile of despair every time I see one of those gardening page headlines that advise us to ‘ prune those roses now ’ and such like . |
| 4 | As I said before , Klemperer 's conducting invariably fuelled controversy , and I can not imagine a more controversial performance than his 1968 recording of Mahler 's Seventh Symphony , which comes in a boxed set with the appropriate coupling of Klemperer 's own Second Symphony and his Seventh String Quartet , the latter performed by the Philharmonia Quartet ( ) . |
| 5 | You will not know the precise balance until you have prepared a completion statement , and you can not prepare a completion statement until you have worked out your own firm 's costs and disbursements ; and indeed until you have taken into account the costs and additional fees or charges that may be relevant to the particular transaction . |
| 6 | Since most university students work from books to hand and find it impracticable to wait for inter-library loan requests — and you can not browse an inter-library loan book before it arrives , any more than you can browse the contents of books in the memory of an ‘ on-line ’ catalogue and not on a shelf in front of you — the result is a major diminution of standards . |
| 7 | It certainly does when it is hot in Pinjarra and you can not get a lift . |
| 8 | And you can not have a situation where the the sort of almost the norm is , Any difficult decision the government is gon na have to take , there 'll be a dozen colleagues who say , not for us . |
| 9 | Her memory is extremely poor and she can not sustain a normal conversation . |
| 10 | At this point , the iteration has given no indication that a double root is involved ; however , this becomes apparent when we seek the row vector corresponding to cs : for all first minors of 1I — A vanish and we can not find a unique row vector . |
| 11 | Certainly , I have known some undergraduates who would rise brilliantly to such a challenge ; but they are an exception , and one can not base a course on what would suit the exceptional student , much as one would like to . |
| 12 | ‘ Young people become homeless because they can not get a job and they can not get a job because they have not had a good education . ’ |
| 13 | There is a difficult Catch-22 situation because people can not get a job until they have housing and they can not get a mortgage until they have a job . |
| 14 | committee of actually emphasize , what Mr , Mr is actually saying is the ideas and the , the , the suggestions of this particular route will be incorporated in this report and should go before this committee and he can not give a preview of those ideas to anybody else |
| 15 | I mean he is out of work and he can not get a job . |
| 16 | However , the interview is his responsibility and he can not allow a silence to last for too long . |
| 17 | An unincorporated association has no legal personality of its own to protect , and it can not bring a " representative action " on behalf of all its members . |
| 18 | and it can not produce an alternative to a defective police case . |