Example sentences of "[verb] not and can " in BNC.
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| 1 | Task analysis has not and can not be reduced to a set of standardised procedures which the aspiring analyst could acquire in a formal training course . |
| 2 | Non-Christians ( if they are honest ) have to say that they do n't know how the world and life was made ; they 've got loads of ideas ( which they call ‘ theories ’ ) but they do not and can not KNOW . |
| 3 | A rose is like a dog : you do not and can not get back more than you put in and , in the same way that a dog is more rewarding than most other animals , you get more back from a rose than other flowers . |
| 4 | The first is that the five senses do not and can not give us ‘ unvarnished news ’ — information independent of the concepts used to classify it . |
| 5 | One could avoid this difficulty of having to describe what we do not and can not know only if the histories satisfy the no boundary condition : they are finite in extent but have no boundaries , edges , or singularities . |
| 6 | They insist that planners do not and can not have the scale and quality of knowledge and foresight to regulate prices and output effectively . |
| 7 | Governments should not be deluded into thinking that they can arrogate to themselves powers that they do not and can not possess . |
| 8 | One wrote : ( The pictures ) ‘ do not and can not surpass themselves . ’ |
| 9 | This detachment does not and can not remove affect . |
| 10 | However , on examination we find that the criminal process does not and can not fulfil this role . |
| 11 | The works in a collection like New Hall 's while they engage with some of these issues about women 's lack and absence from history , at the same time abrogate the very claim that women have not and can not command a semantic field which expresses their own meanings and tells their own stories . |