Example sentences of "[Wh pn] can [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am a twenty seven year old woman who ca n't swim . |
| 2 | Well , what you do is you go to your nearest leisure centre and ask if you could do the training classes for the adults who ca n't sa , who ca n't swim yet . |
| 3 | There are players now valued in the £2m bracket who ca n't hold a candle to Ian in terms of ability and George Graham must be thinking he has bought himself a star on the cheap . |
| 4 | These so-called friends are usually overweight , failed-dieters who ca n't bear to see you succeeding . |
| 5 | Indeed , the belief that Taylor is the sort of manager who ca n't bear talent or personality to overshadow himself is now being proved wrong by the way he is treating Gascoigne . |
| 6 | Are you the sort who ca n't bear to lose an argument , or to be proved wrong ; or do you mentally creep away from the conflict and experience all its discomfort within yourself . |
| 7 | Here 's a man who 's very good-looking , whose very name is enough to get women in an audience squealing with delight but who ca n't bear the thought of being a sex symbol . |
| 8 | Villages are crippled by people who ca n't bear to have the veil torn from their fantasy of idyllic retirement . ’ |
| 9 | I know one woman who ca n't bear to throw away the bed in which her children were born ! |
| 10 | The lighting cameraman may have been going through a bad patch , or simply been driven crazy by the sort of director who ca n't make up their mind about anything . |
| 11 | ‘ This is Hills Brothers 50–50 , 50 per cent caffeine , for people who ca n't make up their minds , ’ he says , rinsing out a couple of mugs . |
| 12 | On weekdays , however , Sue is prepared to stay open for a customer who ca n't make it by 4.30pm provided they call to let her know they are coming ! |
| 13 | There are a lot of players at the moment who ca n't make the step from club to international rugby ’ . |
| 14 | For those of us who ca n't make Goodison I think R5 has full commentary on the match … infact they interviewed Wilko last night who was saying that he had n't thought about whether or not anyone could catch Scum , but he was only interested in how many points we could get ‘ it 's like the Grand National ’ , he said , ‘ plenty of favourites fall the seconf time round ’ . |
| 15 | I wo n't be in on Monday so people will have to come in on Monday somebody will have to come in on Monday , go to the room specified which I have n't agreed yet and then put it on and then bring it back again to so people who ca n't make it today , that that 's the alternative arrangement but I 'll tell you more when I come back at eleven o'clock , okay ? |
| 16 | So certain genes enables us to do just that , because knowing the gene enables us to manufacture the product which the gene should make normally in people , and in those people who ca n't make it normally , then you can supply the defective product to them . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , well — to think there are people in this world who ca n't guess how that will end . |
| 18 | Old mouth McEnroe , who ca n't stop himself from foully abusing anyone in authority with whom he disagrees . |
| 19 | Well , psychiatrists now say that people who ca n't stop having sex need help just as much as alcoholics or drug addicts . |
| 20 | ‘ Who 's a genius with an IQ of 60 ? ’ and ‘ Where is the queen who ca n't dress ? ’ |
| 21 | Helen Brown reports on the ones who ca n't cope . |
| 22 | Those who ca n't cope would be better employed breeding amoebae . |
| 23 | Upper-class types who ca n't cope are thinner on the ground than they were , but in an exalted sort of way William Waldegrave is one of them . |
| 24 | But basically I think most courses now , not sure there 's actually a legal requirement , I do n't think it is , but most of them want a at least a year 's sort of full time experience in erm , you know , d dealing with underprivileged people really and their problems and people who ca n't cope for one reason or another , and how er y you can er er sort of help them and what sort of relationship you can build with them and so on , and how |
| 25 | Now what do you need to know , you know , about yourself or about how you relate to particular groups of , of underprivileged erm or er you know inadequate people , I mean people who ca n't cope in various ways , particular erm areas , I mean age groups or particular forms of erm er maybe disability er or handicap or whatever , |
| 26 | He was like a schoolboy , never mind that I was behaving like a schoolgirl , I can not stand a man who ca n't cope with me … |
| 27 | a celestial policeman ; 2. an absentee landlord ; 3. a magician ; 4. a being greater than anything we can possibly think of ; 5. an old man on a cloud ; 6. light which gives life ; 7. the conclusion of a mathematical theorem ; 8. the chairman of a rather boring harp-playing assembly ; 9. a presence who is loving and just ; 10. a crutch for people who ca n't cope ; 11. an all-powerful dictator ; 12. a character in a fairy-story ; 13. a power that is either evil or indifferent to suffering ; 14. a heavenly Santa Claus ; 15. a king who is just and holy ; 16. electricity which is invisible and powerful , useful but dangerous ; 17. a slot-machine whom you can approach with a coin and get out what you want ; 18. the ground without which nothing in this world could exist . |
| 28 | for me to have er I I tell you what I do get concerned about Lynda is somebody who ca n't spell their first name . |
| 29 | Now frankly , an admiral who does n't pick his own bombing targets and a broker who ca n't choose his own investments do n't seem as oppressed to me as a clerk who is n't allowed to press her own return key . |
| 30 | Perhaps you still think I 'm merely being vengeful towards a dead scholar who ca n't answer for herself . |