Example sentences of "[pron] can not give [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I give him credit for that , although I can not give much credit to his policy of favouring a 50 per cent . |
| 2 | ‘ I can not give that . |
| 3 | I can not give any estimate of its arrival . |
| 4 | I welcome the commitment that has been shown by the head of the governing body , but I can not give any hint of the decision that I will be taking by the end of February . |
| 5 | ‘ I can not give any indication on which companies we are meeting but suffice it to say that one is trade and the other two venture . |
| 6 | The recognition that we can not give complete holist explanations of social phenomena does not undermine the centrality of the intuition to which the doctrine , in its various forms , is a response : the sense that many properties of individuals , whether tastes , aspirations , beliefs , expectations or habits , are to an over-whelming extent formed by society . |
| 7 | As teachers … we can not give this faculty to those who do not already possess it , as a natural endowment , in the degree which literary criticism demands . |
| 8 | International mail involves the postal services of other countries as well as our own , so we can not give precise service standards . |
| 9 | If Euclidean space-time stretches back to infinite imaginary time , or else starts at a singularity in imaginary time , we have the same problem as in the classical theory of specifying the initial state of the universe : God may know how the universe began , but we can not give any particular reason for thinking it began one way rather than another . |
| 10 | The objection involves the feeling or perhaps the conviction that we can never state or explicitly describe such a thing as a causal circumstance is said to be , which is to say that we can not do something like give a complete enumeration of its elements : we can not give particular or individuating descriptions of all of them . |
| 11 | One thing to be said of that is that it does not at all follow , from the fact that we can not give particular descriptions of items that fall within a set , that we can not satisfactorily conceive of and describe the set . |
| 12 | Note that the transmitter control will only allow you to reduce the response ; it can not give more throw than the mechanical linkage will allow . |
| 13 | Fenton regrets that he can not give personal advice . |