Example sentences of "[pron] can have no [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With regard to the vote in the House of Commons on the proposed European committee of the regions , although I can have no sympathy for anyone who votes with the Tory Government I can understand the SNP 's attempts at embracing reality and moving towards the concept of Europe of the regions . |
| 2 | No doubt if I can not break out of the convention of thinking as though I were a detached Ego contemplating unmoved both the possible consequences and my fear of them , it will seem that I can have no reason to stop smoking unless I recognize some further imperative such as ‘ Take care of your health ’ . |
| 3 | Therefore I can have no reason to believe that my experience is a reliable guide , and hence have no reason for any belief about events beyond my experience and so can not have knowledge of them . |
| 4 | Since I can have no access to the author 's intentions and thoughts , it is the latter perspective that I am interested in . |
| 5 | Christianity will deny that it condones selfishness , but it serves no purpose to promise something which can have no appeal unless it satisfies a desire , and then in another context to label that appeal the product of a baser instinct . |
| 6 | Watch them doing so and you can have no doubt that they are enjoying themselves hugely , just as human children do in a playground . |
| 7 | You can have no idea at all what the weather will be like when the plants arrive : it could be wet and the soil like a quagmire , it could be too dry , or frozen hard , and planting quite out of the question . |
| 8 | You are a very intelligent girl and you have read a great deal — no , I mean it ; one thing you ca n't say is that I have been trying to flatter you — but you do n't know everything , you do n't know the French , the real French ( though the Fourniers are quite an example of one kind ) , you can have no idea of what life among us is like , the attitudes , the demands ; if you like , the values . |
| 9 | You can have no idea how happy you 've made me . |
| 10 | You can have no idea — ’ |
| 11 | ‘ If this thing flew through space , is millennia old , is many miles in size , then you can have no idea of its power . |
| 12 | It drives us directly from foundationalism ( for it was in foundationalist terms that the argument was formulated ) to the most interesting form of solipsism , the view that you must take yourself to be the only subject of experience — in fact the subject of experience — since you can have no conception of another such . |
| 13 | You can have no objection to that . |
| 14 | Without your presence , you can have no absence , is n't that so ? ’ |
| 15 | We have already seen some such things in the area of natural philosophy , things of which , ‘ by the natural use of our faculties , we can have no knowledge at all ’ . |
| 16 | In a book , God In Us , published next month , which his refusal to withdraw from publication led to his sacking , he said : ‘ There is nothing ‘ out there ’ and if there is , we can have no knowledge of it . ’ |
| 17 | Well we can have no doubt when a moment later she turns to idolatry and assures the tree that her early care ‘ Not without song each morning and due/dew praise ’ — a little excessive for a tree , perhaps . |
| 18 | But as far as these are substantive we can " t formulate the limits , since we can have no idea of what is inconceivable . |
| 19 | An example of the latter is the argument that since we are mistaken about secondary qualities-the real world does not contain red , sweet , and hot things but only certain electromagnetic , stereo-chemical , and micromechanical properties-so we can have no faith in our direct awareness of our conscious events , states , and processes . |
| 20 | That is why I say that at impact , during a proper swing , the shaft of a club is doing nothing to help or hinder a shot — and we can have no control over it at this point . |
| 21 | Others can be more speculatively added to that nucleus , both miniatures and illuminations , but we can have no certainty that they are by her . |
| 22 | By the textuality of history , I mean to suggest , firstly , that we can have no access to a full and authentic past , a lived material existence , unmediated by the surviving textual traces of the society in question — traces whose survival we can not assume to be merely contingent but must rather presume to be at least partially consequent upon complex and subtle social processes of preservation and effacement ; and secondly , that those textual traces are themselves subject to subsequent textual mediations when they are construed as the ‘ documents ’ upon which historians ground their own texts , called histories . |
| 23 | They can have no foothold in precise writing , such as the text of a report . |
| 24 | They can have no idea of the really horrendous potential of the situation here in Santorini — the combination of all those megatons of hydrogen bombs , thermal plumes and volcanoes and earthquakes along the tectonic plate boundaries and the possibly cataclysmic results . |
| 25 | As explained before , this means that one might as well cut the big bang , and any events before it , out of the theory , because they can have no effect on what we observe . |
| 26 | My own fourth- or lower-preference vote may conceivably affect the outcome of any contest between continuing candidates of other parties : it can have no effect on the fate of candidates of my own . |
| 27 | ( 6.10 ) unc There is no point in assigning to a variable at the very end of its scope , since the value given to it can have no effect . |
| 28 | The commission has no criterion , because it can have no criterion , to decide which prices ought to go up and by how much , or vice versa . |
| 29 | ‘ Then he can have no reason to feel that you have acted contrary to his will . ’ |