Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | So we can not have a strategy for teacher development any more than a teacher can have a strategy for child development . |
| 32 | Unfortunately , encyclopaedias are very expensive to compile and publish so one can not hope for a new edition every year and the information in them is thus often very dated . |
| 33 | So one can not say that grapheme-phoneme conversion is the way non-words are read aloud . |
| 34 | On grounds of theory alone we can not tell which effect will be the stronger , i.e. whether higher taxes on income will raise or lower the time devoted to work rather than leisure ( where , of course , the worker has some choice ) . |
| 35 | It is the occupational disease of widowhood , Alida had long ago decided , they are none of them self-sufficient , they have been cushioned for so long they can not keep silent or rely upon themselves . |
| 36 | Perhaps they can not see potential at a ground shorn of its wooden stands and surrounded by deprivation . |
| 37 | Obviously they can not raise all the issues connected with insider evaluation so other examples are drawn on , but in less detail , in the final ‘ Issues ’ section of this chapter . |
| 38 | Obviously they can not weigh up the comparative cost of some type of credit which is beyond their ken . |
| 39 | The most modern interferometers can obtain spectra in shorter times , but even so they can not deal with samples that decay in seconds , let alone milli- , micro- or nanoseconds . |
| 40 | Dr Howe added : ‘ He is not conscious and so he can not suffer . ’ |
| 41 | You do not think like a civilised man , although your behaviour has become civilised , and so he can not ascribe to your actions motives which are suspect — or not according to his understanding . ’ |
| 42 | If so he can not have been there long , for in 1589 he was killed under somewhat suspicious circumstances . |
| 43 | So he can not cast off the argument from error and rely entirely on the conditional theory to show that K aq is here false . |
| 44 | But it can not treat gender as a theoretical or methodological category , that might structure its own tools and methods of inquiry , and so it can not examine its own discourse for masculine bias . |
| 45 | A cat has no concept of its own death and so it can not anticipate it , no matter how ill it feels . |
| 46 | They are responsible about their productive processes and they are responsible about the design of car engines and we are told that the market will find ways to deal with this , but surely it can not , for after all the market is mindless , so it can not take into account either the future or the needs and wishes of people other than those who have the purchasing power for immediate consumption . |
| 47 | Somehow I can not see that changing . |
| 48 | I can not I can not do I can not differentiate that I 'll tell you what I could do I 'd have no problem at all if you gave me something Y equals U squared no problem |
| 49 | Whether or not the rough parch at 85mph ( or 2500rpm on the revcounter ) was peculiar to the test car or not I can not say ; if it is common to all , it is very disappointing , and the fact that you can drive through it is of little compensation since at higher speeds there is enough wind roar for two cars . |
| 50 | For ninthly you can not wait to see him again . |
| 51 | ‘ Even if she was unaware of what she was signing , and the bank did not take adequate steps to explain the effect of her signature , nevertheless she can not succeed without proof of agency . |
| 52 | Even if she was unaware of what she was signing , and the bank did not take adequate steps to explain the effect of her signature , nevertheless she can not succeed without proof of agency . |
| 53 | At the singularities , the equations of physics can not be defined ; thus one can not predict what will happen . |
| 54 | Thus we can not rely solely on a single source , that is , the evidence given by one person . |
| 55 | Electron microscopy of intestinal biopsies was not done in our study , thus we can not rule out the possibility that microsporidia were present . |
| 56 | Although this proposition is unlikely ever to be falsified , nevertheless one can not maintain that it can not in principle be false . |
| 57 | As to whether change is necessary or not one can not help pay some regard of that phenomenon of the post war world , Japan : If time travel was a fact and it was possible to transport someone from the middle of the social scale of Victorian Britain to the present time , he would think a revolution had taken place ; but the basic ground rules of social life and commerce would shortly become comprehensible to him . |
| 58 | Whether we are purely material or not we can not know ; but being so would not be inconsistent with immortality , and we have the guarantee of revelation that we are , in fact , immortal . |
| 59 | Thus he can not contribute to a reallocation of resources or products that will overcome inefficiencies and lack of coordination generated by market ignorance , since no such ignorance and lack of coordination exist in equilibrium . [ … ] |
| 60 | The Small Cloud is very obvious with the naked eye , and binoculars show it well , though admittedly it can not rival the splendour of the Large Cloud ; it has no well-defined shape , but is easy to resolve , at least in part . |