Example sentences of "[conj] can not [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been a problem on some of the new designs of Sprinter and at present , it is often quite uncertain whether one can or can not travel with a cycle on specific journeys , which discourages cyclists from using rail at all . |
| 2 | It is reassuring for someone to know that if they jump at shadows or can not sleep after an accident or a crime , it is part of a natural process and that they will get over it . |
| 3 | Those who make a mistake , or can not think of a word beginning with their letter , drop out . |
| 4 | My dream is achievable because all we have to do is stop doing some of the things we are already doing : stop using the productive forces we have developed to create disabilities through warfare , environmental pollution and industrial accidents ; stop creating disabilities through poverty by using our vast wealth not in pursuit of capital accumulation and profit , but in ensuring that we all have the necessities to sustain material life ; and stop judging and treating people on the basis of the contribution they can or can not make to the development and operation of these productive forces . |
| 5 | If she/he does not or can not succeed in forming friendships , she/he will become very lonely indeed , no longer belonging entirely to the family , and unable to belong in any real sense to the school and the peer groups within it . |
| 6 | Although you may not want to go on a course , or can not afford to , it is a good idea to ask a friend or relative you feel comfortable with to play the part of the interviewer and let you have a dummy run . |
| 7 | Not only does it hamstring itself by trying to please all nations , it also attempts to appeal to a mythical European consciousness that can not exist in the continent whose countries have spent centuries ever more jealously defining their national characteristics . |
| 8 | A system that can not generalise between task domains can not be intelligent . |
| 9 | When a condition is diagnosed that can not benefit from chiropractic , such as acute inflammatory disease or rheumatoid arthritis , your chiropractor will refer you elsewhere . |
| 10 | Lakes that owe their volume to a balance between inflowing and outflowing water may change radically between seasons , almost draining in winter when the inflow slows down , and overflowing when summer melt brings in water that can not escape through still-frozen outlets . |
| 11 | In addition to the mycoplasma , Taylor-Robinson thinks he may have found a new anaerobic bacterium ( one that can not live in the presence of oxygen ) which also seems to be associated with NGU . |
| 12 | Already there are sawmills that can not operate at full capacity because of wood shortages . |
| 13 | For example , in the word ‘ father ’ the second syllable , which is weak , is shorter than the first , is less loud and has a vowel that can not occur in strong syllables . |
| 14 | Hungry for food , relentless in pursuit of it and capable of killing most creatures that can not run from them , they terrorise the bush . |
| 15 | The argument against so doing is that the institutions will wish to disseminate the proceeds of the flotation to their various funds and can not cater for contingent liabilities such as warranty claims . |
| 16 | The Opposition do not say where they stand , can not say where they stand and can not admit to the jobs that would be lost if their policy were carried out . |
| 17 | People expect risks they did not ask for and can not control to be much lower -by 10 or 100 times — than those which they run willingly . |
| 18 | Birds range from the most unspecialized , which regularly take other foods besides fruits and can not subsist on fruit alone , to the most specialized , absolutely reliant on the fruit . |
| 19 | However , if good and this property are simply the same thing , then the judgement that what has this property is good is just a tautology , and can not serve as the kind of important value judgement it is meant to be . |
| 20 | The starting point is the contention that experience is not neutral , uninterpreted fact and can not serve as an independent umpire of what theories it is rational to accept . |
| 21 | Most people in Roi Et have no money to deposit and can not borrow from banks because they lack collateral . |
| 22 | But the effect of the policy , as the American Bar Association pointed out in a recent report , is that the country 's prisons are filled not only with drug-handlers but also with drug-takers , and can not cope with the numbers . |
| 23 | But so long as no resources used in ‘ selling ’ or in producing are owned monopolistically , we are forced to conclude that this activity is essentially competitive and can not result in any kind of monopolistic control over production or any impairment of the competitive process . |
| 24 | The other reason most often given for government ownership is that government needs a voice of its own and can not rely on the privately owned press . |
| 25 | I am told there are two sisters who dwell under one roof , and can not speak to one another , for the one is a Free Churcher and the other is a Baptist ; and that one gave to the other cause of great offence , having put cream in the tea of the other when such kind office was not desired . |
| 26 | But they are banned from party membership and can not vote for the party at election time . |
| 27 | Molecular hydrogen is rather fragile ( in interstellar terms ) , and is destroyed by shock waves with velocities greater than about 50 km s -1 and can not exist behind the leading shock . |
| 28 | ‘ What I find unbearable and can not brook as leader is those who , after we make that decision , will deviate and not comply with our decision , ’ he said . |
| 29 | This is a problem for plants because they already have fewer daylight hours in which to manufacture their food , and can not grow at all if the temperature falls below 6 degrees Celsius . |
| 30 | In my 25 years of watching international rugby I have seen many incidents of violence and can not think of any country that is blameless . |