Example sentences of "[conj] can not [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when the chairperson does not like it , or can not understand it — or never sees your advertising — and your advertising is designed to appeal ( say ) to factory supervisors or teenagers , you can treat this judgement with the appropriate degree of ( polite ) contempt . |
| 2 | It may be a weak government and , although formally invested with state power , does not or can not use it . |
| 3 | Seals have almost spherical lenses and can not flatten them enough to see far through the air . |
| 4 | If , however , your parent thinks that some mistake has been made and can not sort it out , you can easily contact the pension fund headquarters on his or her behalf and ask for details of how the amount has been arrived at . |
| 5 | The first is that the five senses do not and can not give us ‘ unvarnished news ’ — information independent of the concepts used to classify it . |
| 6 | It stares at the windowlight and can not make it out . |
| 7 | But you should remember that a regiment 's champion is part of his unit and can not leave it . |
| 8 | Champions always fight with their regiment and can not leave it . |
| 9 | Remember that a regiment 's champion is part of his unit and can not leave it . |
| 10 | Champions always fight with their regiment and can not leave it . |
| 11 | If you think you might want to take an HIV antibody test to find out if you are infected , it is important to know what the test can and can not tell you . |
| 12 | The parties to the original position have no knowledge of their moral beliefs because they have as yet no moral beliefs and because whatever moral beliefs they should have depend on the outcome of their deliberations in the original position and can not affect it . |
| 13 | However , the optical properties of a simple calcite lens in contact with water are such that it transmits light in a diffused way and can not bring it to a sharply focused point . |
| 14 | Recognise in time , perhaps only from the despair of repeated failure , that you yourself did not cause the disease , can not control it and can not cure it and that in time you may need to surrender the fight and hand over the care of the sufferer 's addictive disease to his or her own appropriate Anonymous Fellowship . |
| 15 | If you do not have scales and can not afford them , try to borrow some , or find your nearest public scales and visit them as often as you can . |
| 16 | I have searched high and low and can not find them I have sent others out , two dozen , also seeking , and they can not find them either . |
| 17 | I have not the sum to hand , and can not raise it even by loan . |
| 18 | Simply expressed , there is no point in talking politics to the powerful if you are powerless and can not force them to listen and act on what you have to say . |
| 19 | I use the reel for most of my float fishing and a lot of bomb/small feeder work and can not fault it . |
| 20 | Breaks my heart to part with them but I am going to live abroad and can not take them with me . |
| 21 | The Storys leave for Rome at the end of this month and can not take him with them . |
| 22 | The one time you see it is when a woman takes her clothes off and can not look you in the eyes ( as I could n't then ) . |
| 23 | I reach up and bolt the door , which I am not to , but can not control it for once . |
| 24 | The courts recognise these limitations , which are inherent in any system of taking evidence abroad ahead of the trial , but can not regard them as a sufficient objection to the making of the order . |
| 25 | The Tongue-tied , a type that you will occasionally meet , has some very good ideas but can not express them clearly . |
| 26 | They will , they say , try to find her another post as a neo-natologist in the region , but can not guarantee her one . |
| 27 | I seek , but can not find her . |
| 28 | But there is something else too : a girl becoming a woman , discovering love , a girl who wants to choose an absolute , but can not find it . |
| 29 | I have searched through Seaby 's Roman Coins and Their Values but can not find it , neither can I identify some bronzes in my collection . |
| 30 | Sequent is aiming the product at users that want to be Teradata owners but can not afford it . |