Example sentences of "[noun pl] can not do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to help her with things — you know , things that little kids ca n't do too well , like cutting up their food and opening doors and stuff like that . |
| 2 | If she or her children return before the ashes become cold , it becomes again an ahi-ka , but there is a difference of opinion whether the grandchildren can recover their rights in that way , but there is no doubt that the great grandchildren can not do so unless they are expressly invited and welcomed by the tribe . " |
| 3 | Housing is inefficiently heated because volume of construction is a more important planning indicator than fuel efficiency , not because the Soviets can not do better . |
| 4 | Landowners ca n't do exactly what they want for a start , and if they intend to do anything which might damage the site they have to inform the Nature Conservancy Council in writing and try to work out a compromise . |
| 5 | That is to say , it tended to focus on what children can not do rather than what they can do , and in ( rightly ) attending to their problems it underplayed or ignored their potential . |
| 6 | We can stand on our own two feet ; deep mines can not do so . ’ |