Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] we can not " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may have mixed feelings about scientific triumphs which have included nuclear weapons as well as electric light but we can not deny the comprehensive debt we owe to the emergence of scientific method . |
| 2 | Meanwhile there 's growing violence as I 've said and we want to end the violence but we can not wait to end the violence before we have the elections and you can imagine at what great disadvantage the democratic forces will work when they try to have elections in a violent atmosphere which is determined by the state structure . |
| 3 | We are aware of the enormous scope of some of the questions raised in this issue and we can not claim to address them all adequately . |
| 4 | ‘ We have been punished for schoolboy errors in defence and we can not afford similar slips against Hartlepool . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's a lot of money and we can not simply say we are not interested , ’ he added . |
| 6 | We need to analyse the components of the business and we can not any longer assume that they will all naturally stick together . ’ |
| 7 | When the other person is an unknown commodity and we can not predict how they will react , the greater is our requirement for the armour of indirectness . |
| 8 | This is an attempt to bring a greater level of uniformity than we have achieved so far , but we are bound by agreements made at the time of amalgamation and we can not undermine or contradict those particular decisions , and that 's why in a few cases , particularly in relation to the size of conference , there is some slight imbalance . |
| 9 | ‘ We are a peaceful community but we can not stand by and allow the people responsible to destroy the fabric of our society . |
| 10 | The G M B is a progressive union , we can support constructive change but we can not support any changes that will disenfranchise ourselves from our Party . |
| 11 | Later , in The Sense of Order , my book on decoration , I say somewhere that the shepherd boy who cut a twig from a willow tree and made a little pipe to play a tune on may have been a great genius but we can not tell . |
| 12 | ‘ Saville looked a good asset and we can not replace him . |
| 13 | It is , as Lord Renton pointed out in an address to this Society in 1990 , too much to ask that legislation should always be expressed simply ; for the complexities of modern life do not always admit of simplicity and we can not afford , in providing a code of conduct , to sacrifice certainty to simplicity . |
| 14 | The members are the lifeblood of this union and we can not afford to lose any more . |
| 15 | It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we can not sell it because it does not belong to us . |
| 16 | ‘ We are in business to make a profit and we can not do that with so few passengers . ’ |
| 17 | I would say to you that you must have a defibrillator available should your patient reperfuse on the way to hospital and develop ventricular fibrillation , because having salvaged the myocardium , it is a shame to lose the patient and we can not yet tell which patient will develop ventricular fibrillation and which will not . |
| 18 | Mink are a growing problem and we can not quite anticipate the effect they will have on the rabbit population . |
| 19 | If we do not actually receive the money within this period , our computer will automatically cancel your reservation and we can not be held responsible if that holiday is subsequently not available . |
| 20 | We have followed the trail of these people only to find that they have moved house and we can not trace them . |
| 21 | We have followed the trail of these people only to find that they have moved house and we can not trace them . |