Example sentences of "[noun sg] but 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 a peaceful community but we can not stand by and allow the people responsible to destroy the fabric of our society . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |