Example sentences of "[noun sg] can [not/n't] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mira can not enter Phillario 's world on the strength of her intellect , because her features are too plain ; although Corydon will not attack her appearance , he has no appreciation of her intellect since he believes that plays are wicked . |
| 2 | At present English procedure only permits representative actions , whereby members of a group must have the same interest in the same proceedings ; the action can not seek damages , but only some other form of relief . |
| 3 | He also sees that the Western-led coalition can not ensure peace or a new order because it ‘ is not willing to address ’ the very factors such as dictatorship and maldistribution of wealth and power which led to war in the first place . |
| 4 | Law Report : Representative defendant can not claim contribution — Choudhury v Hussain . |
| 5 | TCGA 1992 , s69(1) deems the trust to be a person who is not resident in the United Kingdom ; 3. the trust is therefore outside the UK capital gains tax regime and the Revenue can not collect tax on capital payments under TCGA 1992 , s87(4) . |
| 6 | The trust is therefore outside the general UK capital gains tax regime ( TCGA 1992 , s69 ) and the Revenue can not charge tax on capital payments under TCGA 1992 , s87 . |
| 7 | It is over-stimulation ; the mind can not find peace and quiet . |
| 8 | His own answer to it was in some ways remarkably similar to those he attacked , for it added up to this : historical study can not bring Jesus down to our own time ; rather , it reveals his strangeness to us , and he loses all colour and significance if we attempt to tear him out of his own historical and religious setting in late Judaism . |
| 9 | Historical study can not make place for any such absoluteness , let alone demonstrate it . |
| 10 | This study can not provide data to confirm or refute this hypothesis , however . |
| 11 | The past three months have seen almost daily developments , and a 15-minute speech and 15-minute reply can not do justice to the huge amount of information that must be shared and analysed . |
| 12 | It must be stressed that although a natural condition can not give rise to liability under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher it may still constitute a nuisance for which an occupier may be liable if he has knowledge or means of knowledge of its existence and if it is reasonable to require him to take the necessary steps to abate it . |
| 13 | Er , the present situation is that there 's complex erm , arrangements for the exercise of votes , basically unanimity is required and in those circumstances we as a shareholder can not exercise material influence which is a necessary pre-condition for equity accounting . |
| 14 | A general term can not give rise to zeugma in this way : |
| 15 | 1.3 The employee 's duty not to make preparations in order to compete with his employer after he has left or to enable another to do so The employee can not make preparations during his employment , either during the working day or in his spare time , with a view to competing with his employer once his employment is over if such preparation may have a material effect on his employer 's business . |
| 16 | If you decided on the first day of the PIW you could not pay the SSP or that you had to stop paying SSP during the PIW , you employee can not get SSP now . |
| 17 | If it is less than the level at which NI contributions must be paid , your employee can not get SSP . |
| 18 | If it is less than the lower earnings limit which applied in the QW , your employee can not get SMP . |
| 19 | Although sociologists try to go beyond working within what they see as a narrow ‘ social problem ’ framework , this does not mean that their research can not provide insights and suggestions potentially relevant to practitioners and policy-makers . |
| 20 | For me , a publicly sited work can not ignore questions of responsibility and accountability : Who am I addressing ? |
| 21 | Persons who do not understand the nature of the act can not give consent . |
| 22 | If the private sector can not organize charges for the marginal externalities pollution creates , perhaps the government can ? |
| 23 | A fourth bad approach is to claim that the law can not stop research or whatever is under discussion , so why try ? |
| 24 | Pro-life groups complain that the protocol , which says EC law can not affect Ireland 's anti-abortion law , is too lax . |
| 25 | Law can not tell people how to behave in their own homes ; they will not obey ; such rules are unenforceable because the necessary information is unobtainable , unless you put ‘ a spy under the bed ’ . |
| 26 | But the essential precondition for order is economic justice and welfare , without which moral socialization can not take root as other than fragile coercion . |
| 27 | ( 2 ) The loans must be to defray expenditure incurred in acquiring ordinary share capital of a close company complying with s13A(2) as described above , or in lending to such a close company where the money loaned is used wholly and exclusively for the purpose of its business or the business of any of its associated companies provided the latter are also close companies satisfying the conditions of s13A(2). ( 3 ) When interest is paid on the manager 's loan , Newco must continue to comply with s13A(2) — this means it must continue to satisfy the relevant purpose test rather than that it should continue to remain a close company ; in the case of a purchase of shares in Target , the reason why Newco should be close after the institutions commit to invest is to ensure that institutions and management can invest at the same time and that , at that time , Newco is both close and satisfies the relevant purpose test , ie already controls Target ; management can not commit Newco to acquiring Target until the institutions have committed to funding Newco , and once they have so committed the institutions are likely to control Newco under s416 , so a structure is needed whereby management also controls Newco at this point . |
| 28 | The child can not make sense of the world without pattern , without events that repeat . |
| 29 | A participant in a game adopts a role based on his conception of others ' roles , what George Herbert Mead ( 1934 ) calls the ‘ generalised other ’ : a child can not play hide-and-seek unless in ‘ hiding ’ he understands the function of the ‘ seeker ’ . |
| 30 | Experts explain that exercise can not cause heart disease or a tendency to accumulate cholesterol , both of which are genetically determined characteristics and can not be ‘ brought on ’ by external factors . |