Example sentences of "[coord] a [noun sg] can not " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the pressures mounted , Lenin was forced to admit that ‘ an unskilled labourer or a cook can not immediately get on with the job of state administration ’ and that only a few thousand workers throughout Russia had any experience of work in government . |
| 2 | Worse still it is the superstition that the Holy Mass or a sermon or a prayer can not be locked up on a roll of magnetic tape without being desecrated in some way . |
| 3 | A miner , a factory worker or a teacher can not continue his normal living . |
| 4 | An identity and a history can not be obliterated with a switch of a name or the stroke of a pen . |
| 5 | There 's no wind and a boat can not be in danger . |
| 6 | once a year that er a subject teacher and a pupil can not sit down an and come up with a |
| 7 | If the price has been fixed on the basis that a particular fact is correct , the acquirer will agree that the risk of it not being so , even if no one could have known , should fall on the seller , since the seller will have been paid a price which assumed that the warranty was correct ; although no doubt the seller will point out that the business is being bought as a going concern and a business can not be carried on without risk . |
| 8 | An agent can not be prohibited from taking further instructions from the principal , and a principal can not be prevented from giving instructions to the agent . |
| 9 | ‘ He was a shadow of his former self and a boxer can not go into the ring semi-fit . |
| 10 | An objection to liability in this case , advanced by Williams , is that the doctor who fails to treat has not done something ; he has merely failed to act , and an omission can not amount to an abetment . |
| 11 | For example , if an employee writes a computer program to help with his work but he is not employed as a computer programmer , his job is not to write computer programs and an employer can not necessarily assume that he owns the copyright in that particular program . |
| 12 | A full survey of the Braer will be needed before it is known for certain no oil remains , but a survey can not be carried out until the weather is suitable , which could take up to three months . |
| 13 | Wild creatures , tamed or untamed , shall be regarded as property ; but a person can not steal a wild creature not tamed nor ordinarily kept in captivity , or the carcase of any such creature , unless either it has been reduced into possession by or on behalf of another person and possession of it has not since been lost or abandoned , or another person is in course of reducing it into possession ( s.4(4) ) . |
| 14 | All three phrases describe forms of impossibility : language can say it , but a man can not do it — unless he has two selves . ) |
| 15 | Encourage regular bathing and strip washing , but a bath can not be forced . |
| 16 | The Crown is amenable to declarations but a declaration can not be awarded at the interim stage of proceedings ; so the effect of the rule is that interim relief is not available in actions against the Crown in which the remedy sought is mandamus or a declaration . |