Example sentences of "[coord] we can not [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps I should say , ‘ Another of the Black Sumatras has done it ’ — for our three sooty chickens of this exotic breed are indistinguishable from one another , and we can not be sure which of them has excelled itself . |
| 2 | We need to be certain that the revelation stems from God ; and we can not be as certain of this as we are of our reason-based knowledge of the particular truth in question . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | That is , we have chosen two parishes in our particular town — and we can not be sure how typical the parishes or the town are of the rest of the country . |
| 5 | The company has informed your two banks , where you have substantial overdrafts , I understand , that your employment with us has ceased , and we can not be regarded as guarantors . |
| 6 | However , these are only projections of current trends and we can not be certain that current levels of morbidity will be reproduced by future generations of elderly . |
| 7 | There is still a big task ahead and we can not be sure how well it can be accomplished . |
| 8 | ‘ Here we are very safe , ’ said Minch , ‘ and we can not be hurt . |
| 9 | He shows no love in his dictatorial and threatening speech in book five and we can not be expected to suppose , in our first reactions to the text , that what he is doing is altogether just . |
| 10 | But Gallop had doubts , or rather confesses an ambivalence : ‘ But we can not be sure that this radical notion of ‘ heterosexuality' ’ is not just an alibi for the comforting norm' ( pp. 127 — 8 ) . |
| 11 | This rumour may have been based on someone having witnessed some signs of a growing affection between Richard and Margaret , but we can not be sure . |
| 12 | In the modern world , we are reduced to an idealized figment of the communist imagination or we fall into secular despair , but we can not be exalted as a personal being , uniquely loved for our own sake . |
| 13 | Each answer seems to have some merit , but we can not be certain which is the definitive one . |
| 14 | But we can not be certain : all we know about Julian is what she tells us herself in her book . |
| 15 | It seems probable that a mixture of the two factors is involved , but we can not be sure that this is the case and we most certainly can not say which is more important than the other — let alone quantify ( in terms of percentages ) their relative importances . |
| 16 | Manne now acknowledges that this argument may be less persuasive than he initially thought : ‘ [ t ] hat kind of trading may have some impact , but we can not be sure a priori how much impact it will actually have , if it will have any at all . ’ |
| 17 | They may however have achieved a realization of theoretical proposals : but we can not be certain about that until further research has been undertaken into the workings of the Household . |
| 18 | But we can not be forced to subject our foreign policy to the will of other member states . |
| 19 | But we can not be certain that Gould even got as far as the river at all . |