Example sentences of "[coord] can not [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been a problem on some of the new designs of Sprinter and at present , it is often quite uncertain whether one can or can not travel with a cycle on specific journeys , which discourages cyclists from using rail at all . |
| 2 | It is reassuring for someone to know that if they jump at shadows or can not sleep after an accident or a crime , it is part of a natural process and that they will get over it . |
| 3 | Those who make a mistake , or can not think of a word beginning with their letter , drop out . |
| 4 | My dream is achievable because all we have to do is stop doing some of the things we are already doing : stop using the productive forces we have developed to create disabilities through warfare , environmental pollution and industrial accidents ; stop creating disabilities through poverty by using our vast wealth not in pursuit of capital accumulation and profit , but in ensuring that we all have the necessities to sustain material life ; and stop judging and treating people on the basis of the contribution they can or can not make to the development and operation of these productive forces . |
| 5 | If she/he does not or can not succeed in forming friendships , she/he will become very lonely indeed , no longer belonging entirely to the family , and unable to belong in any real sense to the school and the peer groups within it . |
| 6 | Although you may not want to go on a course , or can not afford to , it is a good idea to ask a friend or relative you feel comfortable with to play the part of the interviewer and let you have a dummy run . |
| 7 | The argument against so doing is that the institutions will wish to disseminate the proceeds of the flotation to their various funds and can not cater for contingent liabilities such as warranty claims . |
| 8 | The Opposition do not say where they stand , can not say where they stand and can not admit to the jobs that would be lost if their policy were carried out . |
| 9 | People expect risks they did not ask for and can not control to be much lower -by 10 or 100 times — than those which they run willingly . |
| 10 | Birds range from the most unspecialized , which regularly take other foods besides fruits and can not subsist on fruit alone , to the most specialized , absolutely reliant on the fruit . |
| 11 | However , if good and this property are simply the same thing , then the judgement that what has this property is good is just a tautology , and can not serve as the kind of important value judgement it is meant to be . |
| 12 | The starting point is the contention that experience is not neutral , uninterpreted fact and can not serve as an independent umpire of what theories it is rational to accept . |
| 13 | Most people in Roi Et have no money to deposit and can not borrow from banks because they lack collateral . |
| 14 | But the effect of the policy , as the American Bar Association pointed out in a recent report , is that the country 's prisons are filled not only with drug-handlers but also with drug-takers , and can not cope with the numbers . |
| 15 | But so long as no resources used in ‘ selling ’ or in producing are owned monopolistically , we are forced to conclude that this activity is essentially competitive and can not result in any kind of monopolistic control over production or any impairment of the competitive process . |
| 16 | The other reason most often given for government ownership is that government needs a voice of its own and can not rely on the privately owned press . |
| 17 | I am told there are two sisters who dwell under one roof , and can not speak to one another , for the one is a Free Churcher and the other is a Baptist ; and that one gave to the other cause of great offence , having put cream in the tea of the other when such kind office was not desired . |
| 18 | But they are banned from party membership and can not vote for the party at election time . |
| 19 | Molecular hydrogen is rather fragile ( in interstellar terms ) , and is destroyed by shock waves with velocities greater than about 50 km s -1 and can not exist behind the leading shock . |
| 20 | ‘ What I find unbearable and can not brook as leader is those who , after we make that decision , will deviate and not comply with our decision , ’ he said . |
| 21 | This is a problem for plants because they already have fewer daylight hours in which to manufacture their food , and can not grow at all if the temperature falls below 6 degrees Celsius . |
| 22 | In my 25 years of watching international rugby I have seen many incidents of violence and can not think of any country that is blameless . |
| 23 | This says that , if both are playing pessimistically , player I is receiving and can not improve on this , so he has no incentive to change his strategy . |
| 24 | It is an opportunity for the field man to educate people into what they can and can not discharge into the river , and it contributes to a network of relationships which creates a means of learning about pollutions shortly after they occur . |
| 25 | Knocked out of Europe in the first few rounds , most Scottish footballers are readily available for mid-week court cases , and can not draw on Jimmy Johnstone 's range of excuses . |
| 26 | It is still relatively expensive and can not go into subjects in depth in the same way as print , but has the advantage of being easy to watch , in an idiom or genre which is very familiar to most people , and it can be viewed by groups of staff simultaneously . |
| 27 | If you are ill and can not go to work , you must let your manager know as soon as possible . |
| 28 | Bearing in mind what the patient can and can not do for himself , the nursing interventions to achieve the set goals can then be selected according to local circumstances and available resources . |
| 29 | The FDA can not tell American surgeons what they can and can not do to their customers . |
| 30 | As a copyright owner you have a legal right to prevent unauthorised copying of your work and as a practising artist you need to be aware of what you can and can not do with regard to using ‘ second-source ’ material as ideas for your own work . |