Example sentences of "[vb -s] [that] [pers pn] can not " in BNC.
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| 1 | His parents will both cry if he writes that he can not come home . |
| 2 | He accepts that he can not make a categorical statement about innocence or guilt , but he feels that his constituent has not been given a fair hearing . |
| 3 | On the other hand , the leadership appreciates that it can not indefinitely trample upon the deeper convictions of the solid party supporters . |
| 4 | He derives from MP his holism in the theory of meaning , but insists that we can not account for language learning as an empirical activity , unless we allow that some sentences have a determinate meaning and are therefore independently ( strongly ) verifiable . |
| 5 | Yet one understands and sympathizes with the reader who urges for that word to be said ( even as he/she understands that it can not be ) , and no amount of earnest preaching that this is the way things are , that no certainties can be reached , will attenuate the sense of frustration that accompanies our contemplation of the ruins . |
| 6 | ‘ Horemheb understands that he can not touch you — yet . |
| 7 | The supervisor says that they can not wear gloves . ’ |
| 8 | The Minister says that they can not bear it , but perhaps the Duke of Edinburgh has more feeling . |
| 9 | The Labour party says that we can not argue that a single person should pay less than a family next door with several working adults . |
| 10 | The Department of National Heritage ( DNH ) says that it can not delay because otherwise exporters would fall foul of the tough penalties laid down by the Custom and Excise Management Act ( 1979 ) . |
| 11 | Humberside TEC says that it can not get employer placements , so it is not getting ’ NVG III provisions ’ and the quality of training is falling . |
| 12 | There is a popular cliche , usually uttered in the tones Stephen Potter would have called " plonking " , which says that you can not get out of computers any more than you put in . |
| 13 | The bank manager says that I can not have it until the will 's executor , my stepfather , agrees . |
| 14 | The holy spirit gives us a new prospective on life and it , it , it deepens our relationship with God , we do n't have to try and make , make a success of our new Christian life by ourselves , you know it does n't matter whether you 've been a Christian for a week , for a day , for twenty , for fifty years , if you try to do it one day by yourself you are guaranteed failure , there is no way you can do it , it does n't matter how long you 've been a Christian or how short a period , you can not do it , if the great apostle Paul , he could , he said I can do nothing of myself he said I am not sufficient , for all my learning , for all the wonderful visions I 've had , for the knowledge that God has given to me , that I 've been able to write these great apostle 's , he says that I can not do it myself , I ca n't live this Christian life myself and the tremendous thing that none of us , no matter who we are , we do not have to try to make a success of our Christian life on our own , it 's a partnership and God is the senior partner in it , he does n't expect us to do it by ourselves , listen to what the , the , that , the same apostle Paul says when he 's writing to the , the Gelation Christians , in , in chapter two , verse twenty , listen to what he says there , he says I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I know live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and delivered himself for me , he said I do n't do it by myself , why not , very simply cos he ca n't , he did n't know how to , he did n't have the power to do it he says but the life I 'm living , I live by the power of Christ who died for me , who gave himself for me and who now lives in me now by the holy spirit |
| 15 | The liquidator says that he can not say how much of the stock was supplied by our client , nor does he have any information as to whether or not the amount received from debtors includes any amount for the sale of AB stock originally supplied by our client . |
| 16 | Dr. F. says that he can not remember the exact conversation which followed : |
| 17 | They objected to an advertisement in which a jaded American factory manager complains that he can not cut his labour costs . |
| 18 | The Admissions Committee regrets that it can not consider SCOTEC , SCOTBEC and other National Certificates and Diplomas , nor nursing qualifications nor Open University credits as alternatives for all or part of the Minimum Entrance Requirements . |
| 19 | Lesley regrets that she can not enter into any direct correspondence with readers . |
| 20 | Fenton regrets that he can not give personal advice . |
| 21 | A fully paid-up member of the Donkey Breeding Society , he regrets that he can not have a stable or two in his large and well-kept garden . |
| 22 | The fact that some of the activities and functions of governmental agencies are subject to the rules of private law shows that we can not ( contrary to the tentative definition of public law suggested earlier ) answer this question solely in terms of whether we are dealing with a governmental agency . |
| 23 | Although it is repeatedly said that at common law a man must keep his fire ‘ at his peril , ’ research shows that we can not be sure that at any period in the history of the common law a man was absolutely liable for the escape of his fire . |
| 24 | If Sartre 's endeavour to ground the Marxist science of history suggests that the Hegelian totality and continuum can only work by a continual labour of excluding the partial and discontinuous , Althusser 's effort to constitute a differentiated history shows that you can not do it without a teleology . |
| 25 | This challenging new verse drama about Nelson Mandela shows that you can not imprison the mind in the past . |
| 26 | The Minister 's Department now concedes that it can not check every farm in every year . |
| 27 | Since θ for one tableau is equal to θ for the next , when increasing 0 , this ensures that we can not repeat a tableau . |
| 28 | In conclusion , it seems that we can not accept without question the dramatic increase in recorded crime as corresponding to a real increase in victimization of the same proportions . |
| 29 | It seems that we can not be the fairest of them all . |
| 30 | It seems that she can not return to Scotland fast enough . |