Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [not/n't] give [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I can not give a date , we intend to proceed just as soon as we can resolve the question of the contract . |
| 2 | Mr Ritchie , who will be deputy chief executive of the group , warned : ‘ I can not give a guarantee that there will be no redundancies . |
| 3 | ‘ I can not give the money until my doubts are resolved . |
| 4 | I regret I can not give the petitioner relief . |
| 5 | Although I can not give the House any good news on that score tonight , I can say that we are considering the matter . |
| 6 | At this stage I can not give an explanation for their presence in that Peruvian cave , beyond saying that we have found something that indicates contact with the Old World . |
| 7 | I can not give an estimate of the numbers involved . |
| 8 | In Leicestershire we are trying to produce an agreed policy between each practice and cardiologist , and I would entirely agree that you can not give a blanket yes or no . |
| 9 | Discipline means having an agenda , starting and finishing the meeting when you said you would , answering the client 's questions with authority ( and if you can not give an answer , say you do not know but you will find out ) ; having your paperwork neat and easily at hand ; offering the best hospitality you can provide , such as telephones , a cup of coffee , a comfortable chair and a pad and pencil in case he did n't bring his own . |
| 10 | Because the flow of companies coming to the market is outside of MAS 's control , we can not give the acquiror any assurances as to how many opportunities will be identified within a certain timescale . |
| 11 | committee of actually emphasize , what Mr , Mr is actually saying is the ideas and the , the , the suggestions of this particular route will be incorporated in this report and should go before this committee and he can not give a preview of those ideas to anybody else |
| 12 | Foucault , as we have seen , is also criticized on the grounds that he can not give a cause for the shifts he describes , but this criticism itself begs the question insofar as it assumes a certain kind of history , which itself presupposes that there was a cause in the sense of a single uniform causality , rather than a disconnectedness in the scientific mode . |