Example sentences of "he can not [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 14 year old 's solicitor insists the magistrates had no option but to impose a supervision order , but he ca n't guarantee that he wo n't reoffend . |
| 2 | He ca n't understand that people make mistakes . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ He ca n't say that we did n't make an attempt . ’ |
| 4 | He ca n't say that it wo n't stick to him . |
| 5 | An innocent only recently unleashed into the world of international celebritydom , he ca n't comprehend that even its foremost denizens are also sometimes afflicted by star infatuation . |
| 6 | If he can not deduce that one or other party was to blame he can not send them both away empty-handed but must find that both contributed ( as happened in Baker v Market Harborough Industrial Co-operative Society , Wallace v Richards ( Leicester ) Ltd [ 1953 ] 1 WLR 1472 . |
| 7 | It can not exactly be ascribed as a right of the pupil , however , since he can not ensure that the other schools and so on ask for the record . |
| 8 | And as Hotspur turned to face him , in mild but sympathetic surprise : ‘ He can not suppose that allying himself to the duchess of Brittany will either placate or frighten the French . |
| 9 | The negative claim insists that a judge may not appeal to the law 's warrant for his decision when he can not show that conventions force him to do what he does , because the ideal is corrupted by any suggestion that past political decisions can yield rights and duties other than those dictated by convention . |
| 10 | Whatever claims for the English language he may wish to make from a supposedly technical , linguistic perspective , he can not assume that attributing ‘ objectivity ’ to it is unproblematic , or that the meaning attributed to it within that sub-culture can safely be carried over into cross-cultural correlations with the features of certain languages and grammars . |
| 11 | He can not reverse the rule of Common Law ; he can not interfere — at least directly — with proceedings in the Common Law Court ; he can not say that the legal owner is not the legal owner . |
| 12 | J. C. D. Clark has asserted that government at St James 's and Westminster was conducted " in terms which usually owed relatively little to a sense of popular pressure or wide accountability " , and although he can not deny that the electorate was growing in the period c. 1680 – 1715 , he attributes this to the attempts by the party leaders to manipulate the potential electorate for their own purposes : " The parties , in other words , created their electorate in these years ( rather than vice versa ) " . |
| 13 | An ideal utilitarian like Moore may claim to have the moral insight that promise keeping is only right or obligatory , where one can not do better or as well by breaking the promise ( taking general account of effects on human trust into account ) but he can not claim that this insight is merely into how words are properly used . |
| 14 | He can not accept that he was created by God because this would prove that his power lies in his enemy 's hands and it would be ludicrous to revolt for he would ultimately be revolting against himself . |
| 15 | He can not understand that he is waiting only a matter of moments before his desire will be satisfied . |