Example sentences of "can not [verb] that they " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're young and you 're still maintaining them when you 're alive you ca n't pretend that they do n't exist when the will comes along . |
| 2 | Is n't exactly what 's happening , I mean what , what 's happening is that if they ri erm increase rents or whatever , the people who , who ca n't pay that they get together and they demonstrate |
| 3 | I think it 's a stigma that a lot of men feel they ca n't show that they 're depressed or they 've got a problem so they 'll pick up a ph , a phone . |
| 4 | I ca n't see that they can afford to be a high profile company ? |
| 5 | Havant in the UK — which does make disk drives ; Jrfalla , making printers in Sweden ; Valencia , making low-end ES/9000s in Spain , and at least a part of the big Montpelier mainframe and chips complex in France , are being re-classified as autonomous business units under their own managements , free to seek work outside as well as where they can from within IBM , but they are under notice that if they ca n't demonstrate that they can operate profitably in 12 months , they will be closed . |
| 6 | er , I , I ca n't say that they became inaccurate , they may well have been entirely accurate for the whole of the period from when they were first produced through to September nineteen eighty six |
| 7 | You ca n't believe that they can still say it , having had this conversation six hundred times . |
| 8 | Let us hope then that England produce a performance of such mind-bending awfulness in order to succumb to this dodgy outfit , who probably ca n't believe that they are still in with a shout , and may thus fool themselves into believing that this is their year … at least until they hear the result from Turkey . |
| 9 | If you can manage to get one photo of a gunmen in all that crowd , how many more were there they did n't get a photo of you know , erm , so that 's bull shit for a start the said that they only fired upon identified targets , going on motorbikes , and erm , I mean the thing is , the para 's are a highly disciplined , highly trained apparently at a you were n't even allowed to go out there without at least five years experience yeah , they were soldiers , they need and I ca n't believe that they negligibly you know , cos there was women and children there , and nearly all of them had wives and kids , you know , and there was reports from like the Irish saying oh yeah , they were mixing body er , care and body people and fucking laughing and joking over dead bodies and my old man said yeah if you just , if you just seen something drop most people will laugh and joke about it , you know I do n't know if you 've ever meet this sort of , old man , but the service sort of a , a unique sense of they can laugh at anything , you know they can see somebody with its guts put out in front of them and they 'll fucking crack out about it , its the only way they can stop themselves cracking up , or fucking crying sort of thing . |
| 10 | At the same time , it is argued , the increasing demand for competitively gained qualifications means that children from middle-class families can not assume that they will avoid downward mobility . |
| 11 | Since standard English and Irish English syntactic forms do not mark the same temporal and aspectual distinctions , we can not assume that they are embedded in the same underlying grammar . |
| 12 | Just because the technology offers exciting possibilities , we can not assume that they will be realised . |
| 13 | Not only do they hold good against the trustee himself , and against his creditors during his life-time and his representatives after his death , but also against all to whom he may have transferred the property , and who can not show that they acquired it for value and without notice of the trust . |
| 14 | The two brothers of Armagnac , count and archbishop , thought Grilly ‘ are so oppressed … that in the end they will be compelled to submit by some contrived method … and one can not believe that they can withstand these afflictions much longer . |
| 15 | I am delighted that I have been able to hit on that point , because the flexibility means that the Opposition can not claim that they will not have enough time to debate those clauses . |
| 16 | P/O Atherton was a very experienced pilot , with a second pilot as navigator , so one can not accept that they could be so far off course as to reach the target thirty minutes later , especially as the fires started in the docks by the bombing raid of Blenheims of 59 Squadron could be seen from many miles away . |
| 17 | Although my hon. Friend makes persuasive and powerful arguments , I can not accept that they are convincing reasons for moving the line . |
| 18 | They can not prove that they are right and you can not prove that they are wrong . |
| 19 | They can not prove that they are right and you can not prove that they are wrong . |
| 20 | I can not say that they were happy days , but they taught me what life is about . |
| 21 | However , if people challenge the basic principle of utility one can not say that they are mistaken in any kind of factual way , or that they are necessarily irrational . |
| 22 | An adult nowadays can not really say , or even someone in school , in secondary school can not say that they do not know the dangers of cigarettes . |
| 23 | But to say that the half-yearly payments were to continue till the whole sum of £2,090 19s. , ‘ and interest thereon , ’ should have been fully paid and satisfied , would be to introduce very important words into the agreement which are not there , and of which I can not say that they are necessarily implied . |
| 24 | Christians are supposed to forgive , but what if say it 's the mother of somebody who had a child that 's been murdered or if somebody has been raped you can not say that they should forgive you cos they were a Christian . |
| 25 | Whilst the law is designed to give succour in times of difficulty to those who do their best , it will show little mercy to those who are at the receiving end of proceedings who can not demonstrate that they have given the highest priority . |
| 26 | Special elastic strips can be bought nowadays for this method , but I can not see that they are any improvement on our elastic bands ! |