Example sentences of "that [pers pn] can not have " in BNC.

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1 The bank manager says that I can not have it until the will 's executor , my stepfather , agrees .
2 She has been told by the local hospital that she can not have an appointment until June 1993 .
3 She did not do much for the female stereotype , but she did do away with the idea that you can not have a woman as boss .
4 Then , in the early part of this century , the quantum theory appeared ; its details need not concern us except for the fact that it implied that all forms of matter and energy came in tiny discrete packages called quanta ( by ‘ discrete ’ is meant that you can not have half a quantum ) .
5 Talk about ‘ forging a new language ’ to describe new experiences forgets that an old language can sometimes express novelty better than any other ; and the case fails to notice , too , that life depends on contrasts : that you can not have informality without formality , bluntness without courtesy , indecorum without decorum .
6 A common reply to this is that you can not have social control without crime or deviance and hence , if social control is necessary , then crime and deviance must be , too .
7 Some twelve months ago I embarked on my year of Presidency , a daunting task some might say , and something that you can not have a ‘ trial run ’ at .
8 Nor will it come from exports , which are now falling because the pound is so overvalued that we can not have export success at its present level of valuation .
9 If that is the case that each of the political parties , as I assume is the case for er the Conservative party , I know it to be the case of the Labour party I assume the same is true for the Liberal Democrats and other parties represented in this house , that they undertake the very considerable organisational er er process of selecting candidates only to find a few weeks before June the ninth , that as a result of the difficulties that I 've described as far as the French government attitude towards these elections is concerned , that er in fact we have to revert to the existing arrangements and that we can not have these new er boundaries in place .
10 Mr Ashdown said : ‘ The fact remains that we can not have the social chapter if the Maastricht Bill is destroyed .
11 We 've got so much to do that requires investment which is why er I have said er that we can not have in general , across the board tax cuts , er income tax cuts , because we need the money for that crucial social investment .
12 tired that they can not have a decent conversation , dinner or social night out .
13 And that they can not have .
14 They know that they can not have everything and that on occasions they may have to wait .
15 The victim had then chased the boy and caught him , before realising that he had been shot in the arm , which once more suggests that it can not have been a terribly powerful weapon .
16 It runs so near the ancient Banbury-Oxford road ( within a quarter of a mile in places ) that it can not have served as another through road .
17 That it should require a lid painting at all suggests that it can not have been an English instrument or a Ruckers , and , if its shape is drawn as carefully as the presence of an accompanying scale would indicate , the rather blunt double curve of the bentside would suggest one of the Hamburg makers .
18 Ali Cemali , who had in the years between 888 and 891 moved on to other posts , was the first appointee to the new medrese and , though his salary is not specified , the course of his career to this point suggests that it can not have been less than 50 akce a day .
19 Can it have changed much — or did it rain so pre-emptively that he can not have noticed the lovely inlets at Isleornsay , their green banked lands sloping to soft-coloured waters ?
20 Is my hon. Friend aware that , next month , my hon. Friend the Member for Hyndburn ( Mr. Hargreaves ) and I shall be visiting the European Commission and Parliament — not only to tell Mr. Delors that he can not have all the money that he is asking from the British people , but to create business opportunities for our constituents ?
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 .
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