Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [pron] can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , not too long afterwards , an emissary came to ask me how much money I wanted not to look too closely into Thieme 's affairs , I knew what many an ‘ investigative ’ journalist knows : for some people , there are no rules , no codes they do not think they can break . |
| 2 | Second , we will set-down the perspective of the Liberals and SDP — the parties that have been most active in pressing the case for a new constitution precisely because they do not think they can win within the rules of the old one . |
| 3 | The Americans are telling East Europeans that they should not think they can join NATO — that would break the ‘ do n't gloat ’ rule — and they do not mean to imply , either , that NATO 's security perimeter has been extended to the Soviet-Polish border . |
| 4 | I do not think anyone can tell you how to create an advertisement . |
| 5 | ‘ Jane Eyre , you need not think you can succeed in getting out of the room like this . |
| 6 | She said : ‘ I would sit at Westminster for the time being , but I do not think you can do both . |
| 7 | I do not think I can give the petitioner superior rights . |
| 8 | Another asked for the name of a good travel agent , while a third declared : ‘ I do not think I can bear another five years of Andrew Lloyd Webber ; I 'm off . ’ |
| 9 | Let us pretend that it is only that Grainne is too far above me , and let us continue the pretence , for I do not think I can bear it any other way . |
| 10 | I do not think I can bear this , thought Grainne , but even as the thought was framed , she knew that for someone it had had to be borne , there had been no escaping it , this bottomless dark pit , this vast endless night sea … |
| 11 | I am afraid that I must say frankly that I do not think I can open the columns of the Q.R. — at any rate , at present — to any one associated publicly with such a publication as Blast . |
| 12 | I do not think I can do any more . |
| 13 | What comes across , to us , is that workers , on the whole , do not feel they can change the principal features of their world of work … |
| 14 | First , regretfully , we do not feel we can enter into an open-ended commitment to fund the shortfall in section eleven . |
| 15 | ‘ But I do not feel I can do justice to that need here , in the uncomfortable cold of this cave . |
| 16 | Frankfurt Dear Professor , I do not feel I can talk about my parents . |
| 17 | Martin Heslop , prosecuting , said : ‘ I do not feel I can ask a jury to convict with the measure of certainty required . ’ |
| 18 | Marshall does not believe they can succeed unless they adapt their approach . |
| 19 | We protect older people from harm , real and imaginary , because we do not believe they can protect themselves . |
| 20 | If the small company audit is abolished , the reason for being authorised will disappear along with a substantial part of their earning capacity which they do not believe they can recoup through selling other services . |
| 21 | Eisenhower , who was not unsympathetic to the plight of the blacks , did not see legislation as the real answer to the problem : " I do not believe you can change the hearts of men with laws and decisions . " |
| 22 | First of all , It 's a dog does not entail It can bark ( since a dog may have a congenital malformation of the larynx , or some such ) ; hence , ‘ can bark ’ is not a criterial trait . |
| 23 | Invitations come via playgroups but parents of the few children who do not attend one can contact the headteacher , Margaret Sutton , at the school . |
| 24 | Yet God 's pardon does not mean we can put memories of the Flood out of our minds . |
| 25 | Although building professionals may not have to manage workers in the building , this does not mean they can ignore the elements of motivation and job satisfaction . |
| 26 | But the fact that a child can slide down a mountain more quickly than you can does not mean he can catch lifts , follow pistes , order lunch , or even find the Herren plonked with Austrian efficiency at the summit of each skiable peak . |
| 27 | The fact that it is the same organisation does not mean it can fulfil Mr Reagan 's technically impossible goal . |
| 28 | There are those who imagine , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that because they know the machine will not start they can afford to ignore it . |