Example sentences of "we can not [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because future bonuses depend on future profits earned by the GRE Life Fund , we can not of course tell you precisely what your lump sum payment would be . |
| 2 | We can not of course attract and keep customers if we do not produce what they want to buy , if we do not control costs , if we do not hire the right kind of people , or if we fail to motivate them . |
| 3 | If God really has disclosed himself in a Son ; and if that Son was characterised by his possession of the Holy Spirit which he has passed on to his followers then we can not with t denying Christ maintain that God has revealed himself a much in Buddhism as in Christianity ; we can not make an amalgam of religions as if we were all honest seekers after a God who hides himself . |
| 4 | Enjoying , we spontaneously welcome awareness ; bored and listless , we can not without effort summon it up ; disliking , we withdraw from it ; suffering , we recoil from it but can not escape it . |
| 5 | We can not in justice omit to mention the establishing of the Publick Botanick Garden at Chelsea by the Worshipful Company of the Apothecaries of London , not only for the instruction of such as should be employed in the compounding of medicines , in the particular simples therein used ( which alone is a very laudable design ) but also for introducing still a greater variety of trees and plants , which although their virtues or uses are not at present known , yet may hereinafter be found of excellent use for many purposes in life . |
| 6 | We can not in justice defend it and it does not make any financial sense — to use a good accountant 's term , it is imprudent . |
| 7 | Although we may perceive these levels as separate , they are in fact interrelated — we can not in reality separate the parts that make up the whole . |
| 8 | We can not in fact count the number of monomer units in a chain and we must remember that , even if we could , this number would be very unlikely to be the same for all chains . |
| 9 | There might be occasions when we feel that we 'd like MPs to take a particular line , in fact there are occasions when I 'd like to see MPs take a particular line , but we can only ask them , we can not in fact insist that they do take a particular line . |