Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bald answer to a problem , even though correct , will not earn many ( perhaps not any ) marks , because the examiner can not tell whether the student has knowledge or is just guessing . |
| 2 | I can not tell whether the phone has stopped ringing or not ; at some point I think I hear a ring louder than all other rings , and a voice , not Maggie 's voice , but another voice , a woman 's voice , a slow Scottish accent , asking and begging for Crilly . |
| 3 | Because the data comes from a survey conducted at one point in time , we can not tell if the relationship is conditional upon age or period , however . |
| 4 | Only that I can not tell if the echoes are from the past or the future , or some other world altogether . |
| 5 | The scenario depicted is that decreased hospital stay means that older people ( or indeed patients of any age ) are being sent home with high levels of dependency ; community services/informal carers can not cope and the person has to come back into hospital . |
| 6 | Just as in-service education does not work if it has not been tailored to match the stage or condition of the teacher who is to benefit from it , so the manager can not manage unless the method and style of management are acceptable and unless its purposes have been first unravelled and then knitted together after consultation between the manager and the manager 's colleagues . |
| 7 | representative , and , an independent superintendent , have just inspected the ship and tell me that loading can not start until the crew have dried out the holds — that will delay us a while . |
| 8 | As it is usually necessary to demonstrate that the project will not go ahead without the grant , work can not start until the grant application has been accepted . |
| 9 | But that can not mean that the process of change has ended . |
| 10 | Such is 67 : The detail in much of this poem remains enigmatic , but here as in 68 I can not think that the references to false ornament and cosmetics ( including wigs made of hair taken from the scalp of corpses ) are favourable to the Friend , who seems to be encouraging corruption by his own example or presence in this milieu . |
| 11 | I can not think that the words ‘ all costs ’ mean anything other than that . |
| 12 | The gravamen of the charge is the demand without reasonable or probable cause : and I can not think that the mere fact that the threat is to do something a person is entitled to do either causes the threat not to be a ‘ menace ’ within the Act or in itself provides a reasonable or probable cause for the demand … |
| 13 | C might ignore the agreement , take coercive action and promote a conflict between itself and A and B. C can not be compelled to accept the terms of the treaty between A and B ; if C acts contrary to the treaty , A and B can not make that the basis of a claim against C. Equally , if the treaty between A and B was in C's interest , C could not enforce that interest through legal proceedings unless it was in fact more than an interest , and amounted to a legally protected right . |
| 14 | ‘ Candidate ( thinking he has at last come upon a Village Hampden ) : ‘ I can not conceive that the Election can in any way affect your rights here . ’ |
| 15 | I can not conceive that the pathologist will trouble to look there for a puncture mark and indeed , prior to that eventuality , it does n't seem likely that the emergency team of paramedics they 'll send out from Brighton General will be well enough acquainted with the action of this drug to hit upon the right antidote in time to prevent her from expiring . ’ |
| 16 | If SCAN is displayed , the transfer can not continue until the errors have been corrected in the module . |
| 17 | The procedure is designed to give a " right of reply " instead of an action for damages in cases where the media have behaved responsibly : the plaintiff can not succeed if the defendant proves that an " offer of amends " was made in good time , and is still open at the time of the trial . |
| 18 | As for myself , I can not pretend that the time since we last corresponded has been equally fruitful or pleasant . |
| 19 | Crucially , however , the point is this : I can not pretend that the philosophical Enlightenment has never happened , and that we are not living on the ‘ post ’ side of a scientific revolution . |
| 20 | They can not intervene unless the decision-maker steps outside the boundaries of what the legislature was believed to have allowed . |
| 21 | We can not expect that the experience and experiments of other people in other places occupied with other problems will produce answers off the peg which will fit our particular requirements . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The judge in making an award of damages will know that a payment into court has been made , but will not know in what sum and so can not ensure that the damages awarded are high enough to beat the payment into court , if minded to make an award similar to that which the defendant has offered . |
| 24 | So , we do apologize , but hope you 'll understand er , the delegate particularly , that we just can not ensure that the report has got absolutely everything in it . |
| 25 | If the density decreases upwards , then the turbulence must do work against buoyancy forces , which therefore produce a loss of turbulent energy additional to viscous dissipation ; turbulence can not persist when the density gradient is too large . |
| 26 | Some hemiplegic patients are incontinent , either because they have poor sensation and can not feel when the bladder or bowel needs to be emptied , or because they do not pay attention and so forget to go to the toilet , or ask to be taken . |
| 27 | Thus if we have a whole W , made up of parts X and Y then we can not assume that the value of W is the value of X added to the value of Y , for W may be an organic unity . |
| 28 | If we are to understand the significance of subject specialization , then we must take the choices made by women seriously : we can not assume that the student who chooses physical science is somehow ‘ right ’ while the student who chooses the humanities is somehow ‘ wrong ’ . |
| 29 | In other words , in this case , we can not assume that the position in 1974 represented inter-generational equity . |
| 30 | You must state these , because you can not assume that the users of this grammar are well acquainted with such principles . |