Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [vb infin] [prep] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Great difficulties arise if an aged person , who has probably just been released from hospital and who is very ill , can not manage in what is usually a two-storey house where the facilities are upstairs , and has to wait 13 months before the application for downstairs facilities is even sanctioned . |
| 2 | The hon. Gentleman will know that I can not comment on what he said about taxation . |
| 3 | I can not think of what to say . |
| 4 | I certainly can not go beyond what I have said this afternoon and on earlier occasions , including what I have told the hon. Gentleman in the Select Committee , about the guarantee of SERPS rights — to put it in shorthand terms — in respect of the guaranteed minimum pension . |
| 5 | I can not go beyond what I have said , except to make it clear once again that if and when it is clear that a further legislative change will materially assist in ensuring that this sort of thing does not happen again , we will be ready to make it . |
| 6 | The character can not benefit by what he or she now knows and all the reader can do is reflect on all that has been lost or missed . |
| 7 | You can not communicate with what you have learnt , nor it seems can you learn by communicating . |
| 8 | The thesis is essentially deterministic : we can not escape from what our genes make of us . |
| 9 | RE should not be expected to bear the full weight of this responsibility , especially because if it does it can not deal with what is distinctive and peculiar to it — there is not time , etc . |
| 10 | I can not add to what I have already said . |
| 11 | I can not say at what speed they moved , or how many times she circled the base of the tower , running as if her life depended on it . |
| 12 | I can not remember to what extent organ donation was common in 1967 , but the Latey Committee expressly recommended that only 18-year-olds and older should be authorised by statute to consent to giving blood : see paragraphs 485–489 . |
| 13 | I am a Christian and can not agree with what John wrote in his article Sodom revisited . |
| 14 | If we do not know what we believe and can not agree on what we believe , then is it not better to wait until we can and do . |