Example sentences of "can not [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can not send us a box that is filled only with good apples , there has to be one that is bruised . ’ |
| 2 | Aye you see I can not tell you the right story , but when Mary Queen of Scots |
| 3 | I d I know that , there 's that phrase you know , we will never see his like again , I think we probably will , but it will be a very long time , and I can not tell you the infinite feeling of sadness erm , that I felt when I heard of his passing . |
| 4 | That 's right so you then go into the en suite room , well I can not tell you the trouble I 've had from the en suite ! |
| 5 | We can not tell who the members of such a union might be . |
| 6 | The Government say that they can not tell us the value of the companies because the information is commercially sensitive . |
| 7 | I can not express what a privilege it has been transcribing it and entering your very mind and spirit in the throes of creativity , as it were . |
| 8 | Since dancing can not earn them a living , Chela and Urna are into self-help , and it is as humiliating in personal terms as any perceived national , cultural subservience to the US . |
| 9 | Since dancing can not earn them a living , Chela and Urna are into self-help , and it is as humiliating in personal terms as any perceived national , cultural subservience to the US . |
| 10 | Since dancing can not earn them a living , Chela and Urna are into self-help , and it is as humiliating in personal terms as any perceived national , cultural subservience to the US . |
| 11 | So if you can not decide what the icon that looks like a milk churn with an overgrown mushroom beside it means you can select it and discover that it means Paste Clipboard contents — oh perhaps it is supposed to be a drawing pin besides a board but you could have fooled me ! |
| 12 | I can not think what the Riding , but not only the Riding , will be without him . |
| 13 | The condition may be upheld if the plaintiff had previously disclosed his reports or offered to disclose them in exchange for the defendant 's reports ( Clarke v Martlew [ 1973 ] QB 58 ) but even that is in doubt since Megarity v DJ Ryan & Sons Ltd [ 1980 ] 2 All ER 832 in which it was said that the plaintiff can not make it a condition precedent to granting a medical examination that the defendant must produce the ensuing report , since to do so would pre-empt the court 's power to give directions as to expert evidence . |
| 14 | ‘ Should you come to town , I am sorry that I can not offer you a home pro tempore — pro trumpery indeed it would be , if I did not make any such offer — for unless you occupied the grate as a seat — I see no probability of your finding any rest consonant with the safety of my parrots — seeing , that of the six chairs I possess — 5 are at present occupied with lithographic prints : — the whole of my exalted & delightful upper tenement in fact overflows with them , and for the last 12 months I have so moved — thought — looked at , — & existed among parrots — that should any transmigration take place at my decease I am sure my soul would be very uncomfortable in anything but one of the psittacidae . ’ |
| 15 | You can not , you can not give them the the national curriculum book ! |
| 16 | But on this case , I can not give it a try — that is the point . |
| 17 | I can not give you a firm promise that this is the turning point . |
| 18 | Perhaps by contemplating you will find something that is wrong in your proposition … dig the gold and look at the country , but we can not give you the country you ask for . |
| 19 | If they ca n't help you speak to the feed companies themselves , and if they can not give you the information you want do n't buy their feed , its as simple as that ! |
| 20 | I can not give you the exact quantities you should use , for it will vary from one water to another according to the carp population . |
| 21 | All this may seem like a put-off — but so many have died through lack of thought , facilities and impatience I can not give you the impression that they are going to be cheap and easy , quite the reverse ! |
| 22 | Thousands of years of philosophy can not give us the answers to these questions . |
| 23 | ( It is strange : even though he has all the necessary information about them , terrestrial psychology is incomprehensible to him — the concept of love unfamiliar , so that he can not guess what a difficult situation he would create by his sincere , practical and well-intended question . ) |
| 24 | It is argued here , that economics can not show us the correct policy choice ( as some economists would appear to claim ) ; yet it may help us to avoid a wrong , or overly costly , policy choice . |
| 25 | Due to the constraints of the Trove system we can not show you the policies as they are actually printed . |
| 26 | But we can not smell what the dog can smell , nor interpret such scents , body postures and barks in the way our dog does . |
| 27 | As I increased Cleveland 's capital allocation from £2.9 million to £3.8 million , I can not accept what the hon. Gentleman says . |
| 28 | I can not envisage what the circumstances will be in 20 years ' time . |
| 29 | Even the most experienced police interrogator can not entirely avoid leading questions , simply because he can not know what the witness actually knows or what really happened . |
| 30 | The very freedom from mass accountability which allows it to do so also makes it difficult for leaders to know what society is thinking : without mechanisms for making needs known and understood , Polish and Soviet leaders simply can not know what the consequences of a rise in food prices or of other policy shifts will be . |