Example sentences of "can not do [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you can not do one you only do one you ca n't do both . |
| 2 | We are doing our jobs , it is not our fault that the Board Members and the government can not do theirs , but as usual it is always the workforce who are suffering . |
| 3 | The aforesaid captain I shall endeavour to keep beside me as my bondsman ; hobbled , and under my eye , he can not do me injury . |
| 4 | ‘ Can not do what ? ’ she said brightly , returning with the tray . |
| 5 | We can not do what we want because guilt convinces us that those around us will be hurt , so we temper our lives and our actions to avoid that mythical hurt . |
| 6 | So , in order to avoid what we believe is hurting others , we end up hurting ourselves , with the final result that because we can not do what we want , we grow bitter and resentful . |
| 7 | More critically , it highlights the nature of the constraints on press ‘ freedom ’ : one simply can not do what one ‘ wants ’ ; the exigencies of the market determine what is , and is not , possible . |
| 8 | An enterprise director can not do what he considers best for society since , without the market 's signals , he can not know what this is . |
| 9 | Sadly , the city can not do what is most needed : join its suburban neighbours in a regional government that does away with redundancies and evens out the huge inequities in school financing and municipal services . |
| 10 | One is that it is n't all just a question of the Scottish hierarchy being thralled to Rome in such a way that it can not do what it wants . |
| 11 | They can do what they believe they can do but they sure as hell can not do what their manager believes they can not do . |
| 12 | No I no I do n't say that , cos what I always said is you can not do what your friends will never let you do . |
| 13 | Five thousand ambulance drivers can not do their own negotiating — they need representatives to do it for them . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) Teachers should appreciate that the staff can not do their research for them , and should be prepared to help themselves , though they will usually find the staff to be extremely helpful . |
| 15 | Mandy Merck says : ‘ To associate Bill Clinton with a known gay activist like myself can not do him vast favours in large parts of homophobic America . ’ |
| 16 | If one end of the comb is higher than the other , it can not do its job of pulling down evenly on the stitches . |
| 17 | But this kind of rationalism largely yielded to empiricism with the rise of the Logical Positivists and it is therefore disconcerting to find that experience can not do its job . |
| 18 | In order to guarantee the Council 's legal responsibilities ; to preserve the public 's access to information ; and to preserve the clear channels of communication and a smooth exchange of information without which it can not do its business , local authorities need to give very close attention to who is responsible for the electronic information bases of the departments that are going through the process of white-collar CCT . |
| 19 | If you can not do them daily , try and make sure you do them every alternate day . |
| 20 | ( In practice , however , the calculations required for systems containing more than a few electrons are so complicated that we can not do them . ) |
| 21 | The objection involves the feeling or perhaps the conviction that we can never state or explicitly describe such a thing as a causal circumstance is said to be , which is to say that we can not do something like give a complete enumeration of its elements : we can not give particular or individuating descriptions of all of them . |
| 22 | You can not do everything at the same time . |
| 23 | If you can not do everything at once , or want to start making staged improvements , either concentrate on your first priorities ( leaving space for the next stages ) or your worst problems-depending on whether you are planning a first-time kitchen or updating an existing one . |
| 24 | We can not do everything in a very limited time , so we must select what is essential on the fairest and most comprehensive basis possible : that is , what we think may help pupils to cope with , and make decisions about , things which happen to them — at any age and at any level ; and also what will encourage responsibility concerning the effects they themselves have on others . |
| 25 | Encouraging local managers to use their entrepreneurial and leadership qualities by contributing to the corporate planning and decision-making structure ; in other words , they can influence the future of services if they can convince colleagues and seniors that such change is justified across the organization , but they can not do whatever they want without authority |
| 26 | Viewed structurally and organically , it is the firing line manager in whom all authority and responsibility centre ; only what he can not do himself passes up to higher management ’ . |
| 27 | I can not I can not do I can not differentiate that I 'll tell you what I could do I 'd have no problem at all if you gave me something Y equals U squared no problem |
| 28 | ‘ We can not do it because Gramm-Rudman-Hollings will not let us ’ has become a familiar refrain . |
| 29 | ‘ I can not do it , ’ Alida Thorne said , desperately . |
| 30 | ‘ I can not do it , and there is an end . ’ |