Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could never visit Kyle of Lochalsh without feeling an impelling urge to go across to Skye , and now , in writing this book , which was originally intended to be about the mainland only , I find that I simply can not pass the island by without a further look at its highlight , the Black Cuillin . |
| 2 | So even a very episodic role for political leaders assumes a wider significance , given that elected political leaders can not pass the buck for crisis decisions to any alternative source of authority in a liberal democracy . |
| 3 | If you explain that in the drama lesson you are going to be working together , that you will need their help , that you can not create the drama on your own , you are raising their status , making them important . |
| 4 | A private Member can not command the services of the Parliamentary Draftsman , though it is not unknown for him to render advice and assistance . |
| 5 | In any event , the new regulations can not eliminate the risk to taxi drivers . |
| 6 | The first implication to draw from these models is that diversification within a national market can not eliminate the risk due to the market . |
| 7 | If the Manager can not resolve the matter to your satisfaction , you should write to : |
| 8 | If you can not resolve the matter amicably , I suggest you contact the local council — not with a view to making a direct complaint , but just to establish what the regulations are concerning open fires . |
| 9 | It can not resolve the problem one way or another because the nature of the problem is itself ill defined . |
| 10 | Threatening co-ordination difficulties can arise if and only if the system 's managers can not resolve the displacement of crises because of serious dysfunctions in the economy or some sort of collapse in the cultural — ideological system . |
| 11 | On this I can not resolve the conflict between the various affidavits . |
| 12 | This is because low-pitched sounds have long wavelengths which can not resolve the difference between closely spaced objects . |
| 13 | This means that even as regards third parties who neither have nor need the protection of Code C , and who have never had such protection in the past , the police officer can not demand the production of a document relevant to the suspected offence . |
| 14 | The Dagenham workforce would argue that there are good reasons why the ageing plant can not match the performance of its modern Continental rivals . |
| 15 | Precisely because Stars & Stripes can not match the speed of Kanza and America , Conner 's designers have optimised her for a narrow light air band of 5–8 knots . |
| 16 | Petrol engines also now need fuel injection , as well as electronic engine management systems and expensive catalytic converters to meet exhaust regulations , and even then they can not match the lean-burn diesel for most emissions . |
| 17 | As Clune puts it : ‘ Being required to do anything and especially being required to do something specific can not match the effectiveness of internally motivated , adaptive behaviour directed at the same underlying end . ’ |
| 18 | The LEA budget can not match the sort of investment that the fast food marketing chains make but , in promoting healthy eating , we can copy the best of their relatively inexpensive marketing and presentation techniques and use them to our advantage . |
| 19 | The Creda 17221 Micron outpaces it , but can not match the Logic 's capacious belly . |
| 20 | At present , however , even with the ‘ top resistance ’ touch fitted to some electronic instruments , they can not match the ability of a good pipe organ to exercise effective control of rhythm and phrasing . |
| 21 | ‘ Whatever pleasure it gives you can not match the pleasure it gave me to buy this trinket for you . ’ |
| 22 | We can not match the resources of the USA and the EC . " |
| 23 | Britain can not match the French achievement and in some subjects the number of people undergoing vocational training has declined . |
| 24 | Expert systems can not perform the full range of reasoning strategies handled by the human brain and therefore do not replace human experts rather they are complementary to human expertise . |
| 25 | Clearly , the child can not perform the PB and the CB at the same time . |
| 26 | Conversely , if the right hemisphere can not perform the task at all but has to send the probe stimulus to the left hemisphere for a comparison with memory items then the relative disadvantage in reaction time for the right hemisphere should be constant regardless of the size of the memory set . |
| 27 | A man , Wolff argues , can forfeit his autonomy by not taking the responsibility on himself ; by , for example , obeying commands blindly ; but he can not abnegate the responsibility which the possibility of choice confers upon him . |
| 28 | ‘ Arsenal , Manchester United and Villa have got to be favourites but you can not disregard the likes of Norwich , Blackburn or even Ipswich . |
| 29 | Distribution and storage should be in materials that can not contaminate the water , such as asbestos-cement , plastics , or lined pipes and containers . |
| 30 | With the rise of palaeontology about 1800 this test became anyway less relevant : we can not supervise the mating of dinosaurs . |