Example sentences of "can not [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is microcephalic , blind , has severe curvature of the spine , scoliosis , no speech , can not walk and weighs 3 ½ stone . |
| 2 | If the patient can not walk or be transported safely to the kitchen or the dining room , you have to bring the food to him . |
| 3 | A system thus can not create or destroy energy . |
| 4 | What one can not demand but from oneself . |
| 5 | What one can not demand but from oneself . |
| 6 | ‘ Is it your wish to so demoralize Aschmann that she can not perform and you are therefore left without a leading lady for three operettas ? ’ |
| 7 | The practical effect of the amendment is to make it clear that an RFL can not supervise or manage the office of a multi-national practice , except where no right of audience or right to conduct litigation is exercised from the office or supervised from it . |
| 8 | The Code provides additional safeguards for juveniles , mentally handicapped persons , the deaf and those who can not speak or understand English . |
| 9 | Any one investor or writer can not hold or sell more than 1,000 contracts of any one series of a particular class or 2,000 contracts in all the series of any particular class . |
| 10 | … the dimension of time has been shattered , we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes off along its own trajectory and immediately disappears . |
| 11 | In addition to Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley 's well publicised and controversial statement that elder abuse was not a ‘ major problem ’ is the worrying view from junior health minister Tim Yeo who said last year : ‘ In a very small number of cases the carer can not cope and responds with violence . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | So it is fanciful to suppose that Labour 's conversion somehow can not last and is not real . |
| 14 | In doing so I am rather like the doctor by the patient 's bedside , who knows ; although of course he does not tell the patient — that the outcome of the disease will depend upon something in the constitution of that patient which he can not control nor further influence and which he can not even ascertain , except by the event . |
| 15 | Or perhaps it is that if we try to take on the identity and authority of the Weaving Mother the consequences will be severe ; our own personal weavings are only part of a much greater pattern , which we can not control or take credit for . |
| 16 | The National Wildlife Federation warns that voluntary agreements between companies and an agency " which can not verify or enforce the reductions offers little guarantee of progress " . |
| 17 | I 'm caught in the cross-fire between on one side the US which wants to export computers , the motor and textile industries which complain they can not modernise and thus compete without a change in the law , and on the other side the Brazilian computer industry which argues we are leading them into bankruptcy . |
| 18 | All their monstrous systems have so visible and necessary a dependence on it , that when this corner-stone is once removed , the whole fabric can not choose but fall to the ground . ’ |
| 19 | As you can not choose but see , he did not kill me . ’ |
| 20 | In fact , in every microsecond of perceptual experience there is a tension between the real as refractory , as something we can not choose or will , and the subjective as chosen and willed . |
| 21 | Everyone is able to choose how to behave in a given set of circumstances , although many people operate on the assumption that they can not choose and never give the alternatives a moment 's thought . |
| 22 | The argument advanced in section 1.2 would suggest that we can not explain or understand these changes in the UK economy without understanding the international forces that have acted upon it and which the UK has itself shaped . |
| 23 | If there is no intersection then the contained components can not clash and hence there is no problem . |
| 24 | Some people can not spell and do not care about it . |
| 25 | There is absolutely nothing you can not eat or drink if you want to . |
| 26 | It can not eat or drink . |
| 27 | A character who is held fast can not move or fight , and is treated as prone . |
| 28 | Although they are characters they can not move or fight on their own , because they are part of their Mob . |
| 29 | If the carriage stops short and is still connected to the band , when you then try to take the lace carriage across , the band can not move and it will snap . |
| 30 | It can not move and shoot in the same turn , except that it can be turned to face its intended target . |