Example sentences of "can not [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the patient can not walk at all , you should have a special wheelchair for outdoor use ; while an indoor wheelchair has large back wheels and relatively thin tyres , the outdoor version may have four small wheels with thick fat tyres , which should be kept pumped up to the correct pressure . |
| 2 | But no one has said that you can not sit at the table and talk to your family , even if you choose not to eat . |
| 3 | Mandale Harrier Shaun Purcell , runner-up in the Cleveland Schools Championships , has been told he can not compete at Bristol next month because he missed the annual School InterCounties with a flu virus . |
| 4 | Clearly , children can not speak at birth , but Chomsky wishes to credit them with two distinct kinds of knowledge . |
| 5 | And do n't get so drunk that you ca n't stand up and have to sit down in the middle or , worse still , can not speak at all . |
| 6 | ‘ We can not tell at all how the pol[itica]l situation will develop , ’ wrote Trevelyan to Morel in July 1915 , adding : ‘ There is no hurry . ’ |
| 7 | It is expected that adoption of each of these programmes will be delayed and this in turn will affect dates for calls for proposals , publicity events , etc , although we can not tell at the moment how long the delay will last and the consequences it may have . |
| 8 | Sometimes girls are there because they are very young or they are homeless , sometimes it is because their parents can not cope at home with the responsibility for them and a newborn baby , and in other cases a home takes in and assesses girls whose ability to look after their baby is in question . |
| 9 | It has shown itself all at once , she can not remain at home for very much longer . ’ |
| 10 | Prices can not remain at this level for long , but potential buyers can be assured that their money will be safer in one of these than in almost any other car . |
| 11 | I can not sleep at night … my heart is weak … my feet are heavy … |
| 12 | We can not sleep at the new night time , we feel tired during the daytime ( at a time corresponding to night in the time zone we have just left ) , and our appetite is upset . |
| 13 | If you can not sleep at night , your doctor will give you a potion to bring on artificial sleep . |
| 14 | He wrote : ‘ I can not sleep at night . |
| 15 | He may be frightened by crossing a road , by fast cars , by crowds or sudden noises , so that his spasticity increases ; he may panic and freeze in these situations , so that he can not move at all . |
| 16 | The patient may try to use his ‘ good ’ side to compensate for the affected side of his body which he can not move at will . |
| 17 | The response points out that there is little point in improving regional road links if traffic can not move at the beginning or end of its journey — inevitably this must involve a public transport solution within urban areas , with some form of limitation on car usage . |
| 18 | Tragically , we can not negotiate at the moment , but that will be put right before too long . |
| 19 | Éomer 's intervention does not help him much , for he and his companions can not decide at the end of chapter 2 whether they have seen Saruman or not . |
| 20 | Names on the short-list are confidential and I can not comment at this stage . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I am afraid I can not comment at all , ’ said Sir Donald Hall , deputy chairman of GEC-Marconi . |
| 22 | Although the family in the orthodox reader can not exist at all — there is no family so griefless , angerless , humourless , or so utterly devoid of conflict as the family in the orthodox reader — it is recognisable in externals … the detached house … father at leisure with the lawnmower ( or going to the office with the brief case ) , the large dog and the aristocratic cat , the tidy organised family consisting only of one father , one mother , one son , one daughter . |
| 23 | The only liberty I mean , is a liberty connected with order ; that not only exists along with order and virtue but , which can not exist at all without them . |
| 24 | Paradise Lost is taken by most at the level of the author 's presentation and unless one looks very deeply and sceptically at Satan or one is a Christian like Lewis or a Puritan like Milton one can not laugh at him for being a fool . |
| 25 | Barrister and writer Nemone Lethbridge , not a fan herself , wrote in TV Times , ‘ I can not laugh at this massive dose of humiliation and embarrassment . |
| 26 | And even an enthusiast like her admits that the growth in converts to her cause can not continue at the present rate . |
| 27 | Bill Walker , Conservative MP for Tayside North , says : ‘ We can not continue at the current level of borrowing , so some new source of income has to be found . |
| 28 | This is a problem for plants because they already have fewer daylight hours in which to manufacture their food , and can not grow at all if the temperature falls below 6 degrees Celsius . |
| 29 | Also until such time as a creditor has lodged a proof of debt , he can not vote at meetings of creditors . |
| 30 | Baker coupled his recommendation with expressions of support for the " courageous people " of the Baltic states , and a warning to the Soviet leadership that " perestroika can not succeed at gunpoint " . |