Example sentences of "so [pers pn] can not " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I can not claim to be an expert , but I have been considering spending my own money on America this year . |
| 2 | I think that mixing is difficult because many houses are not accessible and so I can not just ‘ drop in ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ Because Burun will not go — if it was reconnaissance I think he might , but it is not — and so I can not . ’ |
| 4 | There is provision made for a rudder assembly on the Seayak but my version came without one so I can not vouch for its effectiveness in steering . |
| 5 | So I can not tell you now , I ca n't remember where the quarry was whether it was North Wales Quarry , whether it was Slate Quarry down in in in |
| 6 | At the end of the franchise period he will have nothing to sell , so I can not see how people could go away and borrow the working capital with which to run a business . |
| 7 | So I can not accept that . |
| 8 | So you can not shuffle off your responsibilities as my officer in that way , Bragg . ’ |
| 9 | So you can not take it for granted . |
| 10 | So you can not assume anything . |
| 11 | But precisely because of that , sex and sexual representations are important to us , and so we can not allow a simple-minded anti-pornography consensus to stifle us . |
| 12 | So we can not characterize the difference between inside and outside in terms of freedom vs. determinism . |
| 13 | So we can not work out the length of the whole period simply by adding up all the figures given . |
| 14 | A final point that has to be borne in mind is that in order to make generalizations based on the type of quantitative analysis pioneered by Labov , a large number of tokens must be analysed ( usually thousands ) ; however , it happens that some variables that are quite salient in the community occur relatively rarely , and so we can not make reliable quantitative statements about these covering the range of speaker variables , even though they may be involved in linguistic change and may be important for historical projections on to earlier English . |
| 15 | These trends might of course represent the beginning of a change in progress , but if this is so , it is not yet established as a pattern that we can show by our methods as regular , and so we can not demonstrate that it is a change . |
| 16 | So we can not have a strategy for teacher development any more than a teacher can have a strategy for child development . |
| 17 | ‘ We were only four wins behind Chris Dickson so we can not be too bad . ’ |
| 18 | So we can not become complacent or leave START to do the job alone , because it is not enough by itself . |
| 19 | Anywhere the road is wide enough , they are congregating so we can not anticipate where they will be . |
| 20 | The most modern interferometers can obtain spectra in shorter times , but even so they can not deal with samples that decay in seconds , let alone milli- , micro- or nanoseconds . |
| 21 | If so he can not have been there long , for in 1589 he was killed under somewhat suspicious circumstances . |
| 22 | Dr Howe added : ‘ He is not conscious and so he can not suffer . ’ |
| 23 | So he can not cast off the argument from error and rely entirely on the conditional theory to show that K aq is here false . |
| 24 | You do not think like a civilised man , although your behaviour has become civilised , and so he can not ascribe to your actions motives which are suspect — or not according to his understanding . ’ |
| 25 | A cat has no concept of its own death and so it can not anticipate it , no matter how ill it feels . |
| 26 | But it can not treat gender as a theoretical or methodological category , that might structure its own tools and methods of inquiry , and so it can not examine its own discourse for masculine bias . |
| 27 | However , the coefficients of this model are unknown , and so it can not be used in the empirical investigation of the risk premium . |
| 28 | ’ — And so it can not be allowed to occur . |
| 29 | This broad sense should include the ironic , metaphoric and implicit communicative content of an utterance , and so it can not be restricted to the conventional content of what is said . |
| 30 | They are responsible about their productive processes and they are responsible about the design of car engines and we are told that the market will find ways to deal with this , but surely it can not , for after all the market is mindless , so it can not take into account either the future or the needs and wishes of people other than those who have the purchasing power for immediate consumption . |