Example sentences of "can no [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another good reason for calm is that today Britain and America can no longer create a global depression by themselves ; Japan and Germany would need to join in . |
| 2 | The response of Dr P to communications , it will be remembered , is that it ignores the aesthetic , that it is so obsessed with ‘ ideological statements and political texts ’ that it can no longer make a distinction between good and bad . |
| 3 | Whisked ‘ Andrew has always regarded her as a good mother but he can no longer turn a blind eye to her behaviour . |
| 4 | It is not impossible , if he fails in the Gulf , to make progress on Palestine , where the Arab uprising of the past three years has made it clear that Israel can no longer maintain a decent stewardship of the occupied territories . |
| 5 | This suggestion was , not surprisingly , refused by Mrs Thatcher , who , despite the fact that her Government used the guillotine in Parliament to ensure a jury can no longer have a say in the public interest , as they had in the trial of Clive Ponting , declared in a written reply to Baroness Ewart Biggs , that : |
| 6 | When the pet can no longer enjoy a good quality of life or is suffering , your responsibility then is to free him from aches , pains and indignities , to let him die peacefully and with dignity . |