Example sentences of "we can [not/n't] make [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore we can not make syntactic sense of which until we get to the end of the sentence . |
| 2 | As we approach the year 2000 , with an increasingly complex system of higher education , with more students , more kinds of institutions and more kinds of courses , we can not make such assumptions . |
| 3 | At the moment we can not make precise predictions about the level and type of demand , but we do know that the number of places in residential and nursing home care has declined in the past year . |
| 4 | That we can not make those leaps of vision so because we are bound to a cultural view which denies their possibility . ’ |
| 5 | If we can not make any sensible estimates as to the existence of intelligence on other worlds , at least we can look at non-human intelligences back here on Earth . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | However , we have I 'm sorry to say , identified two constraints in our powers , and we can not make further progress until these constraints have been removed . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ Many of the costs of running the dockyard are fixed , and consequently a point is reached where we can not make further savings without placing its feasibility in jeopardy . |
| 9 | Time and financial constraints , as well as a recent rapid increase in student numbers ( 90 in 1991 , 125 in 1992 ) , mean that we can not make this as wide-ranging as we would like . |