Example sentences of "can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | History indicates that general practice is not so demanding that unqualified people can not pass themselves off as principals for many years and get away with it . |
| 32 | A short length of each vas deferens should be removed to ensure that sperm can not pass between the severed ends . |
| 33 | They eliminate what I call the " instinct " reporter , who perhaps can not pass exams but who is still street-wise , intelligent and eager . |
| 34 | Larger particles can not pass through until they have been chewed down to size . |
| 35 | Again , the medical profession will argue that an individual without medical expertise can not pass judgement on their performance . |
| 36 | Someone hiring goods under a hire-purchase agreement is not a ‘ buyer ’ and therefore can not pass good title under either the Factors Act , section 9 or the Sale o Act , section 25 . |
| 37 | Platey particles such as mica flakes may readily pass diagonally through meshes which more nearly spherical grains of identical intermediate diameters can not pass as a result of the length of their short diameters . |
| 38 | I can not pass water without a forgotten claimant reaching for what is his . |
| 39 | The other limitation is that property can not pass in unascertained goods , see section 16 ( above ) . |
| 40 | There is no particular reason to think that people who are determined to get their hands on vulnerable children will be so stupid that they can not pass examinations . |
| 41 | It is for nearly 12 miles so narrow , that a mouse can not pass by any carriage … |
| 42 | For example , you can not pass a colon as a literal string parameter in an ON … |
| 43 | ‘ They can not pass off the blame as if the order to close these homes came directly from Whitehall , ’ said Mr Bergg , a member of Great Aycliffe Town Council . |
| 44 | Two vehicles can not pass without mounting the pavement . ’ |
| 45 | Actively to create room for such development work seems essential precisely because field workers who are hard pressed by a burden of routine and less focused casework demands can not create such room for themselves . |
| 46 | You can not create a constitution just by writing on a piece of paper , as the French are so fond of doing . |
| 47 | We can not create reasons just by intending to do so and expressing that intention in action . |
| 48 | Although the recently announced European Air Traffic Control information system may facilitate the movement of aircraft across national boundaries , it can not create more airspace in the already crowded skies over southern England . |
| 49 | This can be done by making a point of asking their advice on small matters , which can not create any anxiety in them . |
| 50 | With our present-day highly developed technologies , we can re-create many of the complex molecules found in nature , but we can not create life — another argument in favour of the existence of the life force or life energy , whatever it may be . |
| 51 | Chancellors can not create confidence . |
| 52 | ‘ If man can not create anything or move anybody , if he can not break out of the prison of his total narcissism and isolation , he can escape the unbearable sense of vital impotence and nothingness only by affirming himself in the act of destruction of the life that he is unable to create . |
| 53 | to operate among the capacities and struggles which exist outside themselves : while they are crucially important in forming these into a programme they can not create practical policies themselves for these arise from people 's practical negotiation of their immediate environment . |
| 54 | Some films have to be shot on location : you can not create a moving ‘ face ’ out of several thousand people for a British Airways commercial in any other way . |
| 55 | Clearly , we can not create a competitive market of ideas in crime investigation . |
| 56 | To borrow the economic analogy , competition is meaningless , or at any rate can not create consumer sovereignty , unless there is some product differentiation . |
| 57 | In the same term it was resolved by the two Chief Justices , Chief Baron , and Baron Altham , upon conference betwixt the Lords of the Privy Council and them , that the King by his proclamation can not create any offence which was not an offence before , for then he may alter the law of the land by his proclamation in a high point ; for if he may create an offence where none is , upon that ensues fine and imprisonment : also the law of England is divided into three parts , common law , statute law , and custom ; but the King 's proclamation is none of them : also malum aut eat malum in se , aut prohibitum , that which is against common law is malum in se , malum prohibitum is such an offence as is prohibited by Act of Parliament , and not by proclamation . |
| 58 | That 's not to say that it can not create long documents , far from it , just that equal emphasis is given to each page by the program . |
| 59 | Thirdly , there is a concern to explain to the Community that if there are to be compensations , we can not create a whole new system of compensatory payments which will last for ever at a price which will never be able to be paid . |
| 60 | A system thus can not create or destroy energy . |