Example sentences of "you can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | You can not walk past them if you 're going in that way . |
| 32 | You can not create a constitution just by writing on a piece of paper , as the French are so fond of doing . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | If you explain that in the drama lesson you are going to be working together , that you will need their help , that you can not create the drama on your own , you are raising their status , making them important . |
| 35 | For example , you can not pass a colon as a literal string parameter in an ON … |
| 36 | If the issue today in some people 's eyes is the need for this community in Greater York to be one hundred percent self sufficient then perhaps we really ought to go pack up and er go home , er because there 's no way that er a settlement that one could envisage in Greater York or perhaps anywhere else can be a hundred percent self sufficiency , self sufficient , you 're not going to get a shopping mall , you 'd be unlikely to get a a major touring theatre , so you can not aim for a hundred percent self sufficiency , you aim for what is appropriate for the size of the community and particularly its relationship to existing settlements er in the general area . |
| 37 | You can not expect a reference book to be quite as gripping as an adventure novel , but all the same I read it cover to cover . |
| 38 | Although , as I 've said , you can not expect to find anything easy here , it is worth a visit . |
| 39 | You can not expect public support if you do not have the support of your own ministers . |
| 40 | You can not expect to be asked the questions exactly as they appear here and you will be badly thrown if you have programmed yourself with exact responses to very particular questions which do not crop up in the way you had anticipated . |
| 41 | You can not expect the world always to come to you — you must go out and meet it sometimes if you are going to have a full social life . |
| 42 | Remember that if you return home at the end of the session with the work you planned to do uncompleted you can not expect to return the next day or the next week to find the situation exactly as you left it . |
| 43 | Believe in God for wrong reasons or for no reason at all and you can not expect to be free from doubt . |
| 44 | You can not expect her to agree wholeheartedly with everything connected with the way you run your home and raise your family , but you must not tolerate any interference in matters that are your concern -just as you must resist the temptation to try to tell her how she should run any part of her life . |
| 45 | Indeed , you can not expect to be paid a great deal , but on the credit side you have no overheads and you will find the practice valuable , both in reading the pattern and using the machine . |
| 46 | Bedi believes India should concentrate on spin and forget hopes of a ‘ mediocre ’ pace attack making any dent in the England batting , saying : ‘ Kapil Dev is an exception , but you can not expect a one-man army to win for you all the time . ’ |
| 47 | You can not expect me to allow my house to be turned into a dressmaking establishment . ’ |
| 48 | You can not expect them to fight for you but their presence may deter the less determined thug . |
| 49 | If this is true ( and it is not so far-fetched : if you carry on an intelligent argument with your readers in the columns of a newspaper , you can not expect them to believe that the responsibilities of self-government are beyond them ) , then it would seem a good example of propaganda having the opposite effect to that intended . |
| 50 | You can not expect to be taken seriously with a bovine 's milking tackle perched on your bonce . |
| 51 | ‘ You can not expect to be in the national squad unless you can prove that you are good enough , so I just have to continue the learning process , equip myself fully for the task , get a bit fitter and that , hopefully , will be at least half the battle ’ . |
| 52 | You can not expect them to be house-trained and , indeed , this can subsequently prove a far more arduous task than normal . |
| 53 | But you can not expect the taxpayers to provide extra help for one-parent families unless someone tries to ensure that the money only goes to families which really do have only one parent in them . |
| 54 | But you can not expect another to carry out a task if he or she is constantly being observed by someone else . |
| 55 | Obviously you can not expect to understand everything at once . |
| 56 | ‘ Your vassals will come to you for justice , and you can not expect them to accept your judgement if it can be seen that you hold the Yasa in contempt . ’ |
| 57 | But you can not expect I mean we was actually lucky there was a job there now , when it closed down . |
| 58 | You can not expect to negotiate a consensus with Congress and then continue to support Companies who exploit young people , exploit part-time workers , mainly women and refuse to recognise Trade Unions . |
| 59 | ‘ We have ejected people in the past who were suspected of selling or taking drugs but you can not expect our security staff to make arrests , ’ said the spokesperson . |
| 60 | It must be emphasised that you can not expect any financial support from the University . |