Example sentences of "it can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Alas , this book need all the blackmail it can get , for it can not stand up by itself to disinterested scrutiny . |
| 32 | Such a response seems understandable given that it allows McFaul to explain why he is at odds with the Party while still maintaining that he is loyal to its principles and to its founder , but it can not stand as a general proposition . |
| 33 | Fairlie emphasizes that the House has no corporate feeling , it can not stand apart from the government , and the parliamentary reformers ' idea that the House can recover some of its former powers is both impracticable and , in his judgement , undesirable . |
| 34 | It can not resolve the problem one way or another because the nature of the problem is itself ill defined . |
| 35 | No matter how good the firm 's organisation it can not compensate for low-grade staff ; the selection and training of personnel is therefore an essential part of the surveyor 's management function . |
| 36 | Until the plant comes on stream in 1994 Marlow faces a demand it can not cope with . |
| 37 | Because it can not cope with so many messages , its only recourse is to sabotage the airwaves themselves . |
| 38 | It can not cope with the vast complexity of modern economic systems without seriously blunting industrial efficiency and individual freedom of choice . |
| 39 | I am saying that , as an organisation , it can not cope with the work it has to do at the present time . |
| 40 | Clearly if the book is to be of manageable size it can not contain an exhaustive statement of the principles of relevant substantive law , of the principles of drafting , or precedents to cover every eventuality , and it does not seek to do so . |
| 41 | First , since the ICC is not a lawmaking body it can not formulate rules of a mandatory character ; indeed , its rules are intended to encapsulate proper practice rather than to distribute legal liability . |
| 42 | It can not exist anywhere else . ’ |
| 43 | You provide the food that negativity needs to exist , for without your fear , it can not exist . |
| 44 | Therefore it can not exist simply from itself : it must depend upon the necessary being of God . |
| 45 | Though training it is important , the guidelines stress it can not exist in isolation and has to be backed up by team management . |
| 46 | Since it is admitted , or rather insisted , that as far as you are concerned there could be no difference between the hypothesis that you are currently sitting reading and the hypothesis that you are a brain in a vat being fed the experiences of one sitting reading , then it can not matter to you which is really true and which is false . |
| 47 | As no one group is self-sufficient it can not meet the needs of its members . |
| 48 | It can not meet the guarantee . |
| 49 | Should the ego fail to satisfy the id it becomes prey to neurotic anxiety arising out of the strength of its instinctual drives ; if it fails the superego it is subject to moral anxiety ; and if it can not meet the demands of the outside world it is likely to experience realistic anxiety . |
| 50 | Plastic sheeting laid over the soil can prevent leaching but it can not draw up , into the top soil , the deep minerals in the way that alfalfa or fodder radish can do . |
| 51 | It can not cover newspaper announcements , private burial plots or memorials . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | It can not decide anything whatever . |
| 54 | Although it can choose whether to sell bonds or Treasury bills , it can not decide just who is to purchase them — banks/discount houses , the general public or foreigners . |
| 55 | By reacting in this way , Jane is able to stand back from the situation and it can not hurt her as it used to do . |
| 56 | Whilst it can plausibly introduce a hybrid reform with de-centralising features , it can not dismantle the machine it has created without repudiating itself . |
| 57 | I I find issue with one point in the Good Report , when he mentioned that a surplus is a notional surplus , it can not crystallize until the fund actual close down . |
| 58 | It can not show the change for individual classes of intermediary . |
| 59 | And because the bay is long and shallow , like a peapod , with an average depth of only 9 m , it can not absorb heat well . |
| 60 | If a newspaper publishes a defamatory statement , it can not shift all the blame to the person who uttered it in the first place . |