Example sentences of "so [pron] can [not/n't] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I gave him my heart , and he destroyed it , so I ca n't feel pity for him . |
| 2 | You say she 's got no friends or contacts here so she ca n't get work , and she ca n't get money — sooner or later , she 's going to surface . ’ |
| 3 | because governments have to defend the country , so you ca n't believe promises parties out of power make to disarm ( justification of stated opinion ) ; |
| 4 | And install a cattle trough which is , as far as we ho as far as we believe , vandal-proof , in that it 'll be a self-filling c er cistern filled cattle trough which the , the erm the , the ball float is actually contained in a erm a metal box so you ca n't get access to it . |
| 5 | Housing benefit is very , very difficult to get erm and again it 's paid in arrears , and landlords wo n't wait for that , so you ca n't get accommodation erm and you just sort of go down and down with discouragement really . |
| 6 | S Time is not a decimal so you ca n't operate time as a decimal . |
| 7 | Well do you know what , I forgot to take the chicken out of the fridge last night so we ca n't have dinner so |
| 8 | That 's the problem — each house has to be economically independent after the preliminary conversion , you see , so we ca n't afford nursing staff . |
| 9 | The eyes of almost all sharks and rays lack cone cells , so they can not perceive colour . |
| 10 | They can not speak the language , so they can not get work and they need help . |
| 11 | To the Russians he will always be a traitor and therefore suspect and under surveillance in case he tries to re-defect so he can not leave Russia , his letters will be censored , and telephone calls bugged . |
| 12 | It can not be exactly the algorithm given above because the desired outputs d from the top layer are not known , so it can not calculate y * ( 1-y ) * ( d-y ) . |