Example sentences of "can [not/n't] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ezra Pound 's long love affair with England , and his angry and wounded turning against her in 1917 or 1918 , can not of course bulk so large in an American 's sense of him as in an Englishman 's . |
| 2 | ‘ We have two wills on file , ’ Timothy Hutton said , reaching the end of whatever internal debate he had been having , ‘ but the second , which was made in anticipation of her marriage to Mr Hawick , can not of course be submitted for Probate since that marriage did not take place . |
| 3 | Because future bonuses depend on future profits earned by the GRE Life Fund , we can not of course tell you precisely what your lump sum payment would be . |
| 4 | And this is something which computer analysis of a corpus can not of course determine . |
| 5 | When it has done its work there still remains the task of relating it to aspects of the context which are particular and can not of their nature be accounted for in advance . |
| 6 | We can not of course attract and keep customers if we do not produce what they want to buy , if we do not control costs , if we do not hire the right kind of people , or if we fail to motivate them . |
| 7 | There is no reason to believe that an increasing disparity between the standards of morality and behaviour which one has grown up to believe were true and right and those displayed and legitimated in the surrounding society can not of itself provide the ground for commitment to a movement of moral reform . |
| 8 | The Central Authority system has many advantages , but it can not of course ensure effective or speedy service . |
| 9 | This agreement expresses an understanding and commitment between the two governments which under existing law can not of itself have any internal legal effect . |
| 10 | The speaker 's failure to comment overtly on syntactic structure here can not of course be interpreted as reliable evidence that he habitually uses and understands the construction . |
| 11 | It can not of course be the case that syntactic variables do not pattern socially or stylistically ; some of them plainly do , as the work of , for example , Cheshire has shown . |
| 12 | It is coercive and not mere idle abuse and demands either action or abstention from action on the part of the recipient , so a mere announcement by A that he proposes to strike B is not , for the purposes of the law , a ‘ threat ’ and can not of itself give rise to a claim for damages . |
| 13 | The National Curriculum will undoubtedly change matters to some degree at each of these levels , and indeed the situation in 1991 is already very different from that of 1985–9 , but the National Curriculum can not of itself provide the understanding , skills and commitments which are needed to prevent the weaknesses and inconsistencies we have identified from reappearing in another guise . |
| 14 | And I think that the alternative of the new settlement is by far the best solution , provided it is mixed with some peripheral development , one ca n't go into a position where there is all peripheral development or all new settlement , it has to be in perfect balance , because some needs can not of course be met by the new settlement . |
| 15 | They can not of course do that , this letter described by the director of social services as a disgrace . |
| 16 | This can be achieved through consideration of the poles of although these poles can not of course be reached through variation of the real pulsatance ο . |