Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] can [not/n't] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I hope this article clearly shows how to one fishkeeper a species can seem so easy he/she can not stop them breeding , while for another it can seem to be the most difficult fish in the world . |
| 2 | In one Douglas Fairbanks tells a woman to follow him and when faced with her persistent refusal , arguing as she does that she can not abandon her home , he tethers his horses to the latter and carts the whole house off in a burst of white-toothed laughter . |
| 3 | The sceptic says that there is a difference between the two hypotheses but that you can not tell it since it is evidence-transcendent . |
| 4 | Frustrated I can not land what I want to do , and do n't want to settle for the wrong thing . |
| 5 | Above all we can not ignore it : whereas at one time we might have been able to smile at the perversity of the local watch committee in another town , the collective action of several dozen politically motivated local authorities to ban News International publications effectively took censorship in libraries well beyond the silly season in the Press ; and whereas we could once afford to hang back with our copies of Fanny Hill secure in the knowledge that we would be nowhere near the top of the prosecution list , Section 28 is in place and ready to pick us off should we try to share our enthusiasm for homosexual literature with more than a few of our consenting adult users . |
| 6 | Sure they can not take one big er , holiday . |
| 7 | For example , the capital letters of " How Do You Like London " might suggest a number of phonetic factors abnormal loudness , slow-motion delivery , stressing of every syllable — all expressive of the proverbial Englishman 's assumption that those who can not speak his language as a native are deaf or stupid , or both . |
| 8 | It is important , therefore , that feminists challenge the current definitions of housing need , and campaign against the public sector becoming a residual category for those who can not afford their own housing . |
| 9 | Thus the DH comments in Caring for People about the relationship of services to those who can not afford their full cost is particularly relevant : ‘ In practice many consumers of personal social services can not afford the full cost of the service and ability to pay does not , and should not in any way influence decisions on the service to be provided . ’ |
| 10 | Those who can not allow themselves to experience the pain and the guilt that goes with it can not move through to acceptance and therefore some more creative response . |
| 11 | Dr Geoffrey Wyatt , the paediatrician who was her ‘ partner in crime ’ to those who can not believe they were even remotely right , still works in Middlesbrough , though not on child abuse . |
| 12 | Guide those who are working to bring practical care in our city and our land , and we pray that you will bring peace to those who can not find it in our society . |
| 13 | But that , in effect , means changing his character , and at the age of 50 he can not do it : the mould is set . |
| 14 | I have been talking to the whites many years about the lands in question , and it is strange they can not understand me ; the country they claim belonged to my father , and when he died it was given to me and my people , and I will not leave it until I am compelled to . |
| 15 | At first I can not see her for the heaps of people about her bedside , brandished with packaged sweets and magazines and flowers of white and purple . |
| 16 | If a policeman observes you doing that he can not do anything about it because we have no law which makes it illegal to be deliberately cruel to a wild animal . |
| 17 | Mothers or fathers on their own who can not earn their own living , or who decide ( as they are fully entitled to ) that they would prefer to care for their children instead , must get paid for the important work they do . |
| 18 | ( b ) They are essentially personal , and although historians may try to be objective and impartial they can not free themselves entirely from their own ideas about people and the world , their personal likes and dislikes , and the assumptions and values of the age in which they live . |
| 19 | While there is trouble between Copt and Moslem he can not offer it to a Copt nor a Copt take it . ’ |
| 20 | Now in 1977 with the population around 100 times greater we can not support one . |
| 21 | It is clear that in reading a novel one can not influence its development ( that can be the pleasure or pain of reading ) , but it is almost equally hard for a criminal to influence the direction of a trial , or for a primary school pupil to prevent the lesson progressing as the teacher intends . |