Example sentences of "[pron] can not [verb] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not resist saying that when Japan finally exchanges her peaceful simplicity , her admiration for , and artistic appreciation of , Nature 's beauties , and her contented national life , for the storm stress , and hurry of that feverish existence known to the West , she will have given up the substance for the shadow . |
| 2 | ‘ I do not wish to be hard upon poor people in great affliction ; but I can not help thinking that they have been doing for hundreds of years past something very like what the Bible calls ‘ tempting God' ’ — staking their property and their lives upon the chances or no earthquakes coming , while they ought to have known that an earthquake might come an day . ’ |
| 3 | I can not help thinking that the booby who so completely misses the point of the question is often actuated by some hidden ( and mistaken ) motive of self-preservation . |
| 4 | This was followed by an interview between the President and Von Papen : and I can not help thinking that , during their conversation together , the former must have assured the latter that , so long as she could hold out against Allied demands , Turkey would abstain from hostile action towards Germany . |
| 5 | I can not help believing that the most discerning public must be interested in this work . |
| 6 | I can not help feeling that any good done might have been cancelled out by oil fires in the Gulf . |
| 7 | As one reads the various strictures of the Old Testament prophets against those who exploit their economic power , I can not help feeling that their major relevance within the U K today is to the trade union movement by the power exercised by elements within it . |
| 8 | Indeed , if it were to be as firmly and clearly drawn as some of our mentors would wish , I can not help feeling that a number of leading cases in your Lordships ' House would never have been decided the way they were . |
| 9 | The description of the facts is somewhat exiguous and I can not help feeling that if they had been fully stated the case would fall to be treated as involving a demand colore officii rather than as supporting the Woolwich principle . |
| 10 | Although the matter does not arise in this appeal because Woolwich were fully aware of all the relevant circumstances , I can not help feeling that there is some illogicality in treating as voluntary a payment by someone who justifiably believes that the demand is lawful whereas in fact it turns out to be unlawful . |
| 11 | At the same time I can not help feeling that the defence is one which ought to be used with great discretion , and that for two reasons . |
| 12 | I can not help feeling that there must be a lesson here . |
| 13 | I can not help feeling that the life Anna lived was at least lived in every sense of the word , rather than spent miserably , in gossip and the petty concerns of the women around her . |
| 14 | Her shy confession of love is in deep contrast to that of Natalia , who can not wait to show that her emotions are fully aroused when left alone with the same man . |
| 15 | If you cast a shrewd eye around the countryside in March , you can not fail to notice that spring is heralded not only by splashes of yellow celandines and pale primroses in the hedge-banks , but also by gleaming yellow diggers , hastily working their way up the watercourses to use up their allocated budget before the financial year ends on 1 April . |
| 16 | You can not help noticing that the incidence of fatalities among Boyd 's artistes seems remarkably high , even by the alarming standards of the pop business . |
| 17 | Given the clear-sightedness of his book , and the proximity of the National Theatre to the Palace of Westminster , you can not help feeling that it might be worth giving Mr Eyre a chance as well . |
| 18 | We can not afford to assume that all governments , ail public servants , will always be benign and free from corruption . |
| 19 | ‘ It is a foolish idea , but one can not help thinking that the mortal remains can still feel when the immortal soul is gone . |
| 20 | With the opening of the Channel Tunnel becoming a reality , and hopefully leading to a rise in rail traffic , one can not help thinking that had the magnificiently engineered GCR survived the troubled 1960's this would have been the chosen route for this traffic . |
| 21 | Life as seen from the platform at Paddington is most varied and one can not help thinking that an official who spends most of his time there must gain a vast knowledge of human nature … |
| 22 | But at the same time one can not help feeling that Proofs is the kind of story that would have been better off as a three-page essay in Granta . |
| 23 | But one can not help feeling that the description by the author of the Gesta Francorum , himself a knight , of the capture of Jerusalem in 1099 , is a more characteristic specimen of the ‘ religion ’ of twelfth-century knights . |
| 24 | Looking back over our century one can not help feeling that despite all the research , the new drugs and the improved surgical techniques , to say nothing of the introduction of health services in many western countries , the health of our societies has declined rather than improved . |
| 25 | However , it is not completely satisfactory ; one can not help feeling that there is some deeper explanation . |
| 26 | Yet , one can not help feeling that a book of this type , whatever its particular merits , has been overtaken by events and by other writings . |
| 27 | Although he might perhaps have done better to observe Wittgenstein 's adage , ‘ Whereof one can not speak , thereon one must be silent ’ , one can not help regretting that he has not tried to be less vague about the nature of personal growth . |
| 28 | When Anthony Crosland declared that the ‘ party is over , he can not have realized that the Government 's cuts presaged a long period in which the Labour Party itself would be seriously threatened — partly because of its association with supposedly spendthrift urban policies . |
| 29 | WHEN John Boorman took on the job of co-editing this anthology , which is intended to be an annual event , and writing the chronicle of 1991 which comprises almost half its contents , he can not have imagined that he would be revealing so much about the reasons for his own creative decline . |