Example sentences of "[be] [that] [pron] can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it pays to tramp around you see the problem with Jackie and Len has always been that they can not believe that you can get things in a place like W H Smith that will , that will do very nicely as a Christmas present , they tend to go |
| 2 | One lesson seems to be that we can not tell anything about the consequences of taxation . |
| 3 | The crucial lesson for all political parties must be that we can not take growth for granted , and above all , we should not plan in advance how to spend it . |
| 4 | Er , a knowledge but erm , I would have to move that we can not accept this recommendation because , it 's not that we do n't er support the scheme within this paper , but it 's that we can not accept . |
| 5 | The first is that we can not offer employment , as an LEA can if it decides , as ILEA and Havering have done , for instance , to recruit directly abroad . |
| 6 | ‘ The bad is that we can not expect sharp short term demand recovery , certainly not recovery pulled through by exports ’ , he explained . |
| 7 | The implication of our question is that we can not explain the decline of the Liberal party unless we mention the other factors . |
| 8 | As with problem solving , the difficulty with asking the right — questions is that we can not do so unless we already know the answer . |
| 9 | ‘ The problem with recycling is that we can not determine the colour of waste material in advance . |
| 10 | We can distinguish sceptical arguments which , although they attempt to deprive us of knowledge ( or even of justified belief ) still allow that we understand the propositions whose truth we are no longer allowed to know , from those which claim that the reason why we do n't know their truth is that we can not understand them . |
| 11 | I do n't expect the heartbeat award scheme to suffer , I will be in touch with Matthew fairly closely to ensure that , but I think the position of the labour group is that we can not support these recommendations as they are but we offer you a compromise solution . |
| 12 | The current problem is that we can not predict which of today 's options will become tomorrow 's mainstream . |
| 13 | But the plain truth is that we can not say what was really done for the children or what the results were . |
| 14 | The point is that we can not circumnavigate or dispose of these problems by resorting to the familiar logical ploy of treating questions about experiences as if they were simply questions about the logical properties of sentences in which we ordinarily talk about experiences . |
| 15 | The answer is that we can not know or , rather , that there is no simple solution to this problem . |
| 16 | Another thing we have to consider is that we can not afford to dispense with farm animals altogether . |
| 17 | My reply is that we can not afford not to do so . |
| 18 | My advice to the Government is that they can not sort out the problem this side of a general election , so why not get on with the job of laying the long-term foundations for a successful economy ? |
| 19 | The humiliation for some is that they can not talk to their English-speaking grandchildren . |
| 20 | What they really mean is that they can not find any acceptable community leadership to support . |
| 21 | Some BAT leaders have stated that the problem they have with places like Ballymurphy is that they can not get any community leadership to support , financially and otherwise . |
| 22 | The answer is that they can not help themselves . |
| 23 | The disadvantage that besets British firms is that they can not sell enough products in the UK to generate the cash needed to promote their wares overseas and develop new products . |
| 24 | The price of being a high achiever is that one can not stop . |
| 25 | The rule is that one can not claim for damage to the defective product itself or to any product which was supplied with the defective product comprised within it . |
| 26 | ‘ Part of the problem is that I can not come to terms with my image . |
| 27 | Outgoing FAXES are produced in much better quality than normal FAX machines as there is no ‘ scanning ’ of the original document — the only disadvantage is that you can not send an existing document , unless it has been previously sent to you , or you key it into Word processing or Desk Top Publishing . |
| 28 | The main thing about a hallway , however , is that you can not go anywhere in the house without passing through it . |
| 29 | On April 11 the Prime Minister , V. P. Singh , warned in a speech in the Lok Sabha ( lower house of parliament ) : " Our message to Pakistan is that you can not get away with taking Kashmir without a war . " |
| 30 | The trouble with this alien business is that you can not trust your senses . |