Example sentences of "[adv] can not stand " in BNC.
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| 1 | Practolol and benoxaprofen show , however , that such a cosy partnership not only can not stand the strain of a disaster , but also leads to a complete paralysis of action in the resultant crisis . |
| 2 | Then he dropped his bombshell — it was only available in injectable form and I just can not stand needles . ’ |
| 3 | I just can not stand lack of consideration for others : shown by people who park their cars so close that you have to slide in sideways — cleaning both cars with your clothes as you squeeze through the 2in space left for opening the door . |
| 4 | It is no accident that certain adjectives which can appear as postnominal , but not prenominal , attributives do also appear in predicative position , while , on the other hand , certain adjectives which only occur prenominally can not stand as predicatives : ( 33 ) the robber was asleep not noticing the robber asleep , they missed their revenge the asleep robber ( 34 ) their proposals are sheer lunacy their lunacy is sheer lunacy sheer of this sort is unsurprising |
| 5 | I also can not stand being ‘ rushed at ’ to be embraced in the manner she adopts — I decide who touches me , kisses me or who does not … nobody else ! ! |
| 6 | ‘ I really can not stand this . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ After I stopped eating factory-farmed meat I now can not stand the feeling of eating flesh . |
| 8 | ‘ I , ’ said my sister-in-law , who never , I am sure , means to be offensive , ‘ simply can not stand being idle . |
| 9 | in Director of Public Prosecutions v. Byrne [ 1991 ] R.T.R. 119 , 125 , all based , as it seems to me , on a misreading of a few words in an earlier judgment as enunciating a proposition which simply can not stand with the statutory language . |
| 10 | Now if there is one thing I absolutely can not stand , it is snoring . |