Example sentences of "can n't [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ca n't Alright And ! |
| 2 | But it 's n I still ca n't reconcile why it was kept secret cos surely this is a fundamental point cos it is because they ca n't openly declare that how that they are moving away from the United Front , but if they 're trying to show that they 're moving in line with the peasants ' demands surely they want to show that to the peasants an so there , there 's it 's more that how th the Party cadres have been acting out of step rather than them making it clear to the peasants . |
| 3 | Nor yet we ca n't no more hold their tide than I can hold this . |
| 4 | You ca n't physically restrain the children . |
| 5 | So the problem is , if your child wants to go , if one of our children wanted to go at midnight , I 'm fairly sure that everybody in this Council Chamber would have quite a reasonable way of er of retaining that child in the home but of course we 've all heard the stories of what happens when the unruly children in the children 's homes want to go out at midnight and I do think we we have a problem because with the report and the new legislation , we 're in the situation where there 's plenty of advice for us as to what to do , what not to do should I say , we ca n't we ca n't use pindown , you ca n't shut them in a room , you ca n't physically restrain them , so how does one of the workers in the home stop them from going out ? |
| 6 | like I said we at least to go on one complex exercise every month which , although they ca n't physically make you go on it there was , you know , they more or less made you go sort of thing pay to do and then we were there the other weekend we had one of these weekends where be more fun , really hard work though it 'll be more fun for |
| 7 | physically doing , you can always carry on , but you ca n't physically go out on appointments until you 're admitted , that 's what we 're saying . |
| 8 | ‘ We ca n't anyway , ’ said Marian . |
| 9 | No Paul , I ca n't anyway because of my back . |
| 10 | No , alright then , I ca n't anyway , oh |
| 11 | I ca n't yet , I have n't got me own voice , the poems are bad , yes , they 're bad , little stunted things . |
| 12 | ‘ There are things we ca n't yet contemplate doing because even if we did we do n't have the processing power to take advantage of them . ’ |
| 13 | The biochemistry of cells is basically just the chemistry of the larger molecules that the physicists ca n't yet deal with through quantum theory calculations . |
| 14 | And I ca n't yet afford a P C. |
| 15 | The same is true for the distribution of relative clauses , where we ca n't yet define the set of possible choices that the relative is selected from . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , Dr Rydell ca n't yet test this idea as he does n't know where his bats roost in the spring and autumn , but his case is supported by the behaviour of another insectivorous bat , the parti-coloured bat , in Denmark . |
| 17 | Early fits in a baby are one of a number of children 's disorders that we ca n't yet fully explain . |
| 18 | But the end of something ought to be the start of something else , and I ca n't yet feel what 's meant to be beginning . |
| 19 | ‘ Both Mr and Mrs Wyndham have multiple injuries , and , although we 're quite confident that they 'll both pull through , we ca n't yet say whether there will be any permanent damage . |
| 20 | The people have the spirit to overthrow oppression , but their imagination ca n't yet cope with overturning their stifling bureaucracy . |
| 21 | He says they ca n't yet say all the jobs are safe but they want to build a growing company . |
| 22 | The police ca n't yet prove any of these antiques has been stolen , but they are suspicious . |
| 23 | If you ca n't yet make up your mind about what to do with it , put it into a high interest-bearing account in your bank or building society until you do . |
| 24 | Ca n't yet . |
| 25 | No I ca n't yet . |
| 26 | I ca n't somehow see him in a red riding coat being winched aboard a dappled stallion . |
| 27 | I just ca n't somehow seem to … to take it all in , ’ she gasped , the magnitude of the disastrous tragedy suddenly beginning to penetrate her stunned mind . |
| 28 | I ca n't properly take it all in . |
| 29 | That chilled me in a way I ca n't properly describe . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , I never did , ’ said Mrs Beavis in astonishment , ‘ I ca n't 'ardly credit Sergeant Joe doin' a thing like that . |