Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] they can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet clubs are faced with court summonses , and threatened by closure because they can not afford to pay their rates and local councils refuse to waive part of the bill . |
| 2 | Their anxiety if they can not fill such a gap is close to laughable . |
| 3 | Many stay at home because they can not drive . |
| 4 | There are many people who collude with their partner , or loved one , or friend 's denial of loss or suffering because they can not face the other person 's pain and tears . |
| 5 | They can not suck from a mare and must be bottle fed if they still posses a suck reflex or by stomach tube if they can not suckle . |
| 6 | The other approach has been to argue that rats have difficulty with passive avoidance because they can not remember recent events . |
| 7 | Sometime genuinely strong potential acquirers will not enter into such a process because they can not react quickly . |
| 8 | In addition other purchasers , not wishing to miss a golden opportunity because they can not react quickly will attempt to insist that the seller grants them exclusive negotiating rights for a reasonable period of , for example , six weeks during which they should be able to agree a deal ; a so called lock out agreement . |
| 9 | AMERICAN businessmen have been A turning up their noses at video conferencing because they can not smell each other . |
| 10 | People in such situations are reaching the age when they can not cope physically or with the bureaucracy . |
| 11 | If the NTBs mean that firms face restriction on exports , they can be constrained from reaping economies of scale because they can not expand their output beyond the limits imposed by their domestic market . |
| 12 | It is no good anyone complaining about the state of affairs in the world if they can not get their own town into some semblance of order . |
| 13 | While radio can overcome the problem of illiteracy in reaching a mass audience in a country like Tanzania , a large part of that audience may be unable to ‘ talk back ’ to the radio because they can not write . |
| 14 | Our apprentices regularly leave Britain for training because they can not obtain it here . |
| 15 | It is unfair to other members of staff to be late on duty as they can not leave a reception desk unattended . |
| 16 | What are the prospects of disconnection for industrial customers in the coming year if they can not afford to pay the exorbitant increases that the electricity companies are seeking from them ? |
| 17 | Similarly , bankers become committed to a customer if they can not withdraw facilities without causing that customer financial distress . |
| 18 | Either way , the new recruit 's earnings are greatly reduced , and some legal assistants continue in their salaried position because they can not afford a partnership . |
| 19 | ‘ It is unfair on the public because they can not know why some waiting lists are longer than others . ’ |
| 20 | They therefore exclude married women , people who have retired early , those on Youth Training Schemes and other Employment Training ( ET ) courses , those who have returned unwillingly to school because they can not find jobs , those on short-time work , and others . |
| 21 | Many people now go without the necessary treatment because they can not afford prescriptions . |
| 22 | Hard up old folk will be forced to go without medicine because they can not afford it , Age Concern said today . |