Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [adv] can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a general agreement from the most ardent Federalists to their staunchest opponents that the EEC simply can not continue in its present form . |
| 2 | Nonetheless , workaholism does exist when the sufferer simply can not stop doing his or her work in order to suppress uncomfortable emotions or change a disordered mood and despite severe negative consequences to his or her family and to the rest of a balanced life . |
| 3 | So , for example if somebody does reject a young man in a way that erm is n't appropriate in his eyes , he might then go around and start calling her all sorts of names and generally making other men think of her in bad way , and of course no eighteen year old woman wants young men to think badly of her , and so she puts pressure on herself not to reject advances too openly or too obviously or something like that , and the whole cycle starts again , and so and I think this is the sort of thing the college just can not have anything to do with , because that really is going too far , that 's interfering with the the one thing we could do , perhaps , is talk to the young women and make it clear that they do have the right to reject advances and that what they 've got to be concerned about whilst they 're at university is they 're academic career and making sure that that is n't affected by harassment . |
| 4 | ‘ Here we are having February weather in the middle of sheep shearing season and the animals simply can not cope with the conditions . |
| 5 | As the traders often can not spare the time to come to the staff restaurant , they can place their breakfast and lunch orders in advance and CCG staff serve them at their desks . |
| 6 | The review here can not claim to have gone into any great depth , but its purpose is correspondingly modest , and that is to provide some support to this generalisation . |
| 7 | Of course the words alone can not produce the effect . |
| 8 | The cannon therefore can not fire either this turn or the next turn . |
| 9 | The head alone can not overcome resistances and antagonisms which lie outside school . |
| 10 | But the argument still can not carry Mr. Browne all the way . |
| 11 | The Commission 's Director General Michael Dower said ‘ The countryside simply can not accommodate traffic growth of this order . |
| 12 | The Government certainly can not claim that it was a famous victory . |
| 13 | Of course , the various families of homoclinic orbits to the origin can not cross ( at any point in parameter space the two trajectories which tend in backward time to the origin are unique and can be part of at most one homoclinic orbit ) and the dotted lines representing homoclinic orbits to the points also can not cross ( for similar reasons ) . |
| 14 | On the one hand , the public and the profession surely can not accept leniency when a doctor indulges in indiscriminate showbiz type advertisement . |
| 15 | And of course it all ends happily when the Arab obviously can not bear to part with his horse : |
| 16 | The problem if you tuck for too many rows is that the needle just can not hold that many loops of yarn . |
| 17 | The land alone can not account for the size of the region Gloucester came to control ; that derived from royal office and royal backing . |
| 18 | The land alone can not account for the size of the region Gloucester came to control ; that derived from royal office and royal backing . |
| 19 | The image of a body simply can not do justice , we are saying , to the reality of — and our complex emotional reaction to — overpowering physical realities like the sea or the night-sky ( however much we may be told that the stars are a twinkle in God 's eye ! ) . |
| 20 | A business simply can not function this way . |
| 21 | The ruling means an employee working fewer than eight hours a week still can not qualify for redundancy pay or unfair dismissal , regardless of the number of weeks worked . |
| 22 | Indeed , so diverse are the pleasures awaiting you at Craigendarroch , I feel a letter alone can not do justice to them … |
| 23 | A system thus can not create or destroy energy . |