Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [not/n't] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For I can not expect to be offered help , nobody else will care to take a turn at the heavy work of pushing . |
| 2 | Mr Crosby said : ‘ I also have 10 important League matches left and have said all along that if we do n't win these as well I can not expect to be given the job here . ’ |
| 3 | So I can not claim to be an expert , but I have been considering spending my own money on America this year . |
| 4 | I can not afford to be some kind of armchair politician . |
| 5 | You can not expect to be asked the questions exactly as they appear here and you will be badly thrown if you have programmed yourself with exact responses to very particular questions which do not crop up in the way you had anticipated . |
| 6 | Believe in God for wrong reasons or for no reason at all and you can not expect to be free from doubt . |
| 7 | Indeed , you can not expect to be paid a great deal , but on the credit side you have no overheads and you will find the practice valuable , both in reading the pattern and using the machine . |
| 8 | You can not expect to be taken seriously with a bovine 's milking tackle perched on your bonce . |
| 9 | ‘ You can not expect to be in the national squad unless you can prove that you are good enough , so I just have to continue the learning process , equip myself fully for the task , get a bit fitter and that , hopefully , will be at least half the battle ’ . |
| 10 | MONDAY : On to the tiny island of Nisyros , you can not fail to be impressed by the image of perfectly white houses , dense greenery and volcanic soil . |
| 11 | Because if you do , you can not fail to be deeply impressed by the very many ways in which high-fibre foods can help you to slim , and to come to the conclusion that the F-Plan is that major slimming breakthrough everyone has been seeking for so long . |
| 12 | Whether or not the teaching of study skills already features on your syllabus , we feel you can not fail to be impressed by A Study Skills Handbook and its relevance to the university student . |
| 13 | Even during the quiet moments you can not fail to be amused by the range of items on offer from edible underwear to garlic chewing gum . |
| 14 | One senses disappointment from Morgan : ‘ Watching them on video , you can not fail to be impressed by their repeated ability to get men behind the ball , which is the biggest thing in sevens . ’ |
| 15 | As one described it , neighbourhood policing requires constables who know that ‘ All you learn in the classroom is what your powers are ’ , and that ‘ You do n't learn about the real facts of police work until you 're out actually doing it ’ , and that you can not afford to be ‘ heavy-handed ’ . |
| 16 | You can not afford to be within range of the knife ; one stab in the wrong place and it 's all over . |
| 17 | After having amassed around 200 hours on the Corsair since purchasing it in 1982 , the novelty of flying this beast has not diminished : ‘ Today I feel that every flight in the Corsair is as exciting as the first , mainly because with the Corsair you can not afford to be complacent , as the aircraft will sometimes bite back , so I have to be alert all the time while I am flying ’ . |
| 18 | Finally , look after your health — if you are really going to the top enormous demands are going to be made on your time and strength and you can not afford to be careless . ’ |
| 19 | You can not afford to be without this brilliant package . |
| 20 | None of these difficulties are likely to trouble us much in daily life , but they remain genuine difficulties none the less and raise issues of fundamental importance ; for if there can be no absolutely reliable and unequivocal criteria for deciding whether any given existent remains numerically , and not merely qualitatively , the same from one moment in time to the next , then we can not hope to be able to " define " the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity in terms of the criteria of particular-identification . |
| 21 | but we can not demand to be desired , for desire operates in complex , often unconscious ways . |
| 22 | By the textuality of history , I mean to suggest , firstly , that we can have no access to a full and authentic past , a lived material existence , unmediated by the surviving textual traces of the society in question — traces whose survival we can not assume to be merely contingent but must rather presume to be at least partially consequent upon complex and subtle social processes of preservation and effacement ; and secondly , that those textual traces are themselves subject to subsequent textual mediations when they are construed as the ‘ documents ’ upon which historians ground their own texts , called histories . |
| 23 | As a PLC we would have the greater freedom and flexibility vitally needed to match the increasing pace of change and to provide new or different services — and we can not afford to be too slow or too late . |
| 24 | But we can not afford to be so self-indulgent and dismissive . |
| 25 | The argument for feminist education , free from male control , is not as a remedial exercise , it is because we have important work to do together , from which we can not afford to be distracted by the interference and destruction we know happens when men remain in control . |
| 26 | We can not afford to be complacent , but I do not believe complacency is in the vocabulary of any one of you . |
| 27 | Economically , we can not afford to be excluded from a group that includes most of our main trading partners , including our biggest partner of all , the Federal Republic of Germany . |
| 28 | They know perfectly well that we can not afford to be left out . |
| 29 | Contractors will reluctantly say , ’ No , we simply can not do your work because we can not afford to be out of the money for that period . ’ |
| 30 | Northern Ireland companies have been successful in the area of export development but they can not afford to be complacent about what lies ahead . |