Example sentences of "[pers pn] can not [vb infin] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet I can not feel that Adam was to blame . |
| 2 | I can not think that Taggy would have been obliged to turn away her admirers otherwise . ’ |
| 3 | I can not pretend that Mr James 's book attains the same degree of enlightenment . |
| 4 | When pressed by journalists for an assurance that Koko is Nigeria 's only dump , the irritated Minister for Works and Housing snaps , ‘ I can not confirm that Koko is the only dump . |
| 5 | Much as I regard them as a social nuisance on a par with the Orange Walk and invented by the devil to prevent churchgoers getting to church on time , I can not claim that marathons have ( yet ) been proved to kill enough people to justify banning them . |
| 6 | I can not agree that women are the inferior of men . |
| 7 | Mr Clarke said later that no decision had been taken to do away with the pay formula , but he added : ‘ However I can not agree that firefighters should be an exception to the Government 's policy that in the current pay round the rises of all public sector employees should not exceed 1.5 per cent and that there could not be any catching up settlement thereafter . ’ |
| 8 | Both books talk of this power as being abnormal , but I can not believe that people have the power to just FLEX and move an object . |
| 9 | I can not say that Oldham ‘ dominated ’ the last 20 mins . |
| 10 | In fact , I can not see that sound symbolism can be discussed in any safe and effective manner without a basic knowledge of the articulatory or acoustic features of sounds . |
| 11 | It will be obvious by now that my account of the emergence of black sportsmen runs contrary to such views and I can not accept that blacks are ‘ made for physical things ’ any more than I can that their continued failure in more formal academic realms is based on inadequate intellectual resources . |
| 12 | Though you can not deny that Stalinvast needed cleansing of its parasites ! |
| 13 | I mean that you can not say that carp are generally nocturnal feeders , or morning feeders , or whatever . |
| 14 | We can not hope that Protestant and Catholic would begin peacefully to coexist once peace-keeping British soldiers had departed . |
| 15 | Certainly it is true that we can not expect that writers in Palestine thousands of years ago would have talked about sicknesses in the jargon of medical aetiology . |
| 16 | And , certainly , we can not assume that processes in writing are unvarying . |
| 17 | Just because Ms Average is a cooperative rather than competitive speaker , we can not assume that Jane Smith who is sitting in front of you will not deliver the goods . |
| 18 | In reality , such a debate misses the point of the parallelism : the question is not whether , taken in isolation , B is more precise than A , but whether " king of Moab " in B adds any precisions to what we already have in A. unquestionably it does ; however , we must admit that in the case of " Aram " II " the Eastern Hills " we can not say that B adds precision to A ( unless perhaps the poet knows something that we do not ) . |
| 19 | For in the circumstances of ordinary politics the checkerboard strategy will prevent instances of injustice that would otherwise occur , and we can not say that justice requires not eliminating any injustice unless we can eliminate all . |
| 20 | On the other hand , we can not say that people are making up their minds for themselves so long as they are largely unaware of the influences that are playing upon them , and so long as those influences are not essentially diverse and competitive , but generally combine to push their thinking , their attitudes and feelings in a single direction . |
| 21 | We can not see that power is a means of dealing with fear , of acting and doing in order to gain control over it ; when we are powerless our fears overwhelm us . |
| 22 | We can not see that power can be held in different ways , and that personal and professional relationships that work effectively are often a delicate balance see-sawing on power shifts . |
| 23 | But while many of the economic arguments favouring unrestricted insider dealing make interesting reading , they can not prove that insider dealing is desirable . |
| 24 | Although the University will do its best to avoid increases in fees , it can not guarantee that fees will be maintained at the same level for the duration of your course . |
| 25 | All fees are subject to annual review and although the University will do its best to avoid large increases , it can not guarantee that fees will be maintained at the same level for the duration of a student 's course . |
| 26 | The negative claim insists that a judge may not appeal to the law 's warrant for his decision when he can not show that conventions force him to do what he does , because the ideal is corrupted by any suggestion that past political decisions can yield rights and duties other than those dictated by convention . |