Example sentences of "[adv] can [not/n't] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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1 | Is it that institutions have to prepare people to work in traditional as well as up-to-date professional settings , and so can not afford to be too ‘ progressive ’ ? |
2 | They have satisfied all physical desire , but still can not bear to be parted . |
3 | The senior partner , Mr Alan Vickers , has been with the firm for 40 years but still can not claim to be the longest-serving member of staff . |
4 | But there is one person who still can not afford to be seen with The Quorn . |
5 | ‘ Where patient health can be at risk , you simply can not afford to be out of line with the programme of works . ’ |
6 | The difficulties in which Althusser subsequently became enmeshed were the result of his ignoring Canguilhem 's warning that although the history of science takes science for its object , it is not itself a science , and therefore can not claim to be value-free ( or , in Marxist terms , non-ideological ) . |