Example sentences of "certainly can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , these are for the most part of very low quality and certainly can not meet the needs of the poorest sectors . |
| 2 | However , it would be wrong for the Government to hype the Bill too much , and to raise expectations which they certainly can not meet . |
| 3 | I certainly can not stop you and she is not here to ask . ’ |
| 4 | However true this may be for the economic development of the United States — and even there such contentious hypotheticals are highly dubious — it certainly can not hold good for European expansion and supremacy in the later nineteenth century . |
| 5 | But Bulgaria and Yugoslavia are more than preoccupied with their internal affairs , and certainly can not contemplate military expeditions to rescue the Romanians . |
| 6 | DURATION : You certainly can not hope to see all that Amsterdam has to offer on a two night stay so either be selective or maybe stay longer . |
| 7 | The sociology of religion certainly can not tell us what we ought to believe — or even whether any particular belief is true or false — except , perhaps , in so far as the belief makes empirical claims or predictions — but , even then , we must remember , religions do deal in miracles , and they do celebrate paradox . |
| 8 | We certainly can not create it and thus , in view of our ignorance on one hand and our inability on the other , what right have we to terminate this gift of a beneficent Creator ? |
| 9 | As Lord Dacre , you certainly can not do so . ’ |
| 10 | All this adds up to the likelihood that the Government can not sort out the economy in the very short term and certainly can not do so this side of the general election ; they can not generate the feeling of happiness and cheerfulness about the economy which parties traditionally rely upon to win general elections . |
| 11 | I certainly can not go beyond what I have said this afternoon and on earlier occasions , including what I have told the hon. Gentleman in the Select Committee , about the guarantee of SERPS rights — to put it in shorthand terms — in respect of the guaranteed minimum pension . |
| 12 | I can not comment on the details , and I certainly can not promise a statement next week . |
| 13 | Even if it were possible to identify a certain causal agent inside someone 's head we certainly can not take off the top of the skull and mend it ! |
| 14 | It seems probable that a mixture of the two factors is involved , but we can not be sure that this is the case and we most certainly can not say which is more important than the other — let alone quantify ( in terms of percentages ) their relative importances . |
| 15 | I am happy that he is receiving education suitable to age , ability and aptitude at home , in fact , between ourselves , it is probably more appropriate and worthwhile than that which he is likely to be receiving at school — not through any fault in the local schools but because schools can not always provide ideal circumstances for all learning and certainly can not provide the context in which John is operating . |
| 16 | The Government certainly can not claim that it was a famous victory . |
| 17 | Money may be able to buy flying time , but it can not buy skill — and it most certainly can not guarantee success in an aerobatic championship . |
| 18 | But we need not only to learn how to look at the world with the eyes of a Mexican Indian — and I hardly think that Lawrence succeeded — and we certainly can not afford to stop there . |
| 19 | They certainly can not afford many more marital failures . |
| 20 | We certainly can not bank on the 49 per cent increase in the size of the Bar which has occurred in the last 10 years . |
| 21 | Our support can only be effective to the extent that these universals obtain ; it certainly can not substitute for them . |
| 22 | The uncertainty principle signaled an end to Laplace 's dream of a theory of science , a model of the universe that would be completely deterministic : one certainly can not predict future events exactly if one can not even measure the present state of the universe precisely ! |