Example sentences of "and [adv] we can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A final point that has to be borne in mind is that in order to make generalizations based on the type of quantitative analysis pioneered by Labov , a large number of tokens must be analysed ( usually thousands ) ; however , it happens that some variables that are quite salient in the community occur relatively rarely , and so we can not make reliable quantitative statements about these covering the range of speaker variables , even though they may be involved in linguistic change and may be important for historical projections on to earlier English . |
| 2 | But precisely because of that , sex and sexual representations are important to us , and so we can not allow a simple-minded anti-pornography consensus to stifle us . |
| 3 | These trends might of course represent the beginning of a change in progress , but if this is so , it is not yet established as a pattern that we can show by our methods as regular , and so we can not demonstrate that it is a change . |
| 4 | And hence we can not check on whether we are following the rule by recalling the original sensation . |
| 5 | It imposed it on our system of government , and now we can not change it , whether it was right or wrong . |
| 6 | And here we can not rely on particular instances of shared knowledge and experience . |
| 7 | After a short while the new way of moving begins to feel less strange and sometimes we can not understand how we could have moved so clumsily for so many years without realizing it . |