Example sentences of "i can not [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But we have nothing against foreign investment in British companies , and I can not think why the Hon. Gentleman should take that line . |
| 2 | I can not examine here the way in which this view of religious knowledge can be paralleled within other traditions ( in the eighth century A.D. , for instance , there was a debate within Islam along lines similar to the sixteenth-century Christian debate over faith and works ) . |
| 3 | Because I am a writer caught up willy-nilly in the polluted air of our own times , because I can not avoid entirely the language , assumptions , behaviour and weirdly chiliastic bombast so typical of a corrupted age , I can force myself to imagine by what tormented mental process an educated and rational man of some sensibility moves from the cerebral subtleties of Keynsian economics to the animal crudities of purchasing unsatisfactory and momentary sexual release from a cheap little whore . |
| 4 | I can not emphasise enough the importance of daydreams for the writer in you . |
| 5 | I narrow my eyes to stare into his ; the light of the pub is dim as dust and I can not make out the pinpoints . |
| 6 | I have gradually changed my life style and I can not stress enough the relief of being able to walk , run and do exercise without pain . |
| 7 | I can not ignore even the slightest chance that she may have survived . |
| 8 | I can not bear even the most distant apprehension that I have not the preference with you of any man living . |
| 9 | I can not emphasize enough the amount of care needed in this process , so if you are in any doubt about the outcome , do not attempt it . |
| 10 | Team manager John Louis said last night , ‘ Miroslaw has all the status of a world star and I can not understand why the request was refused . |
| 11 | I can not understand why the hon. and learned Gentleman says that it is not so . |
| 12 | I can not understand how the Government sends a man out to fight us , as it did General Miles , and then breaks his word . |
| 13 | I have details here of scores of cases , but as I can not take up the time of the House in referring to all of them , I will pick one or two examples . |
| 14 | That is why I can not exempt even the smallest flocks selling eggs for human consumption from our strict testing requirements . ’ |
| 15 | Indeed , all in all , I can not see why the option of her returning to Darlington Hall and seeing out her working years there should not offer a very genuine consolation to a life that has come to be so dominated by a sense of waste . |
| 16 | ‘ Undoubtedly if the justices had proceeded to adjudicate on the case either by convicting or by acquitting the defendant , that would have afforded ground for a good plea to the indictment , but I can not see why the fact that the justices at first said they would deal summarily with the case and afterwards changed their minds should be said to have deprived quarter sessions of jurisdiction . |
| 17 | But the fact remains that while local authorities demonstrate their continued inability to use the resources that are already at their disposal , when so many Labour-controlled authorities can not even be bothered to collect the huge sums in uncollected rent , I can not see why the hon. Gentleman should be concerned about the level of rents . |
| 18 | I can not see why the actuary having a liability for an employee , if that employee becomes a deferred pensioner that the actuary having a liability for the fund |
| 19 | I can not see how the canon of poetry could avoid being constructed along historical lines , though the problem and implications of canon-formation should be faced , as part of theoretical study . |
| 20 | ‘ I can not remember where the money went , ’ Saadoum quoted the official as saying . |
| 21 | I can not imagine why the Conservatives have not been campaigning harder on this issue . |
| 22 | However , as fortune would have it , when I put my ear to M. Dupont 's door , I happened to hear Mr Lewis 's voice , and though I can not recall precisely the actual words I first heard , it was the tone of his voice that raised my suspicions . |