Example sentences of "that they can not [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , legislation could galvanise the power of older people , countering the ageist idea that they can not represent their own interests . |
| 2 | The Minister says that they can not bear it , but perhaps the Duke of Edinburgh has more feeling . |
| 3 | Museums have argued that they can not treat their collections as financial assets and that the task of valuing every item in a collection would be prohibitively expensive . |
| 4 | The Government say that they can not tell us the value of the companies because the information is commercially sensitive . |
| 5 | In a business or management sense it means that when an individual or a company identifies weaknesses , they hire staff or let contracts to handle those jobs that they can not handle themselves . |
| 6 | Any intellectual challenge is removed on the grounds that they can not handle it , and so all edge , all interest , is gone . |
| 7 | In the preceding section we emphasised the fact that revelation in Scripture is ‘ receptor-orientated ’ , not in the sense of affirming the hearers by telling them only what they want to hear , but by speaking specifically to their situation so that they can not miss what they need to hear . |
| 8 | The persons being processed into the speaker 's frame of reference may in so doing lose contact with their own , so that they can not relate their new knowledge to their life situation ; neither can they communicate it to others . |
| 9 | ‘ When sport is trying to come to terms with economic reality , I can think of one area in the business which will say as a result of this that they can not associate themselves with it — sponsorship . |
| 10 | ‘ When sport is trying to come to terms with economic reality , I can think of one area in the business which will say as a result of this that they can not associate themselves with it — sponsorship . |
| 11 | When these hatch , the young ants serve their captors , collecting food and feeding it to them , for the slave-makers have such large jaws that they can not feed themselves . |
| 12 | Many African farmers who are helped by western aid agencies to improve their crops find that they can not sell what they grow because local markets are swamped by cheap western imports — or by food aid . |
| 13 | Where a company is controlled by its directors , its expansion strategy may outgrow the resources of its directors so that they can not maintain their percentage holding through a series of costly rights issues or placings , with a consequential dilution of that holding . |
| 14 | They know that they can not have everything and that on occasions they may have to wait . |
| 15 | The kings ( or rather , queens ) of slave-owners are the Amazon ants , who are splendid at killing and enslaving other ants but have grown so dependent on their slaves that they can not dig their own nests , care for their young or even get their own food . |
| 16 | Treatment Centres tent to find that they can not predict which people are most likely to obtain lasting recovery . |
| 17 | The answer is that they can not help themselves . |
| 18 | It is true that they can not help it ; but does that matter ? |
| 19 | Some patients , especially after a head injury , may become disorientated while they are out , so that they can not find their way home . |
| 20 | Since the construction of these tests is on scientific principles , then everyone will accept , as some law of nature , that large numbers of children and adults are failed and excluded , and thus convinced that they can not learn anything valued by the education system . |
| 21 | There is no intention in these arguments to give any sustenance to the view that corporate officials have been so successfully socialized into the ‘ way of life ’ that they can not see what they are doing or that the organizational constraints upon them were so tight as to be ‘ coercive ’ and therefore excusing . |
| 22 | The water in which river dolphins live is so muddy that they can not see anything . |
| 23 | In order to read the story they must find it interesting or useful , and it must not be so detailed and technical that they can not understand it . |