Example sentences of "they [modal v] [coord] can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My dream is achievable because all we have to do is stop doing some of the things we are already doing : stop using the productive forces we have developed to create disabilities through warfare , environmental pollution and industrial accidents ; stop creating disabilities through poverty by using our vast wealth not in pursuit of capital accumulation and profit , but in ensuring that we all have the necessities to sustain material life ; and stop judging and treating people on the basis of the contribution they can or can not make to the development and operation of these productive forces . |
| 2 | Sometimes authorities are understood to be limited by the kinds of acts which they can or can not regulate ( given some restrictive ways of classifying acts ) . |
| 3 | The FDA can not tell American surgeons what they can and can not do to their customers . |
| 4 | Experiment and activity enable children to find out about things that they can and can not do . |
| 5 | Only the parents can specify what they can and can not do . |
| 6 | They need to share in the investigation and think through what they feel they can and can not do . |
| 7 | It is an opportunity for the field man to educate people into what they can and can not discharge into the river , and it contributes to a network of relationships which creates a means of learning about pollutions shortly after they occur . |
| 8 | This would lay down specifically when they can and can not play or rehearse . |