Example sentences of "one can not [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might conceivably be interested merely in a hypothetical situation , trying to decide , say , what consequences would follow if p were true , without wishing to commit myself one way or the other ( although , as will be shown later on , one can not coherently posit the possibility of p being true except with regard to possible truth claims that might be made in respect of it ) . |
| 2 | It is thus clear that the practice of was not without importance from the earliest days of the state and that in Molla Edebali and Tursun Fakih — perhaps also in the elusive Elvan Fakih and others there were men who performed much the same function as later Muftis ; but so scanty and uncertain is the available information about this early period that one can not confidently assert the existence , still less the continuity , of an officially designated post of Mufti . |
| 3 | Jacket in the first clause clearly must have a type reading — one can not repeatedly sell the same individual jacket . |
| 4 | Their professional achievements are so interwoven that one can not properly unravel the individual strands which make up the whole . |
| 5 | The worst of it is that one can not yet express a proper anger about the state of things , since it is just about possible that the Frauleins Krabbe , Breuer and Moller are innocent of any serious wrongdoing ( if that 's the right term ) in the affair of the Uniform Urine . |
| 6 | Because one can not simply enlarge the golgi picture to electron microscope size and follow any individual cell and its connections from beginning to end , it is hard to relate the spine changes seen in the golgi pictures directly to particular synapses seen in the electron microscope . |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | These categories are fixed : one can not readily induce an ectodermal cell to turn into muscle or bone . |
| 9 | In the more general case , in which there is no direct estimate of the expected variable , one can not merely see the actual value of a variable as a measure of the rational expectation of that variable , despite the fact that the two should differ only by a random error . |
| 10 | Even the simplest , most basic requirement we make of translation can not be met without difficulty : one can not always match the content of a message in language A by an expression with exactly the same content in language B , because what can be expressed and what must be expressed is a property of a specific language in much the same way as how it can be expressed . |
| 11 | But one can not really accept the notion that gifts of this kind were necessary to provide officials with incomes ‘ appropriate to their rank and responsibilities ’ . |
| 12 | However , one can not satisfactorily identify the question what a speaker meant in saying something with the question what caused his utterance . |
| 13 | One of the great advantages of working on a drama project , rather than on single , self-contained lessons , is that one can not only choose the duration but also the location of the drama lesson ; the work becomes integrative . |
| 14 | After all , one can not seriously expect the status of the GDR to change radically while the status of the FRG remains the same . |
| 15 | The theme and each variation are extremely brief , only eleven bars , and each finishes so quickly and changes mood so rapidly that at a first hearing one can not possibly grasp the course of events . |
| 16 | One can not quite understand the process of informalisation in European countries if one does not take into account that here too one can observe upward movements of working-class traditions and downward movements of middle-class traditions of conduct , although it is not possible to speak of the emergence of a new more firmly established code of conduct . |