Example sentences of "we can not [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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1 | Due to the constraints of the Trove system we can not show you the policies as they are actually printed . |
2 | We can not tell who the members of such a union might be . |
3 | But we can not smell what the dog can smell , nor interpret such scents , body postures and barks in the way our dog does . |
4 | Perhaps by contemplating you will find something that is wrong in your proposition … dig the gold and look at the country , but we can not give you the country you ask for . |
5 | We can not know what the future will bring ; nor did he . |
6 | We can not say what the outcome of a meeting of the Defence Committee might have been , or whether the course of events would have been altered if it had met in September 1981 ; but , in our view , it could have been advantageous , and fully in line with Whitehall practice , for Ministers to have reviewed collectively at that time , or in the months immediately ahead , the current negotiating position ; the implications of the conflict between the attitudes of the Islanders and the aims of the Junta ; and the longer-term policy options in relation to the dispute . |
7 | We can not say what the scope of such a review should be in respect of the machinery 's wider preoccupations , but we think that it should look at two aspects in particular . |
8 | We can not say what the occupation of Germany will involve at the moment , or what will be our obligations in the East and at home . |
9 | We can not allow ourselves the empty luxury of doubt . ’ |
10 | If we take such a " bat-detector " out to a clearing where a bat is feeding , we shall hear when each bat pulse is emitted , although we can not hear what the pulses really " sound " like . |