Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] to [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To say that the patient can not demand to be stabbed because he can not suspend the operation of the criminal law and absolve the other of liability begs the question , depending as it does on a determination of what the criminal law is . |
| 2 | but we can not demand to be desired , for desire operates in complex , often unconscious ways . |
| 3 | And Michael Palin can not bear to be scrutinised . |
| 4 | Intense pains , neuralgic pains , can not bear to be touched , in agony ; worse ( < ) night and especially in the evening . |
| 5 | They have satisfied all physical desire , but still can not bear to be parted . |
| 6 | Red , oedematous swelling ; burning and stinging pains ; face puffed and pitted ; swollen eyelids ; can not bear to be left alone ; very sensitive to touch or pressure ; sweat comes and goes . |
| 7 | But Scotland , with an economic base now concentrated on light rather than heavy industry , and services and decision-making centres far away from Edinburgh and Glasgow , can not hope to be spared the effects of recession . |
| 8 | Since young managers can not expect to be rewarded for good short-term performances , there is less incentive to work for short-term results at the expense of longer-term benefits . |
| 9 | Mr Crosby said : ‘ I also have 10 important League matches left and have said all along that if we do n't win these as well I can not expect to be given the job here . ’ |
| 10 | Over a twelve-month period a field-worker 's persistent inquisitiveness is bound to become something of an irritant , and van Maanen notes how field-workers can not expect to be liked by all respondents ( 1982 : 111 ) . |
| 11 | You can not expect to be asked the questions exactly as they appear here and you will be badly thrown if you have programmed yourself with exact responses to very particular questions which do not crop up in the way you had anticipated . |
| 12 | If a surveyor does his work badly it goes without saying that he can not expect to be paid for it , but usually the client will also wish to claim damages as financial compensation . |
| 13 | Indeed , you can not expect to be paid a great deal , but on the credit side you have no overheads and you will find the practice valuable , both in reading the pattern and using the machine . |
| 14 | For I can not expect to be offered help , nobody else will care to take a turn at the heavy work of pushing . |
| 15 | You can not expect to be taken seriously with a bovine 's milking tackle perched on your bonce . |
| 16 | Teenagers who consistently fail to let parents know when they will be home , or where they are likely to be , can not expect to be allowed to stay out to all hours . |
| 17 | Anyone of a moderately sensitive disposition , who is not in the thrall of what Aldous Huxley termed their ‘ idiot monologue ’ of petty rigmarole , but who is sufficiently inwardly tranquil and open to the influence of the landscape , can not fail to be struck by the uncanny quality which the chalk ‘ breathes out ’ at different times of day under particular atmospheric conditions . |
| 18 | Moreover , if the perspective is lengthened to include the Victorian period the observer can not fail to be struck by a feeling of historical déjà vu [ Kirby , 1981 ] . |
| 19 | Even the most veteran balletomane can not fail to be moved by the production and the dying swan scene at the end brought a few tears in the audience . |
| 20 | It will come as no surprise to discover , then , that Spencer was highly critical of statutory intervention , arguing that it stifled liberty and led to rigidity and uniformity : ‘ Society , a living growing organism , placed within apparatuses of dead , rigid , mechanical formulas , can not fail to be hampered and pinched . ’ |
| 21 | Moreover , because the bad copy by definition can not claim to be copying anything but itself , it creates its ‘ original ’ retroactively , so that the copy precedes the original in a ghostly originary repetition . |
| 22 | ( a ) Murder and serious non-fatal offences ( except for games , chastisement , etc ) : a person can not consent to being killed , nor can one consent to grievous bodily harm . |
| 23 | But there is one person who still can not afford to be seen with The Quorn . |
| 24 | Russia can not afford to be flanked by newly nuclear states on its southern borders ; or to allow the ethnic strife in and between ex-Soviet republics to turn nuclear ; or to see extremists among its own fissiparous peoples demand independence on pain of nuclear terrorism . |
| 25 | The argument for feminist education , free from male control , is not as a remedial exercise , it is because we have important work to do together , from which we can not afford to be distracted by the interference and destruction we know happens when men remain in control . |
| 26 | They know perfectly well that we can not afford to be left out . |
| 27 | Economically , we can not afford to be excluded from a group that includes most of our main trading partners , including our biggest partner of all , the Federal Republic of Germany . |