Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] to [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People expect risks they did not ask for and can not control to be much lower -by 10 or 100 times — than those which they run willingly . |
| 2 | The aim of this small investigation , which can not hope to be truly scientific , is to investigate the extent of the problem and to see if there are any obvious patterns . |
| 3 | By the textuality of history , I mean to suggest , firstly , that we can have no access to a full and authentic past , a lived material existence , unmediated by the surviving textual traces of the society in question — traces whose survival we can not assume to be merely contingent but must rather presume to be at least partially consequent upon complex and subtle social processes of preservation and effacement ; and secondly , that those textual traces are themselves subject to subsequent textual mediations when they are construed as the ‘ documents ’ upon which historians ground their own texts , called histories . |
| 4 | Because if you do , you can not fail to be deeply impressed by the very many ways in which high-fibre foods can help you to slim , and to come to the conclusion that the F-Plan is that major slimming breakthrough everyone has been seeking for so long . |
| 5 | Kevin Wilson was another who had a fine game ; he has developed into a player Northern Ireland can not afford to be without . |
| 6 | Dr Dan Tunstall-Pedoe , a cardiologist who directs the Marathon 's medical team , can not afford to be quite so sanguine . |
| 7 | But we can not afford to be so self-indulgent and dismissive . |
| 8 | Reforming officials within both the prison system and the criminal justice process can not afford to be merely reactive . |
| 9 | As a PLC we would have the greater freedom and flexibility vitally needed to match the increasing pace of change and to provide new or different services — and we can not afford to be too slow or too late . |
| 10 | In summer , field men can not afford to be too tolerant of pollution , especially with watercourses exposed to the greater scrutiny that comes with recreational use . |
| 11 | Is it that institutions have to prepare people to work in traditional as well as up-to-date professional settings , and so can not afford to be too ‘ progressive ’ ? |