Example sentences of "can not [verb] [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | That 's right so you then go into the en suite room , well I can not tell you the trouble I 've had from the en suite ! |
2 | The Government say that they can not tell us the value of the companies because the information is commercially sensitive . |
3 | So if you can not decide what the icon that looks like a milk churn with an overgrown mushroom beside it means you can select it and discover that it means Paste Clipboard contents — oh perhaps it is supposed to be a drawing pin besides a board but you could have fooled me ! |
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 | All this may seem like a put-off — but so many have died through lack of thought , facilities and impatience I can not give you the impression that they are going to be cheap and easy , quite the reverse ! |
6 | If they ca n't help you speak to the feed companies themselves , and if they can not give you the information you want do n't buy their feed , its as simple as that ! |
7 | But we can not smell what the dog can smell , nor interpret such scents , body postures and barks in the way our dog does . |
8 | We can not know what the future will bring ; nor did he . |
9 | Even the most experienced police interrogator can not entirely avoid leading questions , simply because he can not know what the witness actually knows or what really happened . |
10 | The point is that whether descriptions are knowledge or behaviour oriented , type or token , they can not determine what the teacher does . |
11 | It is very simple : the artist can not allow himself the luxury of letting himself be manipulated passively by our culture . |
12 | A man divided can not allow himself the luxury of complacency . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | At this stage , I can not say what the link will be , although I can say that it will be a dedicated , high-quality link . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Now it was a rule and the custom at the time that any of the staff could impose a fine on the spot and in this circumstance Fagan imposed a fine of 10 " ackers " — that is 10 piastres , which I can not remember what the value was at the time , but let us say it was something in the order of 5 . |
18 | I can not remember who the letter is from . |
19 | The context of this calm acquiescence is a rise in what I will call semi-literacy , which relies on the visual image and hardly at all on the printed word except as a medium of advertising , and genuinely can not see what the problem is . |
20 | The instructor can not see what the pupil does and the pupil can not see what the instructor wants . |
21 | The instructor can not see what the pupil does and the pupil can not see what the instructor wants . |
22 | It is one thing to demand efficiency and the just use of public resources ; it is quite another to impose conditions where the universities can not provide what the nation requires . |