Example sentences of "[pron] can not [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't see them two paying out for somebody to look after it and I can not really I can not Seasons , well what you got on today ? |
| 2 | She can not mother her child and she can not mother her mother ; everything she did inclined towards death . |
| 3 | She can not mother her child and she can not mother her mother ; everything she did inclined towards death . |
| 4 | You can not will yourself to fight against the truth , he wrote . |
| 5 | You can not will yourself to hold out against reality . |
| 6 | You can not odds against the free newspapers coming through your doors , they 're a pain to all of us ! |
| 7 | It 's like , sort of thefts of motor vehicles , we can reduce the theft of the actual vehicle , because there are security devices now to do that , to make it harder and you can not odds somebody coming along the street , throwing a brick through a window and grabbing your cassette out . |
| 8 | Above all , ’ he went on , ‘ our royalty is to be reverenced , and if you begin to poke about it , you can not reverence it … |
| 9 | I fully I fully accept that , er you would obviously build in the facilities which are necessary , but the most of the settlements are limited by existing physical and other constraints , and those can not be overcome , you can not duel the A nineteen as far as Easingwold without very substantial harm , for example to the open countryside , even if it were physically possible and economically possible , to expand Easingwold , sorry , to expand Tadcaster to the required size , we 'd need to roll back greenbelt boundaries , again contrary to P P G two . |
| 10 | Finally , there is is n't a plating feeder on the SK210 , so you can not plate . |
| 11 | VIP guest George Pattison , the Dean of King 's College , Cambridge , won a rousing cheer at the ceremony when he told the crowd : ‘ I am disappointed we can not sentence anyone to the stocks today . |
| 12 | We can not mooch off without recording the 1991 Co Durham crime figures . |
| 13 | Obviously , we can not rate course we do not play , but that does not mean that they are bad courses . |
| 14 | This is why one can not season too fast without ruining the timber . |
| 15 | Predictably they will tell the adviser that they can not rehouse all those families and perhaps the tenant can contact the police . |
| 16 | Always check to make sure that electrical wires attached to the television or any other appliances , such as reading lamps , are well secured , so that they can not trip people up . |
| 17 | That does not mean , he wrote , that if the body does not protest the project necessarily has any value , though for reasons I have gone into already it is necessary to put such thoughts out of mind , they can not help , they can only hinder , they can not water , they can only blight . |
| 18 | They can not police the place for themselves or teach for themselves , yet 400 teachers face redundancy this year . |
| 19 | Thus it can not institute an action in the courts … |
| 20 | Moving to the capital market constraints , the takeover constraint is more or less unique to public liability companies though even then it can not impact strongly on the very largest companies . |
| 21 | As Pollitt notes ( 1986a , p. 165 ) ‘ a government can force its employees to go through the motions , but it can not mandate enthusiasm and commitment ’ . |