Example sentences of "[adv] we can not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally we can not always totally ignore the views of others but , If you know you are doing your job as well as you can , remember it is your own opinion which counts . |
| 2 | I father that he does not sell very well in this country ( nor does Brahms for that matter ! ) , yet apparently we can not get enough of the ‘ Four Seasons ’ , and second-rate opera arias ! |
| 3 | And erm , on the er , item twenty five , might there be an opportunity , with the agreement that we 're going to deal with in item D are n't we , er , with the social serv with the er , health authority , are under suspicion that a lot of the er , personal care we offer through that system ought really to be offered by district nurses , erm , and I wonder whether that 's erm , can we , perhaps we can not establish that . |
| 4 | Obviously we can not know the outcome of a new project , so let's consider how we might have proceeded 31 years ago . |
| 5 | Obviously we can not choose our parents but we can do a great deal to improve the shape , form and texture of these problem areas . |
| 6 | Obviously we can not simply rely on the raw figures if we wish to consider whether local authority expenditure had grown since the £9,230 million spent in 1974 — the year of reorganisation . |
| 7 | By contrast the single malignant polyp identified as expressing a mutant type p53 protein did not seem to contain a mutation at codon 12 of the K-ras gene , although obviously we can not current exclude the presence of codon 13 or 61 mutations . |
| 8 | But precisely because of that , sex and sexual representations are important to us , and so we can not allow a simple-minded anti-pornography consensus to stifle us . |
| 9 | So we can not characterize the difference between inside and outside in terms of freedom vs. determinism . |
| 10 | So we can not work out the length of the whole period simply by adding up all the figures given . |
| 11 | A final point that has to be borne in mind is that in order to make generalizations based on the type of quantitative analysis pioneered by Labov , a large number of tokens must be analysed ( usually thousands ) ; however , it happens that some variables that are quite salient in the community occur relatively rarely , and so we can not make reliable quantitative statements about these covering the range of speaker variables , even though they may be involved in linguistic change and may be important for historical projections on to earlier English . |
| 12 | These trends might of course represent the beginning of a change in progress , but if this is so , it is not yet established as a pattern that we can show by our methods as regular , and so we can not demonstrate that it is a change . |
| 13 | So we can not have a strategy for teacher development any more than a teacher can have a strategy for child development . |
| 14 | ‘ We were only four wins behind Chris Dickson so we can not be too bad . ’ |
| 15 | So we can not become complacent or leave START to do the job alone , because it is not enough by itself . |
| 16 | Anywhere the road is wide enough , they are congregating so we can not anticipate where they will be . |
| 17 | On grounds of theory alone we can not tell which effect will be the stronger , i.e. whether higher taxes on income will raise or lower the time devoted to work rather than leisure ( where , of course , the worker has some choice ) . |
| 18 | Thus we can not rely solely on a single source , that is , the evidence given by one person . |
| 19 | Electron microscopy of intestinal biopsies was not done in our study , thus we can not rule out the possibility that microsporidia were present . |
| 20 | They are taking responsibility , either they agree with their government or they do not agree with their government , but to pretend that somehow we can not at all , some of the cuts that are made , that the f the other , does not convince us , I 'm sure it does not convince the people on our right and even less more convincing than the people who are listening to us today . |
| 21 | Whether we are purely material or not we can not know ; but being so would not be inconsistent with immortality , and we have the guarantee of revelation that we are , in fact , immortal . |
| 22 | Still we can not compare those days with these . |
| 23 | We continue to be pleased to hear by word of mouth that Medau News is ‘ interesting ’ , ‘ well-presented ’ and ‘ a good idea ’ … this is , of course , very gratifying but still we can not inveigle you into putting pen to paper and writing to us . |
| 24 | The play 's strength is that it draws on Eliot 's earlier work and makes that earlier work transferable to the West End , a triumph in itself ; its weakness , like that of most of the plays , is that it offers us little we can not find more concisely and intensely expressed in the poetry . |
| 25 | Some degree of shared morality is essential to this minimum of cohesion , and any weakening of moral belief may reduce it below this minimum ; hence we can not bind ourselves not to use the law to safeguard existing moral beliefs , no matter how peripheral they may appear to be . |
| 26 | And hence we can not check on whether we are following the rule by recalling the original sensation . |
| 27 | Hence we can not expect markets and prices to ensure that the marginal benefits of making a noise are equated to the marginal cost of that noise to other people . |
| 28 | But here also we can not predict how the couplet will proceed ; not only do we not yet know the grammatical or syntactic pattern of the next line , or its lexical contents , but , more importantly , we do not know what kind of a relationship what we have read will bear to what we have yet to read . |
| 29 | Clearly we can not set aims of ‘ changing attitudes ’ — these are not objective and neither are they stable . |
| 30 | Clearly we can not as yet give a definitive answer to this question . |