Example sentences of "[adv] can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They eliminate what I call the " instinct " reporter , who perhaps can not pass exams but who is still street-wise , intelligent and eager . |
| 2 | The Left believes that , generally , given the concentrated forces arrayed against them , people perhaps can not get into ‘ real politics ’ . |
| 3 | Nor need your eyes miss seeing what your feet perhaps can not take you to . |
| 4 | Because proceedings are now pending , I obviously can not comment any further . ’ |
| 5 | He concludes that changes in genetic factors obviously can not explain the crime wave . |
| 6 | I obviously can not swear allegiance to the principles of equal opportunities then justify the exclusion of some students purely because of the severity of their disability . |
| 7 | There must be quite a number of readers who have had Uxbridge Cottage Pie at some time — and I obviously can not tell how the 1991 version compared with earlier versions — but I can say that I enjoyed this particular dish and that the taste and texture were very good . |
| 8 | And of course it all ends happily when the Arab obviously can not bear to part with his horse : |
| 9 | The technicalities of local government finance obviously can not avoid the political nature of the decisions being taken ( Sharpe and Newton 1984 ) . |
| 10 | Since monographs can go out of print a year after publication , and since the heaviest use of monographs is normally in the year and a half following publication , librarians obviously can not rely upon reviews as a selection tool . |
| 11 | In the UK , market researcher Andy Ryman says : ‘ The name of any new development obviously can not clash with any other competitor developments in the area . |
| 12 | I obviously can not give that guarantee . |
| 13 | I would say in employment yes , or people that want to get employment example would be yeah at M D secretary suddenly shot into the job of producing the company newspaper now I mean somebody like very quickly has to get to grips with this obviously can not give up six months to go and do it so you do it on a half day release basis . |
| 14 | On the battlefield , a night patrol about to scout out the lie of the land , or mount a surprise attack , obviously can not afford to stumble around with flashlights pointing in all directions . |
| 15 | If you obviously can not get down ahead or if you have doubts about it , then you have no alternative but to turn off , but check your speed first ! |
| 16 | Following the laughter C , who apparently can not see the photograph , asks " what was I wearing ? " : her London English response to the Creole comment which elicited the laughter . |
| 17 | When they reacted the drug with a self complementary two ’ stranded , six-base DNA chain , they found that the hydrogen bonding which holds the two strands together can not compete with the bonding of the platinum complex to adjacent guanine groups ( see Figure ) . |
| 18 | Real life together can not work by force |
| 19 | Practolol and benoxaprofen show , however , that such a cosy partnership not only can not stand the strain of a disaster , but also leads to a complete paralysis of action in the resultant crisis . |
| 20 | This deserves special mention because , on the assumption that various conditions which appear to be satisfied by the return maps are actually satisfied , this attractor is probably the only well understood strange attractor known in a system of " natural " three-dimensional differential equations ; we have strong reasons to suppose that there can be no stable orbits in a relatively large parameter range , as opposed to the normal " chaotic attractors where one merely can not observe them but has no arguments to suggest they can not exist ( they may be of extremely high period or have very complicated basins of attraction see { 8 } ) . |
| 21 | Wages are seen as flexible upwards but ‘ sticky ’ downwards , so that rises in can not decrease the real wage rate but falls in can increase it ( illustrated in Fig. 10–5 as ) . |
| 22 | Nowadays we literally can not afford to neglect the investment , the hard financial investment , stored in our built environment . |
| 23 | Likewise , a plaintiff whose contract entitles him to his wages during incapacity has suffered no loss of wages and so can not recover damages for lost wages . |
| 24 | On the one hand , the Keynesian version of the model assumes a constant price level and so can not analyse the problem of inflation . |
| 25 | A mortar has no wheels or other means to move it once it is on the battlefield , and so can not move other than turn on the spot to face its target . |
| 26 | I DID not see the London Marathon this weekend , and so can not complain about it too loudly , but my heartfelt sympathy goes out to those who found themselves confronted by 25,000 runners , all anxious to show how goodhearted they were and what fun they were having . |
| 27 | Clearly , if the knowledge that classes A and B were once distinct is no longer present in speakers ' minds , they can not pick out the class B items and so can not separate them from the merged class and then re-merge them with a completely different class . |
| 28 | The detective inspector went on , in tones totally devoid of emphasis , ‘ Unfortunately Dr Iverson went out after the dinner-party to pay a late visit to a man with pneumonia about whom he was worried an so can not tell us anything about the time immediately after the guests had left . |
| 29 | I have never eaten brawn — no doubt I should do so — so can not comment on it except to say that it is made from the pig 's head which is simmered with herbs and spices ; the resulting meat is set in the naturally produced aspic . |
| 30 | Cantril died in 1969 and so can not comment on this phenomenon . |