Example sentences of "[noun pl] can not do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five thousand ambulance drivers can not do their own negotiating — they need representatives to do it for them . |
| 2 | The cage is made of wire mesh with a sloping floor , and the hens can not do anything that comes naturally to them , such as stretch their wings , scratch around , dustbathe or perch . |
| 3 | What these animals can not do is localize sounds independently of their position relative to the animal 's body . |
| 4 | Generally , companies can not do much to help , although some try to employ relocated employees ' spouses or inform them of job vacancies in other firms in the area . |
| 5 | If she or her children return before the ashes become cold , it becomes again an ahi-ka , but there is a difference of opinion whether the grandchildren can recover their rights in that way , but there is no doubt that the great grandchildren can not do so unless they are expressly invited and welcomed by the tribe . " |
| 6 | Its spectrographs can analyse the ultraviolet light given off and absorbed by stars , galaxies , gas-clouds and other celestial paraphernalia , something which earthbound observers can not do because of the ozone layer . |
| 7 | Consultants can not do anything you ca n't do yourself . ’ |
| 8 | These few pages can not do justice to the array of benefits which a partnership with AEA could bring . |
| 9 | What instrumental techniques can not do is evaluate the sensory attributes of an odour , in particular its acceptability , nor can they compete with the human nose as far as sensitivity to most odours is concerned . |
| 10 | Political and economic pressures can not do it . |
| 11 | Local mechanics can not do the job , so once the US experts have left , the government will have the burden of spending limited foreign currency to buy spare parts from abroad . |
| 12 | In such circumstances what the doctors can not do is to conclude that if the patient still had had the necessary capacity in the changed situation he would have reversed his decision . |
| 13 | Housing is inefficiently heated because volume of construction is a more important planning indicator than fuel efficiency , not because the Soviets can not do better . |
| 14 | That is to say , it tended to focus on what children can not do rather than what they can do , and in ( rightly ) attending to their problems it underplayed or ignored their potential . |
| 15 | Five-year-olds can not do that . |
| 16 | To say that human beings can not do certain things is , of course , an extremely vague form of statement . |
| 17 | These beliefs about what low attainers can not do dictate and reflect the kind of learning experience these pupils have . |
| 18 | In effect , these and other private boutiques are doing the caring and monitoring that investment institutions can not do for themselves : the boutiques ' finance comes from pension funds , insurers and big companies . |
| 19 | A brief summary of the arthropods can not do justice to all the fascinating specialized groups — sea spiders and mites for example — that have an incomplete fossil record . |
| 20 | We can stand on our own two feet ; deep mines can not do so . ’ |