Example sentences of "[noun prp] can [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gazza can not wait to be one of them again . |
| 2 | Like Trolls , Grom can not regenerate wounds suffered from flames or burning . |
| 3 | ‘ Mr Lang can not expect co-operation or tolerance unless policies change and Downing Street shows a genuine willingness to respond to the Scottish people . ’ |
| 4 | Ian Lang can not remain complacently sitting on his hands in the face of an economic crisis which is damaging all our communities and condemning more than 80,000 Scots to long-term unemployment , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Thus , Pace argues , Corbett can not serve as the authority on which Parker J. wished to rely in Tan . |
| 6 | Ari can not breathe . |
| 7 | The quarrel between Aldfrith and Wilfrid can not have been without its political dimension . |
| 8 | The unconditional Soviet support to the Kabul regime is on such a scale that the US and Pakistan can not hope to match it . |
| 9 | ‘ In a controlled state like Pakistan , when people land from Dubai by a plane whose number is given and the names of persons given , it would be very difficult to say Pakistan can not find them , ’ India 's foreign minister , Dinesh Singh , said . |
| 10 | The low oil price means that LASMO can not afford to develop all the projects within our extensive portfolio but must prioritise . |
| 11 | Such powerful artefacts as the Doomstones can not have escaped the notice of the Great Enchanter , and he would certainly make every effort to get hold of them . |
| 12 | The letter continues : ’ The TEC can not address the guaranteed programmes for young and unemployed people in isolation from this economic background . |
| 13 | It is trying to assert itself politically , offering money the PLO can not match to young , educated Gazans to join the Islamist movement . |
| 14 | Of course , Miss Kenton can not hope by returning at this stage ever to retrieve those lost years , and it will be my first duty to impress this upon her when we meet . |
| 15 | The question of how it has been spent , by the first two of them at least , raises important issues of public policy , but even Holroyd can not succeed in making such matters positively en thralling . |
| 16 | The Uprising has shown beyond all doubt that King Husayn can not represent the Palestinian people . |
| 17 | President Carlos Salinas de Gortari has said on many occasions , in his campaign for a free-trade agreement , that if Mexico can not send its products to the United States , it will send its people instead . |
| 18 | Mexico 's Finance Minister flies to Washington to inform the US Government that Mexico can not meet the payments on its $80 billion foreign debt . |
| 19 | But the PNC can not get hold of Suffolk files . |
| 20 | After the recent elections , even Brussels can not govern itself and it looks as if the multilingual state of Belgium is about to collapse . |
| 21 | Aamir Sohail can not keep this spinning delivery from Ian Salisbury out of his stumps , and Pakistan slump to 68 for 6 , chasing 138 . |
| 22 | ‘ Edward can not sit there , besieging the town , with us here . |
| 23 | ‘ King Richard can not keep you here for ever , my lord . |
| 24 | King Richard can not keep you here for ever , Brackenbury had said . |
| 25 | Jorge can not take you . |
| 26 | The ordinary people of Northern Ireland can not allow that to happen . |
| 27 | Kevin Wilson was another who had a fine game ; he has developed into a player Northern Ireland can not afford to be without . |
| 28 | It might seem a matter of logic that Sicily and Scotland can not require the same performance features of tiles . |
| 29 | Answer guide : In this case Transom has incurred a cost but there is no future benefit because Transom can not sell defective seat belts . |
| 30 | Mr Curtis can not get another |