Example sentences of "[Wh pn] can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The soul pupa opens its eyes very widely , the pupils dilated with terror , and the horror of its own death is reflected in the retinas — scenes of terrible demise reveal themselves to the character , who can not avoid the gaze . |
| 2 | BS is like a man who knows all about swimming , even to the point of being able to train the Olympic team , but who can not swim himself , and V is the man with the normal talent for swimming . |
| 3 | TWO Liverpool mothers who can not swim a stroke saved a lifeguard from drowning in a North Wales holiday camp pool . |
| 4 | The patient who can not sit up may start by washing in bed , with the nurse guiding him , so that he does not risk over-balancing and falling . |
| 5 | The child also needs time to go to the lavatory ; a hurried and pressurizing parent or an overactive child who can not sit still can start a pattern of difficult bowel habits . |
| 6 | Since 1964 , when I first worked ( and lived ) in the region , what I have been seeing in babies and young children is starvation : a host of children of one and two years who can not sit up unaided , who do not or can not speak , whose skin is stretched so tightly over the chest and stomach that every curve of the breastbone and ribs stands out . |
| 7 | So the net is cast very wide , as to who can not sit on the |
| 8 | The strength of functional assessment is to point out that an elder who can not dress will require the same care , irrespective of whether this condition results from a stroke , severe arthritis , an obsessional neurosis , or a low self-esteem . |
| 9 | Psychiatrist Dr Gerald Silverman runs kleptomania therapy groups ( for people who can not control their desires to steal ) , and claims most of his patients shoplift due to emotional worries or personal problems . |
| 10 | The list is endless , but for starters : liver diseases caused by alcohol ; drug-induced illnesses ; overdoses ; aids developed through promiscuous sexual behaviour ; heart disease and circulation problems in severely obese people who can not control their desire for fattening foods ; osteoporosis and other arthritic conditions caused by ‘ couch potatoes ’ who refuse to take exercise . |
| 11 | My present feeling is that any one who can not feel the beauty of their melody had better confine his criticism to prose and leave the discussion of verse to those who understand something about it … . |
| 12 | It is thus that he declares himself for Dunning 's sapphics , flashing out at ‘ any one who can not feel the beauty of their melody ’ ( my italics ) . |
| 13 | It is no use sending to jail those who can not feel . ’ |
| 14 | With this in mind members of the schemes operated by the University who can not achieve 40 years ’ pensionable/reckonable service should consider the possibility of making Additional Voluntary Contributions to improve their retirement benefits . |
| 15 | There can be few of us who can not make a daisy chain with our eyes closed — and who could forget the daisy-spangled downs and pastures where we loved to picnic ? |
| 16 | There is another group , the blind or partially sighted , who can not make satisfactory use of the light/dark cycle as a time-cue . |
| 17 | We have seen since the early 1980s appeals to the family , attacks on the ‘ moaning Minnies ’ and ‘ whingers ’ who can not make it , and counteractions to permissiveness . |
| 18 | The benefit of this form of publicity is that it could reach those in the home ( women , unemployed , disabled ) and especially those who can not make use of the coverage in newspapers ( i.e. the blind ) . |
| 19 | A bishop who can not make up his mind which side he is supporting is inconvenient . |
| 20 | The man who can not make eight or ten bales at least has almost no object in life and nothing to live on . ’ |
| 21 | Others are workaholics who can not stop working . |
| 22 | This is sufficiently clear from the rules relating to infant shareholders , who are liable for calls on the shares unless they repudiate the allotment during infancy or on attaining majority , and who can not recover any money which they have paid unless the shares have been completely valueless . |
| 23 | For example , being kept awake by a sufferer who can not sleep having to be continually watchful of someone who may do dangerous things , and having to cope with continual questioning or aggression may become unbearable . |
| 24 | Not only do they hold good against the trustee himself , and against his creditors during his life-time and his representatives after his death , but also against all to whom he may have transferred the property , and who can not show that they acquired it for value and without notice of the trust . |
| 25 | I sing it practically every night of my life , because , like bits of Hamlet , it 's so obvious that the trick is to go against the lyric and stir in your listener the real sense of a man who can not love . |
| 26 | Age Concern wishes to see safeguards against abuse , exploitation and neglect of duty for those who can take decisions plus procedures for those who can not do so . |
| 27 | Then there are some very talented conductors who can not do anything with a really top orchestra . |
| 28 | It is all these inefficient teachers who can not impart facts that are causing the trouble . |
| 29 | First , they must take great care in their choice of partners to avoid deals with enthusiastic amateurs who can not deliver success where success is due . |
| 30 | Those who can not measure up to text-book success may feel a sense of guilt or failure . |