Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Mummy loves me but can not look after me any more . |
| 2 | My mummy loves me but can not look after me any more . |
| 3 | My mummy loves me but can not look after me any more . |
| 4 | They were all related to the general principle , said to have been established with the introduction of legal aid in 1950 , that ‘ … legal services should be available to those who need them but can not afford to pay for them . ’ |
| 5 | Vincent is hiding something that can not stand the light . ’ |
| 6 | It is a longing for something that can not happen . |
| 7 | The P P G seven has a very clear theme about supporting rural diversification , it is positively worded P P G. I think the restrictive nature of the existing policy and the district 's support for that is something that can not run forward in the structure plan and be consistent with national policy . |
| 8 | If that contact is broken , the words and events become a sort of empty recitation , an alienated recounting of something that can not proclaim its real significance . |
| 9 | As in a hung jury — one that can not reach a verdict . |
| 10 | In the way of household appliances Joan Hubbard has a single tub washing machine ( one that can not rinse or dry the clothes ) , a vacuum cleaner and a fridge . |
| 11 | The wealth of other trades was on a much smaller scale , one that can not have been untypical of most provincial communities . |
| 12 | In addition to the mycoplasma , Taylor-Robinson thinks he may have found a new anaerobic bacterium ( one that can not live in the presence of oxygen ) which also seems to be associated with NGU . |
| 13 | Some people are unable to make choices because they feel they must have everything and can not accept the loss that is inherent in exercising choice . |
| 14 | It is no earthly use appointing a particular officer if the childen do not know how to complain to him or her and can not do so . |
| 15 | It hardly suits disabled children who have to learn about life as they experience it and can not recover something that they never possessed . |
| 16 | Thus the double layer moves more slowly than the average and so yet more growth layers pile up behind it and can not pass . |
| 17 | Recognise in time , perhaps only from the despair of repeated failure , that you yourself did not cause the disease , can not control it and can not cure it and that in time you may need to surrender the fight and hand over the care of the sufferer 's addictive disease to his or her own appropriate Anonymous Fellowship . |
| 18 | Enjoying , we spontaneously welcome awareness ; bored and listless , we can not without effort summon it up ; disliking , we withdraw from it ; suffering , we recoil from it but can not escape it . |
| 19 | That method is exactly the one best suited to LBOs or recapitalised firms that have overpaid for themselves and can not meet their debts . |
| 20 | Grasshoppers , scorpions , lizards , young birds in their nests , anything that can not get out of the way is attacked . |