Example sentences of "[pron] can not [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not feel that I am truly mistress here , while your mother is in residence . |
| 2 | Yet I can not feel that Adam was to blame . |
| 3 | I can not feel that we had been negligent , had we been dealing with another man . |
| 4 | All I can now remember of questions and answers is writing a three-hour essay on ‘ Security ’ , and I can not think that it was very good . |
| 5 | Such is 67 : The detail in much of this poem remains enigmatic , but here as in 68 I can not think that the references to false ornament and cosmetics ( including wigs made of hair taken from the scalp of corpses ) are favourable to the Friend , who seems to be encouraging corruption by his own example or presence in this milieu . |
| 6 | I can not think that this is right . |
| 7 | I can not think that the words ‘ all costs ’ mean anything other than that . |
| 8 | The gravamen of the charge is the demand without reasonable or probable cause : and I can not think that the mere fact that the threat is to do something a person is entitled to do either causes the threat not to be a ‘ menace ’ within the Act or in itself provides a reasonable or probable cause for the demand … |
| 9 | If so , I can not think that your Lordships would do right , if you were now to reverse , as erroneous , a judgment of the Court of Appeal , proceeding upon a doctrine which has been accepted as part of the law of England for 280 years … . |
| 10 | I can not think that Taggy would have been obliged to turn away her admirers otherwise . ’ |
| 11 | I should suppose that it is deliberately not so expressed , for I can not think that so simple an expedient as the transfer of assets to a company resident in the United Kingdom and the immediate removal of that company outside it would not occur to the draftsman . |
| 12 | He named a sum , adding ‘ I can not hope that you will agree to continue as a mere reader here . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Candidate ( thinking he has at last come upon a Village Hampden ) : ‘ I can not conceive that the Election can in any way affect your rights here . ’ |
| 14 | I can not conceive that the pathologist will trouble to look there for a puncture mark and indeed , prior to that eventuality , it does n't seem likely that the emergency team of paramedics they 'll send out from Brighton General will be well enough acquainted with the action of this drug to hit upon the right antidote in time to prevent her from expiring . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I can not forget that I was crowned head of the United Kingdom ’ , said the Queen in her Silver Jubilee speech in May 1977 . |
| 16 | I can not I can not do I can not differentiate that I 'll tell you what I could do I 'd have no problem at all if you gave me something Y equals U squared no problem |
| 17 | And I can not suppose that experience itself has given me reason to believe that the unobserved will resemble the observed , since the appeal to experience begs the question asked ; it argues not to but from the crucial belief that our experience is a reliable guide , or that the unobserved will resemble the observed . |
| 18 | As for myself , I can not pretend that the time since we last corresponded has been equally fruitful or pleasant . |
| 19 | I can not pretend that Mr James 's book attains the same degree of enlightenment . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes … but I can not pretend that it is n't a family disaster . |
| 21 | Crucially , however , the point is this : I can not pretend that the philosophical Enlightenment has never happened , and that we are not living on the ‘ post ’ side of a scientific revolution . |
| 22 | ‘ I can not pretend that I shall ever like him , ’ said the lawyer . |
| 23 | At this distance in time , I can not pretend that I had my doubts about its merits : what I did dwell on was a certain psychological subtlety in retailing the author 's love-life , though in terms which today would he considered ludicrously niminy-piminy . |
| 24 | When pressed by journalists for an assurance that Koko is Nigeria 's only dump , the irritated Minister for Works and Housing snaps , ‘ I can not confirm that Koko is the only dump . |
| 25 | Much as I regard them as a social nuisance on a par with the Orange Walk and invented by the devil to prevent churchgoers getting to church on time , I can not claim that marathons have ( yet ) been proved to kill enough people to justify banning them . |
| 26 | In this book , I describe and explain these activities and although I can not claim that this is a comprehensive guide to parties — such a task would be virtually impossible ! — I do know that , if you follow my advice , your children and their friends will have a really enjoyable time ! |
| 27 | I was only three-and-a-half when I saw the Zeppelin , although I can not claim that it kindled any positive interest in flying . |
| 28 | I can not agree that women are the inferior of men . |
| 29 | Although Koor 's policy of siphoning money from its successful subsidiaries to loss-makers is certainly generous , I can not agree that it is ‘ hairbrained ’ . |
| 30 | Mr Clarke said later that no decision had been taken to do away with the pay formula , but he added : ‘ However I can not agree that firefighters should be an exception to the Government 's policy that in the current pay round the rises of all public sector employees should not exceed 1.5 per cent and that there could not be any catching up settlement thereafter . ’ |