Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How far any homosexuality in the physical sense went on I can not say , mainly because I was rather naive about such matters , but rumours and counter-rumours abounded . |
| 2 | there 's a thousand pound he said , you know , if you can make it right sort of over the next month but he said basically I can not do anything until erm the end of February , he said you come in the end of February he said and then we can start to sort it out , he said I ca n't do anything for you until then . |
| 3 | On the question of the period between now and the general election , obviously I can not predict the exact course that events will follow . |
| 4 | Personally I can not see what all the fuss has been about . ’ |
| 5 | So I can not tell you now , I ca n't remember where the quarry was whether it was North Wales Quarry , whether it was Slate Quarry down in in in |
| 6 | So I can not claim to be an expert , but I have been considering spending my own money on America this year . |
| 7 | At the end of the franchise period he will have nothing to sell , so I can not see how people could go away and borrow the working capital with which to run a business . |
| 8 | There is provision made for a rudder assembly on the Seayak but my version came without one so I can not vouch for its effectiveness in steering . |
| 9 | So I can not accept that . |
| 10 | Obviously you can not wage war without taxing . |
| 11 | Obviously you can not expect to understand everything at once . |
| 12 | Obviously you can not know in advance which type of mat will be used at a particular tournament , so you should do your final training on any type of mat , just to get used to the feel , and then try to use any free time you may have on the actual competition areas to get a little practice in beforehand . |
| 13 | So you can not shuffle off your responsibilities as my officer in that way , Bragg . ’ |
| 14 | So you can not assume anything . |
| 15 | So you can not take it for granted . |
| 16 | Although he was not the very first , he has come to be regarded as the pioneer , bush-whacking anthropologist , the originator of the doctrine that until you have lived cheek by jowl with an exotic tribe and spoken their language fluently you can not claim full professional status . |
| 17 | Naturally one can not leave business premises unattended . |
| 18 | Apparently one can not have it both ways . |
| 19 | I father that he does not sell very well in this country ( nor does Brahms for that matter ! ) , yet apparently we can not get enough of the ‘ Four Seasons ’ , and second-rate opera arias ! |
| 20 | Obviously one can not re-use plants for later measurement by the other two systems and so the graphs obtained have fewer points than the earlier ones . |
| 21 | And erm , on the er , item twenty five , might there be an opportunity , with the agreement that we 're going to deal with in item D are n't we , er , with the social serv with the er , health authority , are under suspicion that a lot of the er , personal care we offer through that system ought really to be offered by district nurses , erm , and I wonder whether that 's erm , can we , perhaps we can not establish that . |
| 22 | Obviously we can not choose our parents but we can do a great deal to improve the shape , form and texture of these problem areas . |
| 23 | Obviously we can not know the outcome of a new project , so let's consider how we might have proceeded 31 years ago . |
| 24 | So we can not characterize the difference between inside and outside in terms of freedom vs. determinism . |
| 25 | Anywhere the road is wide enough , they are congregating so we can not anticipate where they will be . |
| 26 | A final point that has to be borne in mind is that in order to make generalizations based on the type of quantitative analysis pioneered by Labov , a large number of tokens must be analysed ( usually thousands ) ; however , it happens that some variables that are quite salient in the community occur relatively rarely , and so we can not make reliable quantitative statements about these covering the range of speaker variables , even though they may be involved in linguistic change and may be important for historical projections on to earlier English . |
| 27 | These trends might of course represent the beginning of a change in progress , but if this is so , it is not yet established as a pattern that we can show by our methods as regular , and so we can not demonstrate that it is a change . |
| 28 | So we can not work out the length of the whole period simply by adding up all the figures given . |
| 29 | So we can not become complacent or leave START to do the job alone , because it is not enough by itself . |
| 30 | But precisely because of that , sex and sexual representations are important to us , and so we can not allow a simple-minded anti-pornography consensus to stifle us . |