Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is high time we realised that we are lagging behind and that roads alone can not solve our problem . |
| 2 | But technological change alone can not explain the many strategies for reform which the Thatcher Government has inspired . |
| 3 | Thus , energy or enthalpy change alone can not help us to predict whether a reaction will occur or not . |
| 4 | Clayey deposits are not found below unit I ( refs 6 , 15 ) implying that climatic change alone can not account for these sediments . |
| 5 | Of course the words alone can not produce the effect . |
| 6 | The radar data alone can not tell us that these features are indeed the cusp . |
| 7 | The policy states : ‘ Police action alone can not achieve positive results , ’ and they must adopt a ‘ multi-agency ’ approach . |
| 8 | Schools alone can not make guarantees about the quality of education . |
| 9 | So , for example if somebody does reject a young man in a way that erm is n't appropriate in his eyes , he might then go around and start calling her all sorts of names and generally making other men think of her in bad way , and of course no eighteen year old woman wants young men to think badly of her , and so she puts pressure on herself not to reject advances too openly or too obviously or something like that , and the whole cycle starts again , and so and I think this is the sort of thing the college just can not have anything to do with , because that really is going too far , that 's interfering with the the one thing we could do , perhaps , is talk to the young women and make it clear that they do have the right to reject advances and that what they 've got to be concerned about whilst they 're at university is they 're academic career and making sure that that is n't affected by harassment . |
| 10 | Deliberate programmes of staff development in individual schools and community language units clearly can not solve all of the problems mentioned by the participants in the NCMTT Workshop : good will and voluntary effort will never be enough to eradicate popular conceptions of second class status as they affect community languages . |
| 11 | As the traders often can not spare the time to come to the staff restaurant , they can place their breakfast and lunch orders in advance and CCG staff serve them at their desks . |
| 12 | ‘ Here we are having February weather in the middle of sheep shearing season and the animals simply can not cope with the conditions . |
| 13 | Most desktop publishing systems have the advantage of a degree of flexibility that most printers and designers simply can not believe . |
| 14 | The review here can not claim to have gone into any great depth , but its purpose is correspondingly modest , and that is to provide some support to this generalisation . |
| 15 | The sociology of religion certainly can not tell us what we ought to believe — or even whether any particular belief is true or false — except , perhaps , in so far as the belief makes empirical claims or predictions — but , even then , we must remember , religions do deal in miracles , and they do celebrate paradox . |
| 16 | Scalar polynomial curvature singularities therefore can not occur . |
| 17 | My clerk just can not keep control of this . |
| 18 | But external assistance alone can not deliver sustainable development and st political stability . |
| 19 | Nor need your eyes miss seeing what your feet perhaps can not take you to . |
| 20 | I do not use only one type of filter , particularly undergravel , as this kind of flow-rate leads to problems with all the waste being drawn to the bottom where , inevitably , it finds its way into the nooks and crannies that a gravel cleaner just can not reach . |
| 21 | This would be fine but the natural type of memory for a modern machine , a 286 or 386 , is extended memory and this means that often a machine will have 4 or 8 MBytes of memory that a simple spreadsheet just can not make use of . |
| 22 | But sometimes parents still can not accept their daughter 's sexuality , especially if they return to live in their parents ' home . |
| 23 | Management decidedly can not rely on having its spokesmen on the spot in the shape of co-operative station staff . |
| 24 | Public service broadcasting probably can not survive in the market-place and it therefore needs financial , political , and cultural support . |
| 25 | And , in the battle for sporting hearts and minds , Irish rugby simply can not afford that unhappy situation . |
| 26 | There have not been as many jobs lying unfilled for at least three years , and companies simply can not find the people they need . ’ |
| 27 | Any standard piece of Western catering equipment simply can not produce the heat needed . |
| 28 | Also , a Third World country which depends on an export crop for foreign exchange simply can not change crops in times of recession — it takes several years and many dollars to restructure an industry and to plant new crops . |
| 29 | The cannon therefore can not fire either this turn or the next turn . |
| 30 | Essential oils , expensive patent ‘ cures ’ , anti-cellulite creams and tough massage alone can not shift cellulite — especially that which has been in the hips and thighs for many years . |