Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But cash alone can not repair the personal or community battering that closures of this magnitude bring about . |
| 2 | It is one sign of the rise of semi-literacy that the descendants of the nineteenth-century civic worthies who took pride in the libraries they opened genuinely can not see any problem in closing them down a hundred years later , or authorising the ruthless dispersal of their stocks built up during that period . |
| 3 | Moreover , catching up can not explain the slowdown in US productivity which occurred outside the manufacturing sector and which can only partly be explained by the less intense expansion once the excess capacity of the early 1960s had been used up . |
| 4 | Wages are seen as flexible upwards but ‘ sticky ’ downwards , so that rises in can not decrease the real wage rate but falls in can increase it ( illustrated in Fig. 10–5 as ) . |
| 5 | But given the copious evidence that chimps simply can not get their lips and tongues around enough sounds , their cross-modal associations pose no threat to Geschwind 's theory . |
| 6 | Labour simply can not fudge its views on PR . |
| 7 | In Chapter 4 I stressed the importance of preparation before planting — what you do afterwards can not put right what you fail to do before a plant is in the ground and growing away . |
| 8 | If I understand it correctly , the inset for Skelton is made not because of any question of Policy E Ten , but to recognize the existence of a substantial built-up area , which in the County Council 's opinion er does not can not perform a greenbelt function . |
| 9 | What can not be justified quantitatively can not command large resources . |
| 10 | It is no accident that certain adjectives which can appear as postnominal , but not prenominal , attributives do also appear in predicative position , while , on the other hand , certain adjectives which only occur prenominally can not stand as predicatives : ( 33 ) the robber was asleep not noticing the robber asleep , they missed their revenge the asleep robber ( 34 ) their proposals are sheer lunacy their lunacy is sheer lunacy sheer of this sort is unsurprising |
| 11 | A character who is held fast can not move or fight , and is treated as prone . |