Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dearest Mother and Dad I am sorry I can not write letter to-night will write to-morrow night . |
| 2 | I say I 'm sorry I can not understand a word you 're saying . |
| 3 | I may possibly be able to greatly increase that distance but of that I can not speak with certainty . ’ |
| 4 | Old Kaspar replies : ’ Why that I can not tell , ' said he , But' t was a famous victory . ' ’ |
| 5 | Whether there is anything in that I can not say , but one of the golden rules of banking , ‘ once bitten , twice shy ’ , seems to be waived for Czechoslovaks . |
| 6 | Exactly how he achieved this I can not explain except to say that he had a kind of eloquence that made you think he was speaking to you personally and the gift of a born story-teller . |
| 7 | On this I can not resolve the conflict between the various affidavits . |
| 8 | Though this I can not guarantee . |
| 9 | In a book such as this I can not say more than that about how the modern fieldworking anthropologist conducts his research . |
| 10 | This I can not accept : it seems impossible that such a central part , mathematics , of such a political institution , education , should really be politically neutral . |
| 11 | She is pleasant enough but how reliable I can not say and I am not depending on her for the birth . |
| 12 | How women who do n't have professions manage to keep themselves sane I can not imagine ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I am afraid I can not comment at all , ’ said Sir Donald Hall , deputy chairman of GEC-Marconi . |
| 14 | And more than that I 'm afraid I can not tell people . |
| 15 | I am afraid I can not bear just yet to go back to Baldersdale . |
| 16 | ‘ I am afraid I can not say any more . |
| 17 | Remember that if you return home at the end of the session with the work you planned to do uncompleted you can not expect to return the next day or the next week to find the situation exactly as you left it . |
| 18 | Without this we can not engage in any worthwhile legal work or provide access to items . |
| 19 | Even with a simple system like this we can not draw direct conclusions about the functions of a component from knowing what is lost when we destroy it . |
| 20 | The doctor said , ‘ I 'm afraid we can not hope now . ’ |
| 21 | I 'm afraid we can not have any of this . |
| 22 | Do n't forget , I have lived here three months , and although I know the family to be close-fisted there can not have been much more than that . ’ |
| 23 | This they can not do , mainly because they take out of context the parental characteristics they are studying and then average out all fluctuations over time and situation . |
| 24 | It may be that learners have internalized aspects of the system which for one reason or another they can not access on particular occasions , that circumstances of different kinds prevent them from acting on this knowledge . |
| 25 | Laryngitis with hoarseness worse ( < ) in the evening ; larynx so painful they can not talk ; very sensitive to touch and cold air . |
| 26 | To fall , in , towards the nucleus it would have to lose all its energy , and this it can not do as it is continually absorbing energy from the ether which balances with the amount it naturally radiates . |
| 27 | As no one group is self-sufficient it can not meet the needs of its members . |
| 28 | Well I hope this article clearly shows how to one fishkeeper a species can seem so easy he/she can not stop them breeding , while for another it can seem to be the most difficult fish in the world . |
| 29 | In one Douglas Fairbanks tells a woman to follow him and when faced with her persistent refusal , arguing as she does that she can not abandon her home , he tethers his horses to the latter and carts the whole house off in a burst of white-toothed laughter . |
| 30 | The sceptic says that there is a difference between the two hypotheses but that you can not tell it since it is evidence-transcendent . |