Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The actual work of looking after those who temporarily or permanently can not do so for themselves . |
| 2 | If the girl is under 13 , the maximum penalty is life imprisonment , since a girl of 12 or under can not have sufficient knowledge of the consequences of sex , or sufficient maturity of judgment to take decisions on those consequences . |
| 3 | ‘ This would then reduce the waiting list for those parents that really can not afford it . |
| 4 | I DID not see the London Marathon this weekend , and so can not complain about it too loudly , but my heartfelt sympathy goes out to those who found themselves confronted by 25,000 runners , all anxious to show how goodhearted they were and what fun they were having . |
| 5 | The judge in making an award of damages will know that a payment into court has been made , but will not know in what sum and so can not ensure that the damages awarded are high enough to beat the payment into court , if minded to make an award similar to that which the defendant has offered . |
| 6 | A mortar has no wheels or other means to move it once it is on the battlefield , and so can not move other than turn on the spot to face its target . |
| 7 | On the one hand , the Keynesian version of the model assumes a constant price level and so can not analyse the problem of inflation . |
| 8 | Likewise , a plaintiff whose contract entitles him to his wages during incapacity has suffered no loss of wages and so can not recover damages for lost wages . |
| 9 | Cantril died in 1969 and so can not comment on this phenomenon . |
| 10 | Clearly , if the knowledge that classes A and B were once distinct is no longer present in speakers ' minds , they can not pick out the class B items and so can not separate them from the merged class and then re-merge them with a completely different class . |
| 11 | You should be aware at the outset that , whilst MAS can provide a comprehensive deal management and advisory service , it will operate in the capacity of your professional advisers and so can not operate independently from yourselves at any stage in the deal process . |
| 12 | Is it that institutions have to prepare people to work in traditional as well as up-to-date professional settings , and so can not afford to be too ‘ progressive ’ ? |
| 13 | The Sensorites are pacifists and so can not kill . |
| 14 | The landlord will not have made a taxable supply to the tenant and so can not issue a tax invoice , preventing the tenant from claiming input relief . |
| 15 | Put simply , John was almost convinced that most cancers are viruses ; the immune system knows that the body has been invaded and sends out its army of antibodies who fail to recognise the enemy and so can not destroy it . |
| 16 | Even if he 's your husband he can not go through the pain you went through and so can not know what it is like . |
| 17 | When one colony is markedly smaller than the other and so can not field an imposing team , it is raided , the queen is killed , and workers , pupae and larvae are carried off to be set to work in the victors ' nest . |
| 18 | Each parent passes on a set of chromosomes to the hybrid offspring : but the two sets do not match , and so can not undergo the ‘ reduction division ’ necessary to produce another generation of gametes . |
| 19 | The direction only applies to evidence which a party " intends to place reliance on " and so can not apply to new evidence which only comes to light after the time for serving statements has passed . |
| 20 | Therefore I can have no reason to believe that my experience is a reliable guide , and hence have no reason for any belief about events beyond my experience and so can not have knowledge of them . |
| 21 | When we raise questions about truth and reality , we carry with us presumptions derived from the special sciences , and thus can not achieve transcendental reflection . |
| 22 | A critic walking for the first time into a gallery may describe a colour in a picture as blue ; it will have been the scrupulous task of a conservator to have established that the particular colour in question was Prussian blue , and thus can not date before the eighteenth century . |
| 23 | Some argue that the law in England vis-à-vis terminal patients does not meet the first of these criteria , and thus can not satisfy , ex hypothesi , the other two . |
| 24 | Polymeric macromolecules have variable dimensions and thus can not pack closely together in a regular arrangement . |
| 25 | His deficit arises in a subsequent stage of attending to these figures , at which he neglects the left of figures wherever they appear , and thus can not judge explicitly whether they are symmetrical about the vertical . |
| 26 | However , another potential source of inequality , ‘ cream skimming ’ , which arises with HMOs is removed since , unlike HMOs , DHAs are compulsorily responsible for all residents and thus can not select only the lower risks . |
| 27 | The context of this calm acquiescence is a rise in what I will call semi-literacy , which relies on the visual image and hardly at all on the printed word except as a medium of advertising , and genuinely can not see what the problem is . |
| 28 | They fall back on reserves of muscle protein to balance the high rate of heat loss — and still can not find sufficient food . |
| 29 | Apparently she had had heavy thighs all her life and still can not get used to her new shape . |
| 30 | Wittgenstein argued that the solipsist can not develop rules in the way required , and hence can not construct a language ; and we conclude from this that a certain programme in epistemology is not going to be available . |