Example sentences of "[conj] we can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ Many of the costs of running the dockyard are fixed , and consequently a point is reached where we can not make further savings without placing its feasibility in jeopardy . |
| 2 | However , where we can not identify a triple alliance , a society may still be dominated by a transnational capitalist class whose practices are genuinely transnational whether or not all three parties are represented . |
| 3 | Are the people too blind to see that the Dublin government is telling us where we can and where we can not parade , where we can and where we can not fly the Ulster flag and that a foreign flag can fly on our soil ? |
| 4 | Sorry , but this is one competition where we can not accept entries by post . |
| 5 | Are the people too blind to see that the Dublin government is telling us where we can and where we can not parade , where we can and where we can not fly the Ulster flag and that a foreign flag can fly on our soil ? |
| 6 | Although we can not go into the technicalities of Ohmann 's method , it is worth mentioning that the apparatus he used was that of an earlier version of Transformational Grammar , one which subsequently underwent profound modifications . " |
| 7 | Although we can not expect them to become typographers or graphic designers , we do believe that even in the short time available during our course we can give them what might be called an aesthetic awareness that will enable them to make reasonable decisions in their future work . |
| 8 | Experiments have shown that these virtual particles are indeed present , although we can not detect them directly . |
| 9 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that , although we can not protect the entire railway track throughout the country , a useful step may be to see whether cameras can be used at strategic points , not least at the busiest rail junction in the world ? |
| 10 | We continue to accept the long term UN target for aid of 0.7 per cent of GNP , although we can not set a timetable for its achievement . |
| 11 | Although we can not control some of the key factors which determine our success , neither can we sit by and hope for a turn of fortune . |
| 12 | Although we can not ignore purely entertainment applications , our main concern will be information products and services rather than ‘ content-free ’ fun . |
| 13 | It is expected that adoption of each of these programmes will be delayed and this in turn will affect dates for calls for proposals , publicity events , etc , although we can not tell at the moment how long the delay will last and the consequences it may have . |
| 14 | Although we can not guarantee that your requirement will be met , we will certainly pass on your requests to the Hotel concerned , and make every effort to satisfy your requirements . |
| 15 | He hopes to show that , although we can not know quite what the former say we can , nevertheless we can still know more than the latter allow . |
| 16 | Hence , although we can not say that every material ought to have the same strength , we can say that , very approximately , all materials ought to have the same elastic breaking strain . |
| 17 | If we take such a " bat-detector " out to a clearing where a bat is feeding , we shall hear when each bat pulse is emitted , although we can not hear what the pulses really " sound " like . |
| 18 | It does not show that we can not start , but only that our initial moves will need to be reassessed later . |
| 19 | As Locke says , ‘ in some of our ideas there are certain relations , habitudes and connections , so visibly included in the nature of the ideas themselves , that we can not conceive them separable from them , by any power whatsoever ’ . |
| 20 | The use of cool boxes was so rare that we can not comment on their potential effectiveness , and it is difficult to obtain small cool boxes of known effectiveness in Britain . |
| 21 | as if to ensure , however , that we can not interpret this work as a declaration of Gironella , s ideas about race and colour in Mexico , there exists another version , almost identical but for the fact that this is a white queen . |
| 22 | Perhaps there are clues in the archetype of the Great Mother ; we must bear in mind , though , that we can not go back to some primitive image of the priestess , but must give it life and meaning in today 's terms . |
| 23 | I appreciate that one must approach the matter with considerable caution , and that we can not go at it in a bull-at-a-gate fashion . |
| 24 | It is surely obvious that we can not go on as we are as we pollute the world and as poverty increases , along with violence , vandalism and random destruction , more of it at Gateshead last night apparently . |
| 25 | When we are young , the thought of death , whether our own or someone else 's , is so appalling that we can not face it . |
| 26 | That we can not cope with another child , that we are not ready for parenthood , that we can not face raising a child without a partner , that we can not afford a child , that our method of birth control failed , that we are the victims of rape , that we can not bear the anguish of carrying a child to term and giving it up for adoption , that we can not accept the responsibility of caring for a handicapped child — these are the reasons why we seek abortion in the vast majority of cases . |
| 27 | Since θ for one tableau is equal to θ for the next , when increasing 0 , this ensures that we can not repeat a tableau . |
| 28 | In 58 ‘ your slave ’ , ‘ your vassal ’ is ready to swallow any insult or neglect , the poem concluding : The second-person pronouns come so thick and fast here that we can not miss the bitter criticism of the Friend setting himself up as a law unto himself , becoming so entirely obsessed with his own pleasures that he betrays their relationship . |
| 29 | That we can not make those leaps of vision so because we are bound to a cultural view which denies their possibility . ’ |
| 30 | Time and financial constraints , as well as a recent rapid increase in student numbers ( 90 in 1991 , 125 in 1992 ) , mean that we can not make this as wide-ranging as we would like . |