Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 | Of course the words alone can not produce the effect . |
| 3 | Schools alone can not make guarantees about the quality of education . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Here we are having February weather in the middle of sheep shearing season and the animals simply can not cope with the conditions . |
| 7 | Most desktop publishing systems have the advantage of a degree of flexibility that most printers and designers simply can not believe . |
| 8 | Scalar polynomial curvature singularities therefore can not occur . |
| 9 | Nor need your eyes miss seeing what your feet perhaps can not take you to . |
| 10 | But sometimes parents still can not accept their daughter 's sexuality , especially if they return to live in their parents ' home . |
| 11 | There have not been as many jobs lying unfilled for at least three years , and companies simply can not find the people they need . ’ |
| 12 | The truth is that acting in is isolation workers simply can not recognize their rights against the superior powers of employers and of capital . |
| 13 | One important factor , he suspects , is that the market in the South-east is so depressed that southern buyers simply can not sell their own homes in order to move . |
| 14 | My officers just can not deal with these late proofs in days . |
| 15 | Firth and his colleagues argue that the main reason for this gender difference relationships through which they can gain support for their domestic and child care responsibilities , whereas men 's lives are more dominated by work and careers in which siblings usually can not help . |
| 16 | Many horse owners today can not draw upon years of experience and therefore rely heavily on advice from others . |
| 17 | The problem for companies like ICI is that while the transitional arrangements last , the power suppliers frequently can not bid for their custom because the suppliers are limited to a 15% slice of the REC 's business , rising to 25% in 1994 . |
| 18 | When a child asks a question about something dropping from a height — does it get faster and it falls for longer and longer ? — that probably is a question that most teachers who are not trained in the physical sciences just can not answer . |
| 19 | When a child asks a question about something dropping from a height — does it get faster and it falls for longer and longer ? — that probably is a question that most teachers who are not trained in the physical sciences just can not answer . |
| 20 | ‘ Teachers alone can not tackle the problems of society including the standards of literacy , ’ he said . |
| 21 | ‘ Teachers alone can not tackle the problems of society including the standards of literacy , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Professionals alone can not tackle this difficult and distressing subject . |
| 23 | When they reacted the drug with a self complementary two ’ stranded , six-base DNA chain , they found that the hydrogen bonding which holds the two strands together can not compete with the bonding of the platinum complex to adjacent guanine groups ( see Figure ) . |
| 24 | More importantly , some commentators suggest that the central issue is that most locals still can not afford owner-occupied housing ( Docklands Forum , 1987 ) . |
| 25 | ALMOST a quarter of seven-year-olds still can not read , education tests showed yesterday — a year after the nation was shocked by similar figures . |
| 26 | Zoos really can not provide this without giving them enormous , pseudo-natural enclosures . |
| 27 | Because teachers often can not answer the question of why they teach as they do and because they refer to statements such as that they just know what to do or have a feeling or sense about what to do , it has been suggested that what guides teachers in making sense of their work and what commits them to action is a mixture of " personal knowledge , tacit knowledge , routine knowledge … when conscious thought is not permitted the time to percolate and inform practice " ( Simons and Elliott 1989 ) . |
| 28 | A second reason is that many smaller farms simply can not afford to pay higher wages because of the low price elasticity for farm products ( Bellerby 1956 ; Metcalf 1969 ) . |
| 29 | The very freedom from mass accountability which allows it to do so also makes it difficult for leaders to know what society is thinking : without mechanisms for making needs known and understood , Polish and Soviet leaders simply can not know what the consequences of a rise in food prices or of other policy shifts will be . |
| 30 | In Kennex 's NF2 , vibrations simply can not sustain themselves and are instantly muted |