Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But technological change alone can not explain the many strategies for reform which the Thatcher Government has inspired . |
| 2 | Thus , energy or enthalpy change alone can not help us to predict whether a reaction will occur or not . |
| 3 | Clayey deposits are not found below unit I ( refs 6 , 15 ) implying that climatic change alone can not account for these sediments . |
| 4 | The policy states : ‘ Police action alone can not achieve positive results , ’ and they must adopt a ‘ multi-agency ’ approach . |
| 5 | So , for example if somebody does reject a young man in a way that erm is n't appropriate in his eyes , he might then go around and start calling her all sorts of names and generally making other men think of her in bad way , and of course no eighteen year old woman wants young men to think badly of her , and so she puts pressure on herself not to reject advances too openly or too obviously or something like that , and the whole cycle starts again , and so and I think this is the sort of thing the college just can not have anything to do with , because that really is going too far , that 's interfering with the the one thing we could do , perhaps , is talk to the young women and make it clear that they do have the right to reject advances and that what they 've got to be concerned about whilst they 're at university is they 're academic career and making sure that that is n't affected by harassment . |
| 6 | The review here can not claim to have gone into any great depth , but its purpose is correspondingly modest , and that is to provide some support to this generalisation . |
| 7 | The sociology of religion certainly can not tell us what we ought to believe — or even whether any particular belief is true or false — except , perhaps , in so far as the belief makes empirical claims or predictions — but , even then , we must remember , religions do deal in miracles , and they do celebrate paradox . |
| 8 | My clerk just can not keep control of this . |
| 9 | But external assistance alone can not deliver sustainable development and st political stability . |
| 10 | I do not use only one type of filter , particularly undergravel , as this kind of flow-rate leads to problems with all the waste being drawn to the bottom where , inevitably , it finds its way into the nooks and crannies that a gravel cleaner just can not reach . |
| 11 | This would be fine but the natural type of memory for a modern machine , a 286 or 386 , is extended memory and this means that often a machine will have 4 or 8 MBytes of memory that a simple spreadsheet just can not make use of . |
| 12 | Management decidedly can not rely on having its spokesmen on the spot in the shape of co-operative station staff . |
| 13 | Public service broadcasting probably can not survive in the market-place and it therefore needs financial , political , and cultural support . |
| 14 | And , in the battle for sporting hearts and minds , Irish rugby simply can not afford that unhappy situation . |
| 15 | Any standard piece of Western catering equipment simply can not produce the heat needed . |
| 16 | Also , a Third World country which depends on an export crop for foreign exchange simply can not change crops in times of recession — it takes several years and many dollars to restructure an industry and to plant new crops . |
| 17 | Essential oils , expensive patent ‘ cures ’ , anti-cellulite creams and tough massage alone can not shift cellulite — especially that which has been in the hips and thighs for many years . |
| 18 | However , the horse in captivity usually can not help itself in anxiety provoking situations : it is dependent upon people for its reduction in anxiety ; it relies upon people for its needs . |
| 19 | Even if it did , personal generosity simply can not cure basic social injustices . |
| 20 | In any case , it does not detract from my central theme that ‘ traditional ’ chemistry is brought alive by anecdotes and can be great fun , a feat that modern chemistry simply can not match except perhaps in the case of hydroxyethane ( ethanol ) , after a few glasses of which , who cares anyway ? |
| 21 | Any sizable successful herbivorous group surely can not have been relying on one such geographically limited group of seed-plants to the exclusion of all others . |
| 22 | A business simply can not function this way . |
| 23 | The image of a body simply can not do justice , we are saying , to the reality of — and our complex emotional reaction to — overpowering physical realities like the sea or the night-sky ( however much we may be told that the stars are a twinkle in God 's eye ! ) . |
| 24 | This chest also can not have the sides broken open , since it has a full iron inlay — the only way to force it is to crowbar the lid open . |
| 25 | The demands of social realism require a resolution of problems within the framework of the text — a requirement which must remain unfulfilled since the format of social realism paradoxically can not offer solutions , as the text must ignore politics external to the closed internal world created . |
| 26 | The head alone can not overcome resistances and antagonisms which lie outside school . |
| 27 | In the UK , market researcher Andy Ryman says : ‘ The name of any new development obviously can not clash with any other competitor developments in the area . |
| 28 | Terence Davies has apparently emerged from the representation of his social origins smelling of Art , and it is this very concept which mainstream criticism just can not get enough of , for at its best ( its most effective ) it denies the social world at the very moment that it represents it . |
| 29 | Whatever you may have read or heard about their relationship still can not prepare you for her own account . |
| 30 | The ruling means an employee working fewer than eight hours a week still can not qualify for redundancy pay or unfair dismissal , regardless of the number of weeks worked . |