Example sentences of "it [adv] can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It just can not work every time . |
| 2 | The officials in charge of it still can not find out exactly how much some of the firms they would like to sell are worth — or indeed , says one , how many firms the state actually owns . |
| 3 | An opening example : If the price is advertised as being reduced and yet the house has never been on the market before , then it clearly can not have been reduced . |
| 4 | Although a dolphin 's echolocation mechanism is remarkably sensitive , it probably can not detect the thin strands of nylon which make up the mesh of oceanic drift-nets . |
| 5 | The frog relies on its fly detectors so much that it probably can not see a motionless insect , and will starve rather than eat one . |
| 6 | If a school is going to prepare a pupil for the ‘ opportunities and experiences of adult life ’ as it is required to do by section 1 of the Education Reform Act 1988 , it surely can not ignore his/her sex education . |
| 7 | In a professional environment , however , it simply can not hold its own . |
| 8 | It simply can not accommodate the traffic flows which would be generated . |
| 9 | Even some five years into the technology there are still areas in which it simply can not compete with the more traditional methods of print production and publishing , the most often quoted being that of output quality . |
| 10 | It simply can not grasp that we are all unique but equal . |
| 11 | The firm says it simply can not find the cash to meet its wage bill . |
| 12 | The firm says it simply can not find the cash to meet its wage bill . |
| 13 | If you can not accommodate them , stop talking about or expecting cross-selling — it simply can not happen . |
| 14 | Never mind that in the whole country there is only one functioning synagogue , with a congregation so small and old that it sometimes can not muster a minyan . |
| 15 | Where A demands money from B in retum for not disclosing B 's wrongdoing , A will usually be guilty of blackmail contrary to section 21 of the Theft Act 1968 and , if ‘ the offer ’ constitutes a crime , it dearly can not lead to a contract ; but what if B , without any demand , express or implied by A , offers A money not to disclose B's wrongdoing , and A accepts ? |
| 16 | However true this may be for the economic development of the United States — and even there such contentious hypotheticals are highly dubious — it certainly can not hold good for European expansion and supremacy in the later nineteenth century . |
| 17 | Our support can only be effective to the extent that these universals obtain ; it certainly can not substitute for them . |