Example sentences of "they [adv] can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Booksellers are in the vanguard and many of them simply can not get enough books to meet demand . |
| 2 | There is no doubt Operation Overdrive has reduced the scale and frequency of displays in Oxford , but a hard core of youngsters persist and the Police say they alone can not solve the problem . |
| 3 | Black workers in this dispute have learned that because of their lack of numbers they alone can not defeat their employers . |
| 4 | I think those are perhaps the hardest cases , where the parents are not able to cope because they just can not cope , they are subnormal , and you ca n't in any way say that they are to blame , they 're just totally inadequate people . |
| 5 | No matter what you do they just can not seem to learn . |
| 6 | They just can not believe it , they are waving , they are clapping , they are teary . ’ |
| 7 | They just can not come to terms with the death of the Lancashire coalfield . |
| 8 | Racism poisons a lot of children 's minds — they grow up in an environment with all these images around them , in comics , newspapers , TV , films , plus everything they hear from the family or friends — they just can not help taking it in . |
| 9 | The experiments that were set the ‘ preconceptual ’ children would offer no problems to the children at this stage , but they still can not engage in abstract thinking . |
| 10 | But they STILL can not say that radiation is to blame . |
| 11 | Not only are they incapable of regrowing the stings , but they also can not live without them . |
| 12 | Other believing people will say that they really can not answer in that way because it does not seem to fit with other messages in the New Testament of people being held to account ‘ in the latter days ’ . |
| 13 | Mrs Banham and her husband Andy , a roof tiler , considered going private , but that would cost more than £1,250 , and since their other son , one-year-old Ross , needs the same operation they really can not afford it . |
| 14 | Thus , the demand patterns for products like coal , steel and heavy goods vehicles decline rapidly in a recession , ( and may be subject to a level of demand during boom conditions that they simply can not meet ) . |
| 15 | Davies makes the important point that , superior as the unified digital environments for multimedia may be , right now they simply can not deliver television quality video in a form you can easily buy . |
| 16 | Often , they simply can not make the ultimate consumer 's choice , which is to vote with their cash and their feet and go to someone else for the service . |
| 17 | M M My Lords , i it is important that whatever is taught to a child between the ages of five and eleven that the child is able to benefit from it educationally if the child is , is overloaded as it were by being presented erm a curriculum that they simply can not manage , then that 's going to create confusion , but it 's also important to say that one of the erm er objectives of this whole exercise is to underpin all education , both morally and spiritually and I believe we 're doing a great deal to get that right . |
| 18 | if they 're saying there are no restrictions , cos they can not , they simply can not give there good clearance if there was something which is something of a restriction of competition , they must give exemption , they have no jurisdiction to do anything else , if they look at a clause and say |
| 19 | Some people can take or leave cigarettes just as they can take Or leave an alcoholic drink — Others find that however hard they try to stop smoking and however much they may be aware of the damaging consequences of continuing to do so , they simply can not stop but find themselves compelled to continue . |
| 20 | Electors are always prepared to criticise the Government in answer to pollsters ' questions , but when the same individuals arrive at the polling booth they simply can not bring themselves to vote Labour into power . |
| 21 | ‘ When money is tight they simply can not afford to take a gamble on making a mistake and getting the wrong product . |
| 22 | Meta says its problems have been compounded by the rise of IBM 's DRDA , which is seeing a tidy flow of SAG members defect to its ranks , including Oracle and Informix , who say they simply can not afford not to pick up DRDA because of IBM 's huge installation base . |
| 23 | They simply can not afford to sit back when , each year , some 300 youngsters are straining at the leash to get into their midst via the Qualifying Schools . |
| 24 | Members of Oxfordshire 's Health Authority say they simply can not afford to maintain the beds which are mainly for elderly patients . |
| 25 | There are several such ‘ phantom ’ modular courses around , which in their presentation to applicants and to enrolled students of a unified title ( ‘ Critical studies ' , ‘ Combined studies ’ , etc. ) imply promises ( of internal transfer , for example ) which they then can not deliver . |
| 26 | Just as workers in the mass production system they too have at their command machines endowed with amazing powers ( such as computers ) , but they too can not alter their environment significantly . |
| 27 | They therefore can not know the relative efficiency of different forms of work organisation , and these may in fact not have very much influence on levels of efficiency . |
| 28 | However , it would be wrong for the Government to hype the Bill too much , and to raise expectations which they certainly can not meet . |
| 29 | They certainly can not afford many more marital failures . |