Example sentences of "can not [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ca n't , you ca n't accuse just Jean of corruption , they 've got to they 've got to accuse the development corporation of corruption as well . |
| 2 | We ca n't go yet Andrew , the lights are on red . |
| 3 | You ca n't go nowhere man . |
| 4 | Wilkinson described his team 's display as ‘ a Jekyll and Hyde performance ’ , adding : ‘ You ca n't give away goals like that . |
| 5 | We ca n't give away Sue and Richard 's dream home , but we can offer BBC Gardeners ' World Magazine readers a taste of the good life . |
| 6 | I ca n't see even Hitler causing trouble for the Swedish , he needs our iron ore too much . |
| 7 | You do n't lose the use of your PC 's printer port because it 's duplicated on the back of the tape unit , though obviously you ca n't use both printer and tape at the same time . |
| 8 | there 's more people this end , we ca n't get there dad . |
| 9 | Often when ladies come along to join my class , they say , ‘ I ca n't get below 10st ( 63.5 kg ) ’ . |
| 10 | Well he ca n't drive now mum cos he 's had a beer . |
| 11 | We which I would hope when will itemise the qualities and strengths of the child that you want to cover , like when we do personal statements or joint statements in the tenth and eleventh year that if the form teacher just ca n't write well Fred 's worked very well , he 's done extremely well in English we 'll actually start to talk about him as an individual and his strengths and weaknesses . |
| 12 | God is love , as St John tells us ( 1 John 4:8 ) , and as love , by his very nature , can not command even creatures to love him in return . |
| 13 | Although we can not ignore purely entertainment applications , our main concern will be information products and services rather than ‘ content-free ’ fun . |
| 14 | What we can not countenance though sir , is any widening o of the route that they seek to go down , to have these sites included in the greenbelt , and that 's to say to entertain the argument that the whole of Skelton ought to be washed-over . |
| 15 | Instead of being an act of service , making money and owning things can become purely selfish activities ; and it is in this sense that our Lord issues the warning that ‘ you can not serve both God and Mammon , and tells the story of the very prosperous farmer who is destroyed by his self-indulgence . |
| 16 | Clearly they can not accommodate both Taylor and Williams , but Alec Evans is though to fancy the latter as captain , having previously been impressed with him playing club rugby in Queensland . |
| 17 | Purchase of such indulgences can not guarantee citizenly salvation . |
| 18 | We can not have both x J and σ J non-basic , assuming U J > 0 , by ( 7.1 ) . |
| 19 | An unbloody sacrifice can not take away sins for we read ‘ without shedding of blood is no remission . ’ |
| 20 | Somehow , I can not see either Monte Carlo or Hamburg allowing their status to be lowered without a fight . |
| 21 | We did , of course , over the years of working closely together come to have some very frank exchanges , but the afternoon I am recalling was still early in our relationship and I can not see even Miss Kenton having been so forward . |