Example sentences of "what [pron] can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All you want to know is what I can not tell you : whether her recent illness might in some way explain her disappearance . |
| 2 | I do not mind being told what I can not do , so long as I can accede to an adequate reason why . |
| 3 | What I can not do is go around and do a full enquiry to find out what the position is , an enquiry indeed might be difficult , because you may have found these people but actually pinning down er to who does it and what actually happens may be more difficult . |
| 4 | What I can not do er is advise you on how I would score one sector against another in respect of that because again , er we have n't looked at that in sufficient detail . |
| 5 | what I can not recreate |
| 6 | What I can not comply with , is the regular imposition of a psychometric system of evaluation , which has already decided who will fail and in what proportions , because it is based on a deficit model of learners , and a culturally and politically determined view of intelligence and ability . |
| 7 | ‘ That is what I can not understand , ’ the general had turned in upon himself again , hardly aware of the presence of his guests any more . |
| 8 | Mrs Lynch added : ‘ What I can not understand is why the bag was not checked at the mortuary or the police station ? ’ |
| 9 | But not with what she can not bear , she spawns |
| 10 | You can work on a presumption , a prebonderance of probabilities or whatever , but I mean what you can not do is take it that it 's absolutely fact that that is going to happen . |
| 11 | What you can not do is leave it overnight . |
| 12 | To see what you can not hear , particularly consonant sounds , improves speech reception wonderfully . |
| 13 | You ca n't hate what you can not touch , I ca n't even feel what most people think of as despair . |
| 14 | ‘ John , you 're not trying ! ’ and you look at your feet in the mirror , ugly , unable to do the things which you want them to do , or see your body collapse in the middle when you know that it should be firm and rigid — and see them all , even the children , doing something , following what you can not follow . |
| 15 | What you can not turn to with such pride is BR 's printed timetable , which changed format several times during the eighties and ended as a poor thing , well below continental standards . |
| 16 | but of what we can not tell , for they come to represent the depths of feeling into which we can not peer . |
| 17 | What we can not tell is whether the trends to increasing divorce and remarriage will be a force for increasing the solitary living or for extending the range of family contacts available to the divorced . |
| 18 | Nevertheless do not tell me of it , even to confirm me ; for it is what we can not analyse or arrange , any more than the rich simplicity of childhood . |
| 19 | What we can not do is ask questions about sub-areas of the cerebral cortex , for example the striate cortex of primates , and expect to get the same answers from studies on different groups . |
| 20 | What we can not do is to rely on their happening . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ But at least what we can not sell is going to help other people overseas . ’ |
| 23 | There was a mood , if we cloud all this up in realms of high theology then we shall all agree on what we can not understand . |
| 24 | ( 1987 : 29 ) I would only add that the value of what we can not understand is only recognized by reference to what we can . |
| 25 | What we can not know is how deeply they felt the break-up of their communal life and the removal of the prestige attached to the greater foundations . |
| 26 | But what we can not accept is that those who have been prepared to co-operate thus far with the P.C.A. , now knowing as a result of this court 's widely publicised recent judgment of the grave suspicions presently surrounding the police officers concerned , would truly prefer to remain anonymous and watch these officers prosper in their libel action , than that their statements should be disclosed to C.N.L. with a view to their being proofed and , if necessary , called as witnesses in defence . |
| 27 | But there is no kind of crisis going on , except perhaps in the environmental or ecological area and in our own minds when we try to secure for ourselves what we can not have : namely a zero risk . |
| 28 | If it is so for choices of means it is so for choices of ends ; and it is one of the greatest temptations to irrationality that nothing compels us to acknowledge in the realm of ends what we can not afford to deny in the realm of means . |
| 29 | ‘ What we can not afford to do is to sacrifice our core investment programme in Chemicals which is so important to the long-term future . ’ |
| 30 | What one can not demand but from oneself . |