Example sentences of "who can not [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Psychiatrist Dr Gerald Silverman runs kleptomania therapy groups ( for people who can not control their desires to steal ) , and claims most of his patients shoplift due to emotional worries or personal problems . |
| 2 | The list is endless , but for starters : liver diseases caused by alcohol ; drug-induced illnesses ; overdoses ; aids developed through promiscuous sexual behaviour ; heart disease and circulation problems in severely obese people who can not control their desire for fattening foods ; osteoporosis and other arthritic conditions caused by ‘ couch potatoes ’ who refuse to take exercise . |
| 3 | Mothers or fathers on their own who can not earn their own living , or who decide ( as they are fully entitled to ) that they would prefer to care for their children instead , must get paid for the important work they do . |
| 4 | They have shown by their tasteless and tactless menace tonight that they are still not prepared to take on board the problems of people who can not pay their poll tax because they do not have sufficient funds . |
| 5 | We could do something tonight by having the Minister announce that magistrates will stop putting in prison people who can not pay their poll tax . |
| 6 | When he expressed anxiety about people who can not pay their mortgages , he sounded like the Walrus and the Carpenter — weeping tears as he ate the oysters . |
| 7 | Barclays has run into a sequence of big borrowers who can not service their debts on time and can not sell their assets to repay the debts . |
| 8 | Informally this must mean that P " is essentially the same as " Q , in that , to an observer who can not detect their internal structure , the behaviours of P and Q are indistinguishable . |
| 9 | Some social service departments provide a laundry service for people with incontinence , or who can not manage their laundry for other reasons . |
| 10 | Advocacy projects are beginning to emerge , with young-old people often acting as advocates for people with illnesses like dementia or stroke who can not articulate their needs . |
| 11 | Of course , if prices generally do rise , the value of money falls with all sorts of unpleasant consequences for the classes who can not raise their money incomes as fast as others , and , in the case of Britain particularly , for the national balance of payments . |
| 12 | However , there is a danger that parents who can not raise their children appropriately , or find a job , or provide sufficient income to support their family , or whose children engage in delinquent activities , are seen as having some form of personal failing or character weakness . |
| 13 | Lenders will not make money out of consumers who can not repay their loans . |
| 14 | It is useless trying to co-operate with people who can not keep their word or have any intention of keeping it . |
| 15 | If his medicine is not visibly working soon , he will , like many of the unfortunate people who can not afford their mortgage payment , have to be evicted from his comfortable home . ’ |
| 16 | It is important , therefore , that feminists challenge the current definitions of housing need , and campaign against the public sector becoming a residual category for those who can not afford their own housing . |
| 17 | Thus the DH comments in Caring for People about the relationship of services to those who can not afford their full cost is particularly relevant : ‘ In practice many consumers of personal social services can not afford the full cost of the service and ability to pay does not , and should not in any way influence decisions on the service to be provided . ’ |