Example sentences of "we [adv] can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nowadays we literally can not afford to neglect the investment , the hard financial investment , stored in our built environment . |
| 2 | So , we do apologize , but hope you 'll understand er , the delegate particularly , that we just can not ensure that the report has got absolutely everything in it . |
| 3 | Are you saying that there are molecules out there in space which we just can not form ourselves in a laboratory ? |
| 4 | So I do n't think you , I should think partly we just can not give an assurance that no other complaints will be dealt with by support staff , really that we . |
| 5 | As he readily admits : ‘ We just can not score goals . |
| 6 | We just can not sit it out here all the time or we 'll all go mad . ’ |
| 7 | We just can not go on like this . |
| 8 | Mr Milne declared : ‘ Much of the black fish lands up south of the Border and is sold at prices we just can not compete with . |
| 9 | Jim said : ‘ We face eviction next spring because we just can not afford that kind of money . |
| 10 | We just can not afford any significant shortfall in our subscription income . |
| 11 | ‘ The plain fact is we are a small independent company , and we just can not afford to spend 2m ( pounds ) on new printing machines . |
| 12 | Namely that between nineteen seventy nine and nineteen eighty one , ten thousand working days were lost at G C H Q and we just can not run the risk of anything like that ever happening again . |
| 13 | Suffice it to say that after two centuries of higher and lower criticism we just can not approach the Bible in the way that former Christians did . |
| 14 | We just can not live together . |
| 15 | Of course I must add a , a word of warning here , because whereas once upon a time many people used to be able to ring the Weather Centres or a Met Office to get their own personal forecast , which was very nice , we enjoyed doing this , it has now got to the stage where so many people are trying to ring us that we just can not deal with all the enquiries personally , and we 're looking into ways and means of erm providing forecasts of this sort of nature , they 're general sort of nature , by other means , such as radio and television . |
| 16 | One of the organisers , John Tipple , of the Socialist Workers Party , said : ‘ We just can not trust what is being said . |
| 17 | Particularly where the subject is a plural personal pronoun no variation seems to be permitted ; but in our initial search for invariance ( cf. 1.1 ) , we still can not specify this rule as categorical with the same confidence as we can define a constraint on a phonological variable . |
| 18 | ‘ However , the game is not yet over and , if you 'll accept my apologies , we still can not discern friend from foe . ’ |
| 19 | Despite the definitive nature of this brochure , we still can not include the six hundred plus hotels that we work with in Italy . |
| 20 | Not only can we not recognize sounds as linguistic units unless concepts are attached to them ; we also can not entertain concepts independently of their physical manifestations , without , that is , evoking in our minds the verbal forms to which they are attached . |
| 21 | We are sympathetic but we also can not ride roughshod over the concerns of the local community . |
| 22 | So we are sympathetic towards this er provision of student accommodation , but we also can not ride roughshod over the concerns of the local community . |
| 23 | But , as we have noticed above , we often can not quantify these subsets meaningfully throughout the range of speaker-groups and styles because occurrences of the relevant variants are relatively rare . |
| 24 | Justice is not always swift , but in ways we often can not see in advance it is generally sure . |
| 25 | This is the opposite of RP ( where can is front and ca n't is back ) , so we plainly can not explain this back /a/ pattern by relating it directly to RP . |
| 26 | The liabilities of NBFls are not and so we plainly can not use that argument here . |
| 27 | So long as we have language , he argued , we simply can not conceive it . |
| 28 | Although many people do not like talk of market forces , the plain fact is that in the real world we simply can not ignore them . |
| 29 | Contractors will reluctantly say , ’ No , we simply can not do your work because we can not afford to be out of the money for that period . ’ |
| 30 | We simply can not form a clear and distinct idea of the fact that something is conducive or inimical to the actualisation of our essences without this influencing our behaviour towards or away from it . |