Example sentences of "and we can not " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we can not help but contrast the generous appreciation of Dryden by Eliot , who might have been expected to be temperamentally less in tune with him . |
| 2 | He went on : ‘ They are a fifth column , and we can not permit that . |
| 3 | ‘ We have no idea what wonder drug Boots or Wellcome might suddenly produce during the year , and we can not stop and should not stop doctors prescribing all the drugs that their particular patients ’ need . ’ |
| 4 | Or perhaps I should say , ‘ Another of the Black Sumatras has done it ’ — for our three sooty chickens of this exotic breed are indistinguishable from one another , and we can not be sure which of them has excelled itself . |
| 5 | We need to be certain that the revelation stems from God ; and we can not be as certain of this as we are of our reason-based knowledge of the particular truth in question . |
| 6 | The spiritual care of the bereaved demands a book all on its own and we can not do it justice here since we have been more concerned with the human experiences that people undergo . |
| 7 | We need to analyse the components of the business and we can not any longer assume that they will all naturally stick together . ’ |
| 8 | If we do not actually receive the money within this period , our computer will automatically cancel your reservation and we can not be held responsible if that holiday is subsequently not available . |
| 9 | As a PLC we would have the greater freedom and flexibility vitally needed to match the increasing pace of change and to provide new or different services — and we can not afford to be too slow or too late . |
| 10 | That is , we have chosen two parishes in our particular town — and we can not be sure how typical the parishes or the town are of the rest of the country . |
| 11 | Our experiments with Zeta are only the first milestone along what may be a longish road , and we can not see the end of the road . |
| 12 | ‘ But we have 300 representatives and we can not look at them all simultaneously . ’ |
| 13 | And we can not say that one way of perceiving things is more real than another . |
| 14 | One line of his broadcast — ‘ Now it is very cold and we can not stay in our house ’ — hints at a crisis that nearly closed Dovercourt and did result in the evacuation of Pakefield , the overspill camp near Lowestoft . |
| 15 | Mink are a growing problem and we can not quite anticipate the effect they will have on the rabbit population . |
| 16 | The company has informed your two banks , where you have substantial overdrafts , I understand , that your employment with us has ceased , and we can not be regarded as guarantors . |
| 17 | We can not however guarantee it and we can not accept legal responsibility for it . |
| 18 | We can not however guarantee it and we can not accept legal responsibility for it . |
| 19 | This is still a relatively small aspect of our operations as yet , but the sector is one of the major growth areas and we can not afford to neglect it . |
| 20 | If a fight is inevitable and we can not escape , it is irrelevant what he or she intends to do to us , or whether he or she looks capable of doing it . |
| 21 | When the other person is an unknown commodity and we can not predict how they will react , the greater is our requirement for the armour of indirectness . |
| 22 | As we can not prove what has caused these specific problem behaviours and we can not alter the marriage ( or , probably , arrange for the family to be re-housed ) it is necessary to stop thinking about causes altogether . |
| 23 | Now we have lost one and want to replace it but the nursery do not grow it any more , and we can not find one that does . ’ |
| 24 | And we can not explain more complex needs by appealing to a concept of a universal individual such as homo oeconomicus . |
| 25 | If we are constituted as subjects by the totalities we inhabit , then our beliefs about the divide between science and ideology ( Althusser 's included ) will be determined too , and we can not expect to arrive at an impartial , objective view of it . |
| 26 | These must be obtained personally and we can not accept responsibility for them . |
| 27 | However , these are only projections of current trends and we can not be certain that current levels of morbidity will be reproduced by future generations of elderly . |
| 28 | The Soviet Union , so the story goes , is simply a different type of state , and we can not expect it to live peacefully or comfortably with its main adversary . |
| 29 | We are a group with a specific condition and specific demands and we can not wait for socialism and structural changes to solve the problems tomorrow , which today are the cause of our limitations … |
| 30 | There is still a big task ahead and we can not be sure how well it can be accomplished . |