Example sentences of "and can not [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It is compounded by the fact that later in the game Strach also tires and can not pressurise his full-back , or cover Kelly so well .
2 Astra says her methods do not fully exclude the possibility of normal DNA replication and can not repeat her results .
3 Every British academic complains of this problem , but the Germans have it worse because they are almost 30 before they get their degrees , and can not expect an academic job until they get a doctorate and a further qualification for academic teaching , called the habilitation .
4 Where this is the case , their members will not be affected and can not expect to receive anything extra as a result of LPI .
5 She heard her father say , " Then , by the Holy Sacrament it is his promise he has broken , and can not expect my daughter to keep hers . "
6 The argument against so doing is that the institutions will wish to disseminate the proceeds of the flotation to their various funds and can not cater for contingent liabilities such as warranty claims .
7 A few apple , pear and plum varieties are cross-sterile and can not pollinate each other , while some apples and pears are biennial bearers and thus will not supply pollen each year .
8 Headings tend to be broad and can not represent complex or specific subjects accurately .
9 PR measures electoral support for indivisible political parties and can not measure support for vaguely defined factions within them .
10 The Opposition do not say where they stand , can not say where they stand and can not admit to the jobs that would be lost if their policy were carried out .
11 People expect risks they did not ask for and can not control to be much lower -by 10 or 100 times — than those which they run willingly .
12 Many of these anxieties arise because women do not understand and can not control the physical changes which they experience at this time .
13 Seals have almost spherical lenses and can not flatten them enough to see far through the air .
14 Birds range from the most unspecialized , which regularly take other foods besides fruits and can not subsist on fruit alone , to the most specialized , absolutely reliant on the fruit .
15 However , on examination we find that the criminal process does not and can not fulfil this role .
16 However , if good and this property are simply the same thing , then the judgement that what has this property is good is just a tautology , and can not serve as the kind of important value judgement it is meant to be .
17 The starting point is the contention that experience is not neutral , uninterpreted fact and can not serve as an independent umpire of what theories it is rational to accept .
18 The socialist , the feminist , or the worker who picks up a cheap print of the Memorial Sheet to Karl Liebknecht ( 1919 ) , is not prioritising the formal elements which attracted Max Lehrs as writing , ‘ It would be very regrettable if ( Kollowitz ‘ etchings ) found approval from the public merely because of their social content … = Art should not and can not serve the changing goals of parties . ’
19 The Federal President ( Bundespräsident , currently Kurt Waldheim ) is elected for a six-year term by universal suffrage and can not serve more than two terms of office .
20 Most people in Roi Et have no money to deposit and can not borrow from banks because they lack collateral .
21 But the effect of the policy , as the American Bar Association pointed out in a recent report , is that the country 's prisons are filled not only with drug-handlers but also with drug-takers , and can not cope with the numbers .
22 In some Branches it is not possible to provide the customer with a full banking service for parts of the day , as staff are under pressure and can not cope .
23 Do not be misled , however , into thinking that it works like a spreadsheet because it is only a grid for entering figures and can not perform any calculations for you .
24 The fact is we remain an island power and can not ignore the sea however close we may be to the Continent .
25 MISSING three of their better players , Chelmsford were over-run by Rochford and can not ignore the possibility of being relegated from the London Division Three North East .
26 If your income is slightly above these levels you should still apply because the figures shown are only a guide and can not reflect every personal circumstance .
27 Severe chills in a fever , they can not get warm and can not bear to uncover , which sends waves of chills through them .
28 Or you hit on what seems a marvellously telling simile and can not bear to omit it .
29 walls which are not reinforced and can not bear a stone vault .
30 But so long as no resources used in ‘ selling ’ or in producing are owned monopolistically , we are forced to conclude that this activity is essentially competitive and can not result in any kind of monopolistic control over production or any impairment of the competitive process .
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