Example sentences of "it can [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It 's , really th as I say , the design is all down to the size but it it 's because of the snow fall that could go in , that can li th obviously because it 's sloped like it can nae lie on it but
2 But officials insist that Poland 's national telephone company , PTTP , will be protected only for a few more years and will then be left to go bankrupt if it can not compete against privately owned network operators .
3 Obviously , however much informal work experience young people may have acquired , it can not compete with that of older workers .
4 Therefore , in order to maintain control it can not specify the production function and so on explicitly as a constraint .
5 It can not side-step this challenge by claiming to be neutral and value-free because of its appeal to the technology of literacy .
6 This will also be the case where the shares are issued by a subsidiary incorporated in a jurisdiction where it can not avoid paying dividends or amounts in respect of redemption even if there are insufficient distributable profits , in which case funds would have to be provided by other group companies .
7 For all its frequent invocation as the ‘ concrete ’ , history must by definition entail a problematic represencing of an absence ; Derrida therefore argues that , even in its ‘ materialist ’ conceptualization , it can not avoid a certain metaphysics .
8 It can not avoid the informing presence of existing empirical studies and existing theoretical and quasi-theoretical positions .
9 It can not undertake ‘ the expression of free solidarity ’ , since , today , ‘ only individuals [ and individualistic treatment of musical material ] are capable of consciously representing the aims of collectivity ’ ( Adorno 1978a : 298–9 ) .
10 If equipment is not shared , it can not spread HIV .
11 A semblance of opposition helps Kenya 's case with the foreign donors without whom it can not prosper .
12 ‘ Also , if you allow the dog to sit on your settee , then replace that settee with a new one you do n't want the dog to sit on , you must not expect it to suddenly understand why it can not sit there . ’
13 No dose of a highly potentized remedy can be too small that it can not be stronger than the natural disease , that it can not at least partially overcome it and that it can not start the process of cure .
14 that it can not start again ; as when you leave
15 It can not offer the territorial guarantees or military equipment that provide ‘ hard security ’ .
16 It can not offer voters a policy programme which will be implemented when it comes to power .
17 It can not offer any greater insight into the object , the circumstances of its manufacture , or the cultural framework from which it derived .
18 Manpower , which operates a system of layoffs for staff to whom it can not offer an assignment , estimated that between five and ten per cent of its workforce might be laid off at any one time .
19 It is characteristic of faith that it can not remain in two minds ; it can not leave things in the air .
20 Britain should either unite its allies or talk — it can not leave its hostages undefended by standing alone . ’
21 However , if the dividend is to be effectively delivered , it can not leave us vulnerable to the many other surprises hiding around the corner .
22 As I have already made clear before , every such particular has certain " essential " properties which it can not shed without ceasing to be what it is ; but although its having such properties is necessary to its identity , it is not quite sufficient to explain its existential uniqueness .
23 It can not refer to individual cases .
24 The meaning is uncertain , but it can not refer to an offering to a demon , as some suggest , for this was strictly forbidden ( see , e.g. , 17:7 ) .
25 The earth throws off the heat it can not accommodate .
26 ‘ If a creditor has actual or constructive notice , at the time of the execution of the charge or guarantee in question , that the guarantee or charge on which it relies has been procured by the exercise of undue influence , it can not enforce the transaction ; an equity is raised against the creditor irrespective of any question of agency …
27 ‘ If a creditor has actual or constructive notice , at the time of the execution of the charge or guarantee in question , that the guarantee or charge on which it relies has been procured by the exercise of undue influence , it can not enforce the transaction ; an equity is raised against the creditor irrespective of any question of agency .
28 A rod which is too stiff is useless when it can not react to a sudden , savage pull .
29 Strathclyde has told ScotRail that it can not invest more in local rail services , including the largest suburban network outside London , unless the Government gives assurances that it will continue to have a major say after privatisation .
30 But it can not stop there .
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