Example sentences of "it can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Obviously , however much informal work experience young people may have acquired , it can not compete with that of older workers . |
| 3 | Therefore , in order to maintain control it can not specify the production function and so on explicitly as a constraint . |
| 4 | It can not side-step this challenge by claiming to be neutral and value-free because of its appeal to the technology of literacy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It can not avoid the informing presence of existing empirical studies and existing theoretical and quasi-theoretical positions . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | If equipment is not shared , it can not spread HIV . |
| 10 | A semblance of opposition helps Kenya 's case with the foreign donors without whom it can not prosper . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | that it can not start again ; as when you leave |
| 14 | It can not offer the territorial guarantees or military equipment that provide ‘ hard security ’ . |
| 15 | It can not offer voters a policy programme which will be implemented when it comes to power . |
| 16 | It can not offer any greater insight into the object , the circumstances of its manufacture , or the cultural framework from which it derived . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It is characteristic of faith that it can not remain in two minds ; it can not leave things in the air . |
| 19 | Britain should either unite its allies or talk — it can not leave its hostages undefended by standing alone . ’ |
| 20 | However , if the dividend is to be effectively delivered , it can not leave us vulnerable to the many other surprises hiding around the corner . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It can not refer to individual cases . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | The earth throws off the heat it can not accommodate . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 … |
| 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 | A rod which is too stiff is useless when it can not react to a sudden , savage pull . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But it can not stop there . |
| 30 | for the animal in its mud burrow , valuable time will be lost if it can not prepare itself for foraging until after the tide has left the shore . |