Example sentences of "can [adv] [vb infin] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ca n't isolate stress from the general management context . ’ |
| 2 | She ca n't eat cheese if you 're a vegan . |
| 3 | You ca n't eat ink . |
| 4 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 5 | Ca n't eat popcorn then |
| 6 | It ca n't draw power from the serial port , however . |
| 7 | Xircom does n't do any kind of battery pack and the adaptors ca n't draw power from the port itself — so you 're stuffed . |
| 8 | ‘ No , girl , the doctor can do nothing , it 's my lungs , they are worn out , ca n't draw breath no more . |
| 9 | ‘ I ca n't cook curry , ’ Mrs Rae whispered behind her . |
| 10 | ‘ It ca n't change colour all by itself ! |
| 11 | It ca n't change gear or anything — ‘ |
| 12 | he ca n't change mouth . |
| 13 | UKCMG ATTENDEES NERVOUS OF UNIX , BUT CA N'T IGNORE IT |
| 14 | WHETHER you are a punter or just love horses you ca n't ignore point-to-point racing and down Ballymena way they turned out in force for last weekend 's Mid-Antrim Hunt meeting at Galgorm . |
| 15 | ‘ I am sorry , but I ca n't sanction holiday money . ’ |
| 16 | And she thought , quite calmly : this is n't good enough for me , I shall get further if I 'm pulled , I ca n't waste time in going first . |
| 17 | Anywhere , sir , I said , and ‘ I 'm afraid we ca n't serve alcohol before departure . ’ |
| 18 | To which the father had snapped , ‘ If you ca n't talk sense then shut up . ’ |
| 19 | I ca n't carry equipment for a youth club on my bicycle , so Paul used to pick me up in his car . ’ |
| 20 | You are the pleasures which we draw him on to — ( He escapes a fractional giggle but recovers immediately ) and by that I do n't mean your usual filth ; you ca n't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires . |
| 21 | He just ca n't manage money , full stop . |
| 22 | And if by any chance you ca n't manage dinner tonight perhaps we can at least have a drink together and fix some other time . ’ |
| 23 | I do n't think there 's any need to talk down to people , but you ca n't assume specialist knowledge . ’ |
| 24 | But of course we 've got to be a bit careful , because the Americans are going , sort of the other way now , that people ca n't wear perfume and deodorant , that , that smell and things like that , can they , because it 's now seen as being equally as difficult as people who smoke . |
| 25 | You ca n't verify software until you 've got hardware that 's capable of operating simultaneously with the software . |
| 26 | We ca n't measure transport use in cities . ’ |
| 27 | Young and elderly people ca n't tolerate alcohol as well as other adults . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , each pattern ca n't be more than 16 steps long , a fact which leads to some limitations on time signatures and record resolutions ( for instance , you ca n't record triplet 16ths in a 4/4 bar ) , although there is a ‘ swing ’ function which allows you to program a rather rigid swing feel on 16ths . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , each pattern ca n't be more than 16 steps long , a fact which leads to some limitations on time signatures and record resolutions ( for instance , you ca n't record triplet 16ths in a 4/4 bar ) , although there is a ‘ swing ’ function which allows you to program a rather rigid swing feel on 16ths . |
| 30 | Pity they ca n't record video on this it would be quite amusing . |