Example sentences of "he can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he is trespassing , or seeking to detain and question a person when he has no authority to do so , or challenging another to a fight , his conduct will be outside the scope of his duty , and any assault on him can not come within the terms of section 51(1) . |
| 2 | The small business man with two men and a dog working for him can not afford the call-bar facilities that are in the House . |
| 3 | Taxis are obviously easier to use , but if the patient can not speak properly , he may need to use clearly written cards to explain to the taxi driver why he can not speak , and where he wants to go . |
| 4 | It can sometimes be difficult to determine whether the patient is ill-tempered and perhaps foulmouthed towards you because of the immediate effects of his illness and the frustration he feels , especially if he can not speak normally , or whether it is part of a personality change which is going to last indefinitely . |
| 5 | The aim , of course , is to delegate decision making to a trusted and close friend or relative who the patient feels best knows him and will speak for him when he can not speak for himself . |
| 6 | ‘ He is much brighter than me yet he can not speak . ’ |
| 7 | He can not speak in or out of the House on subjects outside his department . |
| 8 | He can not speak again . |
| 9 | He can not speak . |
| 10 | We have already heard Allen , and he can not speak twice . |
| 11 | He can not speak although he does scream and cry . |
| 12 | He can not speak although he does scream and cry . |
| 13 | Mr Aznar has repeatedly taken refuge in claims that the Socialists are hiding the true figures and that he can not make promises until he has seen the books . |
| 14 | He can not make the dog or the duck swim across . |
| 15 | He accepts that he can not make a categorical statement about innocence or guilt , but he feels that his constituent has not been given a fair hearing . |
| 16 | He can not make such a commitment . |
| 17 | Then Labour 's education spokeswoman , Hilary Armstrong said Mr Fallon 's assurances were worthless because he can not make commitments for the next Government . |
| 18 | Try as he might it is clear that he can not make the economic figures add up , creative accounting or not , in a way which will make the parliamentary Tory Party arithmetic secure . |
| 19 | The French sneer that , because Mr Van den Broek gets on badly with his prime minister , Ruud Lubbers , he can not bear to see the summiteers running the show . |
| 20 | Joe 's behaviour can also be s\described as mildly odd : his fear of returning to prison shows in his encouragement of the local children to play policeman games , telling them he will put bad boys into his private jail , and a sense of contrition over the faulty aircraft parts means he can not bear having anything the house that ought to be thrown away . |
| 21 | But the hag keeps up her terrifying noise , her writhing and screaming , to pin down the youth 's attention , stop him from pursuing Ariel , and she succeeds , he can not bear the sound of her hissing and shrieking another moment . |
| 22 | The philosophy is devastatingly simple , Charlton recognising that he can not hope to improve players technically in the short time available to him before matches . |
| 23 | Narasimha Rao , is a former foreign minister whose ill-health means he can not hope to become a permanent head of the party . |
| 24 | He can not hope to match the advances which the likes of Waite , McCarthy and Terry Anderson could command . |
| 25 | If he is vague about the meaning of Christ 's death and resurrection , he can not hope to introduce others to Jesus as their Saviour . |
| 26 | Mr Reagan says he can not recollect many of the key events surrounding the scandal , which he says was as much news to him as everyone else . |
| 27 | At the worst the plaintiff who starts in the wrong division will be removed to another division , and may have to pay the expenses , if any , incurred by his mistake ; but he can not fail altogether for his mistake . |
| 28 | Unless a player is totally without imagination , then he can not fail to be aware of what has gone before as he makes his pilgrimage round Augusta . |
| 29 | If the traveller looks out of his car or train window or takes a walk along his local brook and bears in mind what a river should look like , he can not fail to notice , in many places , mile upon mile of treeless river bank , often devoid of even a decent margin of bulrush . |
| 30 | I should not wish the young King to know about it or see , for he would not find it to his liking ; but I fear , so white is the stone , that he can not fail to see it from Mathefelon . |