Example sentences of "they can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can not advertise prices for sale to the public that do not include value-added tax , and are not allowed to submit products , quoted at base model price , to magazines for review or to customers for evaluation , if they exceed the usual specifications . |
| 2 | Perhaps they have had an experience of déjà vu which they can not explain by any other means . |
| 3 | Its relationship with the molecular " vehicles " which express it is a non-reciprocal one : its presence can explain theirs , but they can not explain it . |
| 4 | These cortical consequences of social evolution provide the basis for the acquisition of some sort of superego , even if they can not ensure that it is a rational , mature and adaptive one . |
| 5 | They can not exist to society as a whole ’ . |
| 6 | They may exist in favour of individuals , and in some cases in favour of a limited class , but , with the exception of the public right of fishing in tidal water , they can not exist in favour of the public at large . |
| 7 | Evidently such individuals can be said to exist , despite the fact that they lack the independence of ordinary things — they can not exist on their own . |
| 8 | Logically , they can not exist separately : all knowledge involves some kind of mental processing and exists in a cultural context ; all cultures are conceptualized in terms of knowledge and involve abilities and skills ; all development has a content and a context . |
| 9 | They can not exist , or at least , procreate , without one another , and in some senses approach a dual-organism , like a lichen . |
| 10 | This deserves special mention because , on the assumption that various conditions which appear to be satisfied by the return maps are actually satisfied , this attractor is probably the only well understood strange attractor known in a system of " natural " three-dimensional differential equations ; we have strong reasons to suppose that there can be no stable orbits in a relatively large parameter range , as opposed to the normal " chaotic attractors where one merely can not observe them but has no arguments to suggest they can not exist ( they may be of extremely high period or have very complicated basins of attraction see { 8 } ) . |
| 11 | But the reason they can not press on to victory is transparent : the central planning dear to people like Mr Li and Mr Chen stands no chance of coping with 20m or more urban unemployed , a labour force that will grow by 95m in the next five years and rising expectations of wealth . |
| 12 | For them , crack is wrong , because the pain is generalised and life , not physical pain , is what they can not face . |
| 13 | There are many people who collude with their partner , or loved one , or friend 's denial of loss or suffering because they can not face the other person 's pain and tears . |
| 14 | They can not face being left to their own , shallow life , which has no substance ; conversely , Ferdinand gains inner strength from maintaining his stand against tyranny . |
| 15 | It seems that parthenogenesis may establish itself because of its twofold immediate advantage , but that parthenogenetic populations are ultimately eliminated , probably because they can not evolve rapidly enough to meet changing circumstances . |
| 16 | Moreover , legislation could galvanise the power of older people , countering the ageist idea that they can not represent their own interests . |
| 17 | Fine , but though countries may eat what they like , they can not exclude foods they think are inferior to their own . |
| 18 | The opening of new offices may take place as part of a general expansion of the activities of a firm to additional locations ( though usually never so far away that they can not benefit from the goodwill attaching to headquarters ) or involve streamlining administration by establishing different departments in separate offices . |
| 19 | The vigil becomes such a powerful trap that they can not break free from it . |
| 20 | They can not break through the wall she has built around her . |
| 21 | For example , they can not stand the well-off , pushy , pleased-with-themselves , Tory young . |
| 22 | So violent sometimes that they can not stand up but lie perfectly exhausted . |
| 23 | They can not stand contradiction and indeed they are often right . |
| 24 | Manufacturers in five countries , Britain , Canada the US , Japan and the Philippines , have been selling farmyard pumps , which the association says have ‘ failed miserably ’ because they can not stand up to all-day use . |
| 25 | Donkeys have no objection to donkey work , but they can not stand being taken for racehorses or tractors . |
| 26 | I remind him that there are examples of states coming together — as they have done in the Common Market — but then having to co-exist so closely that they can not stand the sight of one another and begin to fall apart . |
| 27 | That as they 've been made redundant , as they 've been victimized for trade union activity possibly , we then as a union decide that they can not stand for office ? |
| 28 | An important point concerning all modules apart from the character recogniser is that they are effectively acting as filters in this context , i.e. they can not contribute further interpretations of the data . |
| 29 | They can not wash their hands of social problems and the incidence of crime by saying , ’ Let the markets take care of it all ’ . |
| 30 | Although the money MI6 has provided has given him access to Western luxuries , they can not compensate for the fact that he will never see his motherland again . |