Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the patient can not walk at all , you should have a special wheelchair for outdoor use ; while an indoor wheelchair has large back wheels and relatively thin tyres , the outdoor version may have four small wheels with thick fat tyres , which should be kept pumped up to the correct pressure . |
| 2 | A situation exists where citizens have to alter their behaviour to ensure their safety ; children can not walk to school , it is too dangerous to ride a bicycle , and the elderly or disabled can not cross the road quickly enough . |
| 3 | But then no foreigner is ever going to tell me I can not walk on my country 's hills . |
| 4 | You can not walk on a cloud ! " |
| 5 | You can not walk past them if you 're going in that way . |
| 6 | But they can not walk from reserve to reserve without going through cities . |
| 7 | If they heard a knock at the door or if they heard shouting and bawling in the street , but there 's nothing they can do what we 're asking for here is and I 'm asking for support is a phone to the people who can not afford one whereas if they hear something they can phone the police , or they can phone the support unit because are two people staying together in this day and age where they can not walk in the streets they 're attacked even in broad daylight going to get their pensions never mind at night-time . |
| 8 | A short length of each vas deferens should be removed to ensure that sperm can not pass between the severed ends . |
| 9 | Platey particles such as mica flakes may readily pass diagonally through meshes which more nearly spherical grains of identical intermediate diameters can not pass as a result of the length of their short diameters . |
| 10 | ‘ They can not pass off the blame as if the order to close these homes came directly from Whitehall , ’ said Mr Bergg , a member of Great Aycliffe Town Council . |
| 11 | This merely enables the local authority to rely on the private law concepts relating to the passing of the burden of covenants attached to land , i.e. the burden of a covenant can not pass to successors in title at common law , Austerberry v Oldham Corporation , and only restrictive covenants , as opposed to positive covenants may pass under the equitable rules , first proposed in Tulk v Moxhay . |
| 12 | Two vehicles can not pass without mounting the pavement . ’ |
| 13 | The other limitation is that property can not pass in unascertained goods , see section 16 ( above ) . |
| 14 | It is for nearly 12 miles so narrow , that a mouse can not pass by any carriage … |
| 15 | It seems more likely that , in the absence of active hepatitis B virus replication and intracellular nucleopcapid protein ( HBcAg ) , sureplus pre-S peptides can not migrate to the plasma membrane as part of new assembling particles and thus will accumulate in the cytoplasm . |
| 16 | If you have a dispute with the child 's other parent or carer , which you can not resolve between you , you can ask the Court to make a decision . |
| 17 | ‘ And I , ’ he retorted gravely , ‘ can not sit beside you , and not touch you . |
| 18 | Does he realise that he can not sit on the fence on this one , and what does he intend to do about it ? |
| 19 | So the net is cast very wide , as to who can not sit on the |
| 20 | The parliament can not sit for more than six months of the year ( Article 28 ) ; the agenda is entirely determined by the government , its legislative duties are restricted to a specific range of policy areas ( Article 34 ) and its ability to hold ministers to account and to scrutinise and amend legislation is pitifully small . |
| 21 | But no one has said that you can not sit at the table and talk to your family , even if you choose not to eat . |
| 22 | But the teacher can not sit in splendid and comfortable isolation in staff room or on classroom dais while his pupils are busily engrossed in resource-based exercises ; he is involved at every point in the process , from the preliminary planning and assembly of available materials , the creation of additional resources and linking items , the initial presentation and motivation sessions , the follow-up work as the pupils proceed , and the eventual summing up and validation at the end . |
| 23 | You can not sit in there ! ’ |
| 24 | To say that the patient can not demand to be stabbed because he can not suspend the operation of the criminal law and absolve the other of liability begs the question , depending as it does on a determination of what the criminal law is . |
| 25 | but we can not demand to be desired , for desire operates in complex , often unconscious ways . |
| 26 | The ideal of beauty and normality can not perish in a healthy society ; and for this reason you ought to let art go its own way ad be confident that it will not go astray … |
| 27 | We can not compete on the basis of low educational standards or poor working conditions . |
| 28 | But Coun David Lyonette ( Lab ) said the reason the company went elsewhere was because Government legislation meant Darlington can not compete on equal terms with other parts of Britain . |
| 29 | The company can not compete on price in the volume markets because of outdated equipment and small purchasing power . |
| 30 | Mandale Harrier Shaun Purcell , runner-up in the Cleveland Schools Championships , has been told he can not compete at Bristol next month because he missed the annual School InterCounties with a flu virus . |