Example sentences of "can not [vb infin] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The radio can not demand that we listen to it : even if we leave it switched on , this does not mean we are listening . |
| 2 | If he can not deduce that one or other party was to blame he can not send them both away empty-handed but must find that both contributed ( as happened in Baker v Market Harborough Industrial Co-operative Society , Wallace v Richards ( Leicester ) Ltd [ 1953 ] 1 WLR 1472 . |
| 3 | Given that planning can not dictate that people live near to where they work , I 'm not sure I 've yet grasped why it is that the need to Greater York need to be met near to York , the these needs to rise from a complex pattern of people moving in and people moving out , individual decisions as to where people live in relation to where they work , what 's the magic of having the new settlement near to York ? |
| 4 | But that can not mean that the process of change has ended . |
| 5 | All I can now remember of questions and answers is writing a three-hour essay on ‘ Security ’ , and I can not think that it was very good . |
| 6 | Such is 67 : The detail in much of this poem remains enigmatic , but here as in 68 I can not think that the references to false ornament and cosmetics ( including wigs made of hair taken from the scalp of corpses ) are favourable to the Friend , who seems to be encouraging corruption by his own example or presence in this milieu . |
| 7 | I can not think that this is right . |
| 8 | I can not think that the words ‘ all costs ’ mean anything other than that . |
| 9 | The gravamen of the charge is the demand without reasonable or probable cause : and I can not think that the mere fact that the threat is to do something a person is entitled to do either causes the threat not to be a ‘ menace ’ within the Act or in itself provides a reasonable or probable cause for the demand … |
| 10 | If so , I can not think that your Lordships would do right , if you were now to reverse , as erroneous , a judgment of the Court of Appeal , proceeding upon a doctrine which has been accepted as part of the law of England for 280 years … . |
| 11 | I can not think that Taggy would have been obliged to turn away her admirers otherwise . ’ |
| 12 | I should suppose that it is deliberately not so expressed , for I can not think that so simple an expedient as the transfer of assets to a company resident in the United Kingdom and the immediate removal of that company outside it would not occur to the draftsman . |
| 13 | From the fact that a mental process does not appear in introspection one can not infer that it does not go on at non-conscious levels of the mind . |
| 14 | C might ignore the agreement , take coercive action and promote a conflict between itself and A and B. C can not be compelled to accept the terms of the treaty between A and B ; if C acts contrary to the treaty , A and B can not make that the basis of a claim against C. Equally , if the treaty between A and B was in C's interest , C could not enforce that interest through legal proceedings unless it was in fact more than an interest , and amounted to a legally protected right . |
| 15 | ‘ I can not forget that I was crowned head of the United Kingdom ’ , said the Queen in her Silver Jubilee speech in May 1977 . |
| 16 | But we can not forget that in fabliau terms the wife of the Shipman 's Tale can be credited as a successful trickster ; in so far as the Shipman 's Tale does develop an antifeminist perspective in the ways suggested above , it enhances the antifeminist possibilities of a genre that is characteristically only playfully antifeminist . |
| 17 | ‘ Candidate ( thinking he has at last come upon a Village Hampden ) : ‘ I can not conceive that the Election can in any way affect your rights here . ’ |
| 18 | I can not conceive that the pathologist will trouble to look there for a puncture mark and indeed , prior to that eventuality , it does n't seem likely that the emergency team of paramedics they 'll send out from Brighton General will be well enough acquainted with the action of this drug to hit upon the right antidote in time to prevent her from expiring . ’ |
| 19 | We can not suppose that one action is good and another not good unless we can pick out a further relevant difference between them . |
| 20 | And I can not suppose that experience itself has given me reason to believe that the unobserved will resemble the observed , since the appeal to experience begs the question asked ; it argues not to but from the crucial belief that our experience is a reliable guide , or that the unobserved will resemble the observed . |
| 21 | This is important because , in the early days of life when replicators first arose , we can not suppose that there were enzymes around to help them to replicate . |
| 22 | And as Hotspur turned to face him , in mild but sympathetic surprise : ‘ He can not suppose that allying himself to the duchess of Brittany will either placate or frighten the French . |
| 23 | As for myself , I can not pretend that the time since we last corresponded has been equally fruitful or pleasant . |
| 24 | I can not pretend that Mr James 's book attains the same degree of enlightenment . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes … but I can not pretend that it is n't a family disaster . |
| 26 | Crucially , however , the point is this : I can not pretend that the philosophical Enlightenment has never happened , and that we are not living on the ‘ post ’ side of a scientific revolution . |
| 27 | ‘ I can not pretend that I shall ever like him , ’ said the lawyer . |
| 28 | At this distance in time , I can not pretend that I had my doubts about its merits : what I did dwell on was a certain psychological subtlety in retailing the author 's love-life , though in terms which today would he considered ludicrously niminy-piminy . |
| 29 | A second ploy used by buyers is the ‘ sell cheap , the future looks bright ’ technique : ‘ We can not pretend that our offer meets you on price , but the real pay-off for you will come in terms of future sales . ’ |
| 30 | During this time , stocking levels must be minimal : you can not hope that it will sustain its previous population right from the off . |