Example sentences of "can they [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ageing presents not only a medical problem , but also an evolutionary paradox : if organisms can function well in youth , why can they not continue to do so in old age ? |
| 2 | If you do , on , if you 're in a negative cycle , and you do start getting positive reactions , if you 're lucky and recognise that , can they not turn the whole thing around ? |
| 3 | Can they not see that Europe 's farmers would be forced down one of two routes . |
| 4 | ‘ How can they not understand that to do a real Kitezh or a real Ruslan — as we will do in the next year or so , it 's planned — is much more honourable , much more pleasurable artistically and much more important to the artistic world that a middleclass performance of , let's say , Rigoletto , in a small opera-house in Germany or Italy ? |
| 5 | Can they not take the example of Big Wade who , in the Grand Slam match , gained his 50th England cap playing part-time for the so-called junior club of Preston Grasshoppers ? |