Example sentences of "we can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since we are using it for choices of ends , we can not treat the awareness it prescribes simply as a universal means to our ends whatever they may be , which is what the admonition suggests in ordinary discourse ( with the implication ‘ If you do n't you 'll suffer for it ’ ) . |
| 2 | Their world views are so different that we can not treat them as participants in the same world . |
| 3 | The American expression for this position is to say that the resources of a local authority are not ‘ fungible ’ , meaning that we can not treat them as one mass . |
| 4 | He is unique in His person — we can not treat Him as if He was an ordinary human being . |
| 5 | The changes that have been introduced into South Africa forced upon the white minority government by both international pressure but also by the magnificent work at the A N C in Cosatu must be supported as well but we can not treat South Africa as anything but a pariah a , a , a national pariah until we see one person one vote , and a black majority government in South Africa . |
| 6 | We can not treat drawings like photographs . |
| 7 | Furthermore , we can not equate the spiritual with the religious . |
| 8 | If we can not beat the system , how can we get it to work for us ? |
| 9 | We all have experienced inability to sleep when we can not settle down and problems occupy our minds . |
| 10 | We can not settle the theory of life histories because we can not be sure whether cave organisms put more effort into reproduction than do their relatives at the surface ; nor can we be sure whether they have reduced metabolic rates , which makes it difficult to sort out the question of adaptation . |
| 11 | If we can not guess Jacob 's motives , the storyteller makes them plain : ‘ I may appease him with the present that goes before me , and afterwards I shall see his face ; perhaps he will accept me . ’ |
| 12 | We can not bear emotion in public , and we look at grief as pathological or a sign of emotional instability . |
| 13 | The true moral seems to be that a choice is difficult not because we can not decide which is the better but because we can not bear to give up the one that has not been chosen . |
| 14 | That we can not cope with another child , that we are not ready for parenthood , that we can not face raising a child without a partner , that we can not afford a child , that our method of birth control failed , that we are the victims of rape , that we can not bear the anguish of carrying a child to term and giving it up for adoption , that we can not accept the responsibility of caring for a handicapped child — these are the reasons why we seek abortion in the vast majority of cases . |
| 15 | We can not suppose , however , that discrimination training is quite without effect — to do so would eliminate any possibility of explaining why acquired distinctiveness training should be superior to acquired equivalence training in producing differentiation . |
| 16 | To say : " Educational technology is not about audiovisual materials " is perfectly true , but we can not suppose from this that it does not include them . |
| 17 | We can not suppose that one action is good and another not good unless we can pick out a further relevant difference between them . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We can not refuse , because we are in awe of the formidable women running the PTA . |
| 20 | Yet we can not refuse to cough up our subscriptions . |
| 21 | We have been pestered for men to protect several houses , and as these people have such influence , we can not refuse . ’ |
| 22 | We can not 'ave them go stale , you know . ’ |
| 23 | What is the point of bathing together in the beaches when in fact we can not sit together to make the laws of our country ? |
| 24 | Now for those of us that have been slightly biased by the dubiously titled ‘ Warehouse Raves ’ compilations that Rumour have been responsible for in the past , well we can not sit up and take note , because here comes their most exciting release for as long as I care to remember ( sorry Rumour ! ) . |
| 25 | We can not sit idly by and watch Yugoslavia tear itself to pieces , watch people being killed in vast numbers , and watch the wonderful archaeological and architectural gems being destroyed , while saying that there is nothing that we can do . |
| 26 | All I say is , if someone can not play in rhythm and has not music within him , then we can not admit him . |
| 27 | He seems to have had a good acquaintance with the theory and practice of shoeing , though we can not admit his claim to originality . |
| 28 | I must remind you that we can not admit any second-hand evidence . " |
| 29 | So we can not characterize the difference between inside and outside in terms of freedom vs. determinism . |
| 30 | But as a use of language , as an utterance , presented like this in isolation , it is quite incomprehensible , because we can not attach any meaning to it . |