Example sentences of "we can not have " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there is no kind of crisis going on , except perhaps in the environmental or ecological area and in our own minds when we try to secure for ourselves what we can not have : namely a zero risk . |
| 2 | John Gummer , Secretary of State for Agriculture , said : ‘ We can not have a situation in which the consumer does not have absolute confidence in British eggs . |
| 3 | We can not have a Briton winning the US Masters for the first time again , nor a Briton putting the green jacket on yet another Briton for the first time again . |
| 4 | But , surely , we can not have advanced so far from the socialist follies and delusions of the 1960s and 1970s , which all the world now rejects , to embrace them again under the banners of Mr Kinnock and Miss Glenda Jackson , Nupe and the apostles of Political Correctness , Mr Roy Hattersley and the heroes of a hundred town halls from Lambeth to Liverpool ? |
| 5 | The reflex protects the very sensitive area at the bottom of the skull and , because it works by reflex , we can not have conscious control over it . |
| 6 | We can not have a deep friendship without allowing that friendship to influence us , because that is the very nature of a deep friendship . |
| 7 | We can not have both x J and σ J non-basic , assuming U J > 0 , by ( 7.1 ) . |
| 8 | ( We can not have i = 1 , though I = 1 is possible . ) |
| 9 | Hence , we can not have either . |
| 10 | W H Smith said : ‘ We have sold out everywhere and the manufacturers have told us we can not have any more before Christmas . ’ |
| 11 | But we can not have a professional elite which is beyond criticism . ’ |
| 12 | Thus , in many cases we can not have both a true and fair view and an unfudgeable figure ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ We can not have all that we desire in this life , ’ pointed out Joan in a tone remarkably like that of their confessor , Father Powicke . |
| 14 | We can not have you here in all the circumstances . |
| 15 | For although we can be fairly sure that the recorded homicide figure is reasonably valid , we can not have the same confidence in the data on occupationally related deaths . |
| 16 | But they do not question traditional psychology 's male-identified emphasis on , for example , objectivity and success : ‘ We are both feminists … and although we have tried to be objective about the value-laden topics discussed in this book , we know we can not have succeeded entirely ’ ( 1974 : 12–13 , my emphasis ) . |
| 17 | ‘ We can not have a situation where no more books are written , where no more scenarios of films are made , or more music is composed . |
| 18 | No we can not have another guinea pig , who do you think has to look after all these animals when you get tired of them … |
| 19 | We can not have a fair society , we can not have equality , West Belfast can not be working when the women of West Belfast are treated in that way — and when the women do stand up and fight and say ‘ we are not going to put up with this any more ’ , what happens is they then become threatened by the privatisation of their jobs . |
| 20 | We can not have a fair society , we can not have equality , West Belfast can not be working when the women of West Belfast are treated in that way — and when the women do stand up and fight and say ‘ we are not going to put up with this any more ’ , what happens is they then become threatened by the privatisation of their jobs . |
| 21 | We can not have one without the other . |
| 22 | The best reply to both conclusions consists in providing what it is maintained we can not have . |
| 23 | If there is to be objectivity here , we can not have it that ‘ everything that seems right is right ’ . |
| 24 | So we can not have a strategy for teacher development any more than a teacher can have a strategy for child development . |
| 25 | We can not have the voluptuous strengths of new technology , but books have the attraction of maturity . |
| 26 | Thus , the argument runs , we can not have been around all that long ; otherwise , we would have already progressed more than we have . |
| 27 | We can not have the lord of a place such as Ringill intriguing with the likes of Bragad . ’ |
| 28 | Which , of course , ’ said the Archdeacon , a genuinely humble man , ‘ we can not have . |
| 29 | I mean I want to start with , with pensions pay and er , basically what 's happening is that everyone 's suffering pay cuts er and er th th what the government is doing is , first of all is attacking the State pension scheme er , and it 's allowing , er , employers to continue to rip-off occupational pension schemes and er since it 's pay , and it 's our pay , we wan na make sure we control it and I do n't see why the employers should be allowed to continue to exploit er , us both at one , both in terms of the pay we get now and the pay we get when we retire , whether it be at sixty whether it be er , whenever we wish to er retire and er , I think it 's very important if the government is er committed to crime prevention , that it actually starts doing something about those for , those , those employers , and Maxwell has , has been er referred to already , he 's just the tip of this very big iceberg er , and er , up and down the country , people are suffering substantial thefts of pay er employers are systematically organizing wages snatches , that 's what this er pension fraud is all about , and it 's about time that our government actually got round er and tackled this very important corporate crime issue that 's actually going on at the moment and er , I think that it 's very important that we ensure that we 're involved in er managing our own pension sch p pension funds , and therefore we should be pushing through demands of the er th the , the charter for pension fund democracy , and ensuring er that the government actually listens to what we 're saying , and actually er comes up with answers why we can not have the right to control our pay cos I can I ca n't see an any reason that they come back and say why democracy , why they ca n't , why , why they wo n't allow us to have a greater say and control our own pension funds and that 's I think is a legitimate demand that we should be campaigning for , up and down the country . |
| 30 | We can not have a successful economy without a vigorous manufacturing sector . |