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Example sentences for "cannot have"

  • That all swans are white, cannot have been a good induction, since the conclusion has turned out erroneous.

  • This assurance, in the great majority of cases, we cannot have, or can have only in a very moderate degree.

  • We cannot have a magnet with one pole: if we break a natural loadstone into a thousand pieces, each piece will have its two oppositely electrified poles complete within itself.

  • But it cannot have a movement of withdrawal: because the evil is supposed to be already present or past.

  • I answer that, The passion of anger is peculiar in this, that it cannot have a contrary, either according to approach and withdrawal, or according to the contrariety of good and evil.

  • But you will say, "Then why did God give the law, if we cannot have salvation by following of it?

  • As to my state when I was so fortunate as to meet you, I think he cannot have received my letter.

  • Let God alone receive our mutual pledges; we cannot have a better witness, for He knows the purity of our intentions.

  • I cannot have a sheep-boy with skirts, he must have pants; the sheep would not like a sheep-boy with skirts.

  • As nature is adequate to produce every thing we see--as she contains the whole united power of the universe, her power has consequently no limits: the being who conferred this power cannot have less.

  • Godwin probably thought it so much, he cannot have thought it more, and may have thought it less than that amount by one half.

  • Your Emily, your happy Emily, sir, has not, cannot have a heart that is worth notice, if it be not implicitly guided by you.

  • Hence, his reason dictates that he should seek peace as far as he can, and strengthen himself by all the helps of war against those with whom he cannot have peace.

  • I will be careful not to grumble nor whine when things go wrong, or when I cannot have my own way.

  • Because, though faith be founded on the testimony of God (who cannot lie) revealing any proposition to us: yet we cannot have an assurance of the truth of its being a divine revelation greater than our own knowledge.

  • Confirmed by concurrent reasons:--First, Because we cannot have ideas of Sensation but by the Inlet of the Senses.

  • Never mind; we cannot have it looked into, and rooted out, and pulled up.

  • If we cannot have what we would, methinks it is a great bond to find a friend that will strain himself in his friend's cause in whatsoever--as this world fareth.

  • He cannot have profited by his investment in the adventure, and was not disposed to be fervent in its praise.

  • While he cannot have failed to perceive something admirable in Ralegh, he would not value the majority of his merits.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cannot abide; cannot afford; cannot attempt; cannot bear; cannot believe; cannot call; cannot comprehend; cannot conceive; cannot expect; cannot fail; cannot forbear; cannot forget; cannot have; cannot hope; cannot imagine; cannot represent; cannot represent; cannot see; cannot tell; cannot tell you how; cannot think; full career; giving them; single stroke; tis but; vocal expression