Sentence examples for cannot pretend to be from inspiring English sources
Rosebery, who has been described as febrile and supercilious, replied in a letter of congratulations on the birth of his heir from Mary Gladstone: "I cannot pretend to be much excited by an event which occurs to almost every human being and which may cause me a great deal of annoyance".
And yet I cannot pretend to be entirely satisfied.
And when they emerge, we cannot pretend to be shocked.
It cannot pretend to be anything other than it is.
"Hazaras cannot pretend to be innocent," said one Pashtun who has worked in Bamian.
We cannot pretend to be radical if we do not reform our antiquated, 700-year-old voting system.
That is, one node cannot easily pretend to be another node in the network.
For instance, according to Kölbel (2010: 125) in a situation of contract signing, you cannot just pretend to be signing a contract; if you write your name at the appropriate place, you have thereby signed the contract, whatever went on in your mind.
It was one of the combatants in the conflict and is not and cannot be, or pretend to be, an objective or neutral referee.
This is a city which cannot and does not pretend to be anything other than what it is.
By law, collection agencies cannot contact a person before 8 a.m. or after 9 p.m.; they cannot threaten arrest or harm or pretend to be some kind of legal enforcement officer or agency.
