Example sentences of "[noun] can [not/n't] be [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But because such funds ca n't be used for staff , education officials fear we could end up with smart new buildings and no teachers to put in them . |
| 2 | The child 's doing , the child 's active social experience and his own thinking and talking are the chief means of his education … words can not be substituted for things . |
| 3 | Addressing the Assembly on June 25 Havel declared : " I share the view that the state of uncertainty can not be prolonged for ever and the sooner the decision is taken the better . |
| 4 | Since the Unemployed Flow Survey reported no significant difference between men and women in this respect , the variation in the results obtained from the Cohort Study can not be accounted for by its concentration on men . |
| 5 | The problem is an epistemological one ; the different forms of consciousness can not be evaluated for their ‘ truth ’ value on the grounds of the topic of consciousness or its location in the mode of production . |
| 6 | They are among the easiest of fossil plants to recognize , for even flattened stems retain the characteristic jointing , and the feathery distal branches can not be mistaken for anything else . |
| 7 | The significant difference at 45 and 360 minutes postprandially between the results in the normal and these two morbidly obese subjects can not be accounted for by a difference in the urine output ( one way ANOVA , p>0.05 ) . |
| 8 | Most general practitioners may be very reluctant to travel in the early hours of the morning to see a patient because he had demanded that his own doctor attends , especially when they find that their practice can not be reimbursed for such a visit . |
| 9 | We pointed out earlier that such a proposal can not be accepted for the prenominal case because the prenominal and the clause structures are far from equivalent ; they admit different ranges of adjective , and the relation of the adjective to the head noun is different in the two cases . |
| 10 | Because of its protein content Simplesse can not be used for deep fat frying , although it can be used in some cooking applications — the cream can be used to make sauces or the cheese to make pizza or lasagne , but both these products are only available in the US at the moment . |
| 11 | Coarse sand can not be used for this purpose , because it soon enlarges the hole through which it flows . |
| 12 | A claim under Part I of the Consumer Protection Act can not be made for any damage to the defective product itself . |
| 13 | Third , the argument from error can not be attacked for relying on PC k . |
| 14 | The structure plan can not be seen for providing for a major or sudden change in direction . |
| 15 | As independent chain mobility can not be discounted for these longer chains after the onset of entanglement , a modified model is required to account for the ability of long chains to translate and diffuse through the polymer matrix , i.e. the entanglement network must be considered as being transient . |
| 16 | But this is a case where the stratigraphical wood can not be seen for the nomenclatural trees . |
| 17 | Standard bobbins can not be used for E cores , since all three legs have to be used for the isolated topology . |
| 18 | Service rating : No firm commitment , but the Taff teacher 's husband ca n't be faulted for attitude . |
| 19 | However , if the buildings can not be used for such purposes ‘ other uses are preferable to allowing the buildings to remain empty or grossly under-occupied ’ . |
| 20 | Volumes can not be accepted for verification ( described later ) in this situation , but may be rejected in order to regain space . |
| 21 | But it is equally clear that its nature can not be accounted for by demonstrating its rules by a random use of any lexical items that come to mind . |
| 22 | Problems of a non-recurring and non-foreseeable nature can not be provided for in a book of rules and procedures . |
| 23 | A counter-balance for Satan can not be found for Milton has gone too far in his wonderful description and characterisation so that even his portrayal of God can not even hope to rise to the same level . |
| 24 | ‘ A mythology can not be created for literary purposes out of whole cloth ; it must be the work of a race . ’ |
| 25 | This rule is the bane of fiction writers , who must take special care to ensure that the more villainous characters in their plots can not be mistaken for living persons . |
| 26 | According to David Downes , Dutch elites have ‘ a distinct appreciation of the extent to which community tolerance can not be taken for granted , but needs active elicitation and encouragement ’ . |
| 27 | There are some reliefs where costs can not be estimated for example on capital gains and inheritance tax lifetime transfer but both direct taxes and value added tax relief drew in some nine hundred and thirty million pounds on behalf of charities in the nineteen ninety two ninety three financial year . |
| 28 | The definition must be understood as stating that an idiom is an expression whose meaning can not be accounted for as a compositional function of the meanings its parts have when they are not parts of idioms . |
| 29 | If a sound basis can not be found for multicultural mathematics , then we may need to reconsider the value of this approach in other areas of the curriculum . |
| 30 | Under these standards , virgin forest can not be cleared for plantations , unproductive land must be reforested , and use of pesticides is strictly controlled . |