Example sentences of "[noun] can [not/n't] be [verb] by " in BNC.

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1 The educational needs of people engaged in rural development action can not be met by present provisions .
2 However , the causal influence of such characteristics can not be considered by itself , and must be investigated in the context of particular societies .
3 The reality that there are rights of ownership and that they are liable to , and do , conflict with those of labour can not be exorcised by pretending that they are not there ; and it is the exclusion of the public sector from the Committee 's purview which admits that reality .
4 The struggle to end capitalist wage labour can not be helped by women opting out and can only be undertaken by a working class that is less divided by male domination than the present one .
5 As a commodity , labour can not be allowed by management to participate in decision-making since this loss of control could endanger the private appropriation of profit ( Nichols 1980 , pp. 287–9 ) .
6 This extra card can only be used by that shaman — the card can not be used by other shamans .
7 The problems of Kashmir can not be resolved by violence .
8 Units not subject to fear can not be affected by this spell .
9 Some head teachers — a minority , I am glad to say — ask why their schools can not be inspected by inspectors they know .
10 Quite clearly , such tactics can not be tolerated by the association and unless things improve , the coming year may well be one of open confrontation . ’
11 Experience shows that the problem of the mind can not be solved by attacking the citadel itself … the mind is function of body … we must bring some stable foundation to argue from … ’ ( in Barrett , 1980 ) .
12 Once issued , bonuses can not be withdrawn by Clerical Medical regardless of future economic conditions and provided the policy is maintained in full force until the end of the term .
13 However , the cell can not be surrounded by an impermeable membrane , because it must acquire substances — ‘ food ’ — from outside .
14 Thus , for example , unc but this result can not be obtained by use of ( 4 ) since by inspection the submatrices of order 2 are all singular .
15 The point is , if genital mutilation can not be discussed by white social workers , health workers and teachers who have no knowledge of mutilation , how will they know how to handle it ?
16 An entry can not be made by an instrument used to make an entry such as a key or piece of wire used to pull back internal bolts .
17 Irish distress can not be removed by any Act of Repeal .
18 The higher states of consciousness can not be attained by will-power and application , any more than any other talent .
19 The ions and many of the compounds can not be made by direct combination of their constituent elements .
20 A remaining problem with substitutions for unknown characters is that the resulting candidates can not be ordered by likelihood of being correct , because the word could equally well be any of them .
21 Moreover , this rule can not be mitigated by mixing the d orbitals with p orbitals , because in a regular octahedron the d orbitals are g and the p orbitals are u .
22 In the former , Service departments are asked to list their lowest priority items , and to state the implications of their demise if the books can not be balanced by other means .
23 The groundmass mineralogy of lateritised Permian volcanics from Devon can not be determined by optical petrography but is clearly shown by chemical mapping with an automated electron microprobe .
24 The reason azeotropic mixtures can not be separated by fractional distillation is that they have maximum or minimum boiling points .
25 Although such mixtures can not be separated by fractional distillation , they can be separated by other means .
26 This is the position known as materialism ; it is opposed to idealism which , in a broad sense , sees the basis of human existence as abstract spiritual concepts whose origin can not be explained by natural circumstances .
27 In short , this kind of work can not be approached by examining its cost-effectiveness in terms of man-hours spent in the community .
28 The comparative study of political systems and especially public policy-making has given rise to the belief that the distinction between politics and administration is artificial and that the role of administrators can not be settled by a definition which relegates them to a purely instrumental position .
29 It is anticipated that US agencies are to declare Japan in violation of international treaties and , if the issue can not be resolved by negotiation , sanctions are likely to be imposed .
30 In London CDs can not be issued by banks in currencies where the responsible monetary authority seeks to discourage the use of its currency in this manner .
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