Example sentences of "[adj] can not be [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed it is quite possible that at this pH range there is a mixture of gastric acid and duodenal alkaline juices which may be damaging ( with toxic synergism ) to the oesophageal mucosa , but this can not be assessed using the parameter of pH . |
| 2 | ‘ This can not be allowed to pass without redress ! |
| 3 | They say that the French can not be trusted to maintain safety at a plant which , though on French soil , is surrounded by Belgium . |
| 4 | The advice given by these advisers would properly have been guided by expediency as much as by any rules of interpretation and as such can not be taken to represent a body of thought about dreaming . |
| 5 | Surely these can not be said to have objects or contents in the given sense . |
| 6 | Claims of rights to unearned privileges , in any of the manifold walks of life , will always be a source of much conflict and , above all can not be allowed to form part of any religion . |
| 7 | Clearly the blind , the deaf and the crippled can not be expected to make do with ordinary educational provision but require specially adapted teaching methods , and in some cases peripatetic teachers if they are confined to their beds at home . |
| 8 | If the former can not be allowed to happen because this spells an end to society , then external coercion must come to replace internal restraint ; and drives which can not be inhibited and redirected by the ego and superego must instead be mastered by agencies of social control . |
| 9 | It follows that these transformations on their own can not be used to generate genuinely non-colinear solutions from colinear ones . |
| 10 | That can not be allowed to happen . |
| 11 | Mr Devine could face up to 300 lashes for the offence , his MP says that can not be allowed to happen . |
| 12 | ‘ Had we let this one pass without action it would have set a precedent for others to follow and that can not be allowed to happen . ’ |