Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] can not [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both force F and area S are vector quantities , but stress is force/area , which we can not be defined using vectors . |
| 2 | Paying all pre-payments into a trust account from which they can not be withdrawn until the package has been provided . |
| 3 | These achievements can be demonstrated in the remoter areas , with all their current problems , in fact , because of their current problems , in a manner in which they can not be demonstrated in the great centres of industrial and political power . |
| 4 | Do not allow the civil service to say that there are ways in which it can not be done . |
| 5 | They say that the explosion was due to hitherto unknown chemical or physical events for which it can not be held responsible for failing to predict . |
| 6 | That is where our freedom lies and it is that freedom which the fatwa threatens , and which it can not be allowed to destroy . ’ |
| 7 | For instance , the words ‘ inshore fishing is n't an easy life ’ might add something which can not be gathered from the pictures alone . |
| 8 | On the contrary , it is time to treat religion as something strange and outside the ordinary run of life , something which , mysteriously , has had a vast effect on people , over which wars were fought and people were burned and persecuted , and which still has an effect on people ; something which can not be reduced to mere kindness at the old people 's parties or village jumble sales , but which has inspired some of the most splendid painting , writing , music , and architecture ever to be produced by the human imagination , and is still capable of producing martyrdom , cruelty , and sectarian passion . |
| 9 | That makes it a real , live possibility , and one which can not be ignored , surely ? ’ |
| 10 | ( ii ) The word " irreducible " is a good one for elements with the property listed in 1.3.5(ii) since according to that definition an irreducible element is one which can not be represented as a product of two properly " smaller " elements . |
| 11 | In effect it implies a very complex situation in relation to attitudes and one which can not be resolved here . |
| 12 | In so doing he may come as near as he can ever hope to an understanding of war as people of the late Middle Ages knew it , no easy task even in the most favourable conditions , but one which can not be attempted with any hope of success without a proper appreciation of the many threads which make up history . |
| 13 | He described the celebration of saints ' days and festivals as manifestations of the ‘ splendid outward dignity of our religion , forcible witnesses of ancient truth , provocations to the exercise of all piety , shadows of our endless felicity in heaven … wherein they which can not be drawn to hearken unto what we teach may only by looking upon that we do , in a manner read whatsoever we believe ’ . |
| 14 | Within this scheme of thought , anything which can not be controlled is labelled dangerous and marginal , particularly when society is working to preserve its unity and to develop more sophisticated systems of self-definition , as was the case for the Jewish community in Palestine following the exile . |