Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] can [not/n't] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can take up to three breaks , but the total length can not be longer than five years . |
| 2 | For small samples , say below 50 , the normal distribution can not be used and it is necessary to use the Student 's t distribution . |
| 3 | For small samples , say below 50 , the normal distribution can not be used and it is necessary to use the Student 's t distribution . |
| 4 | The difficulty in assessing this point is that in most cases the normal justification can not be established unless the putative authority enjoys some measure of recognition , and exercises power over its subjects . |
| 5 | The contours of the political system can not be seen as something external to the mass media , something on which they have an ‘ impact ’ , since they play a part in its determination by , for instance , giving meanings to events , by setting the agenda for debate and by shaping the political climate . |
| 6 | Now more than ever their life revolves around the government ; and even where , as in the United States , they are formally independent organs of constitutional and political power , their relationship with the political executive can not be a purely critical or obstructive one . |
| 7 | The modified theory can not be tested in any way that was not also a test of the original theory . |
| 8 | The metabolic concentrations can not be taken to be representative of analgesic ratios . |
| 9 | The complete lexicon can not be loaded into memory . |
| 10 | In the case of magistrates this was confirmed in Croydon LBC v N and Others [ 1987 ] 2 FLR 61 although the inherent jurisdiction can not be exercised to contravene any statutory provision , regulation or rule binding upon the court . |
| 11 | SIR — As the Labour Party can not be trusted to display the red rose without it withering , may we have it back again in time for St George 's Day , April 23 , so that it may be proudly worn again by loyal Englishmen . |
| 12 | The speaking voices or personae who function as the subjects of the fictional enunciations can not be straightforwardly identified with real-life authors but are essentially poetic constructs , resulting from the interpretative engagement of the reader with the language of the text ( Herman 1989 ) . |
| 13 | If the semantic representation can not be created from the parse structure then the sentence is rejected . |
| 14 | This is unfortunate as these implied terms are a very useful weapon for the buyer and , in the case of consumer sales , the implied terms can not be excluded or modified at all . |
| 15 | Even if the buyer relies on the seller 's skill or judgment , the implied condition can not be invoked where this reliance is unreasonable . |
| 16 | The operation of the offline system can not be completely divorced from manual procedures associated with the offline media items . |
| 17 | The familial form can not be excluded , however , without full investigation of other family members , which is not possible here . |
| 18 | This favourite atrocity of the English kitchen can not be too strongly condemned ’ ( The Dinner Question , 1860 ) . |
| 19 | The marine figures can not be compared with those at High Wycombe , and the quality as well as the subject of the central panel is exceptional . |
| 20 | Unemployment only arises under these circumstances because the public interest can not be coped with by private interests operating freely in the market place . |
| 21 | The cursed item can not be removed , either , once put on . |
| 22 | Even Adomnán 's reference to ‘ strangers ’ holding sway among the Dalriadic Scots can not be construed as a reference to the agents of King Oswiu ( or Ecgfrith ) because these strangers are represented as oppressing Dál Riata from c . |
| 23 | That being so , the direct object can not be said to be totally redundant . |
| 24 | Similarly the effectiveness of export-led growth in the British case can not be squared with the continued rise of import penetration and the level of domestic demand which this represented . |
| 25 | Coyne will be fully recovered by the time The Godfathers head off for European and American dates by the end of the month , but the British dates can not be rescheduled until early autumn . |
| 26 | A spiritual discipline should not make a practitioner lose control , become vague , dreamy and inept in his daily life : eccentric or uncontrolled behaviour is a sign that the mystical experience can not be integrated with the mundane . |
| 27 | But this is a case where the stratigraphical wood can not be seen for the nomenclatural trees . |
| 28 | While the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century can not be wholly explained simply in terms of this general cultural and social upheaval , it was most certainly part of it . |
| 29 | But there is the same substantial caveat which we registered in the case of the Nuer : the particular kind of mystical powers which sustain the social order can not be predicted from the social order . |
| 30 | The enhanced changes observed in this study in posterior wall biopsy specimens compared with those from the anterior wall can not be explained by any clinical factor . |