Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] 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 complete lexicon can not be loaded into memory .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 If the semantic representation can not be created from the parse structure then the sentence is rejected .
12 Even if the buyer relies on the seller 's skill or judgment , the implied condition can not be invoked where this reliance is unreasonable .
13 The operation of the offline system can not be completely divorced from manual procedures associated with the offline media items .
14 The familial form can not be excluded , however , without full investigation of other family members , which is not possible here .
15 This favourite atrocity of the English kitchen can not be too strongly condemned ’ ( The Dinner Question , 1860 ) .
16 Unemployment only arises under these circumstances because the public interest can not be coped with by private interests operating freely in the market place .
17 The cursed item can not be removed , either , once put on .
18 That being so , the direct object can not be said to be totally redundant .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 But this is a case where the stratigraphical wood can not be seen for the nomenclatural trees .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 Judicial realisation that the full implications of the adjudicative model can not be applied in this area is of course beneficial .
26 Sometimes the absolute measurement can not be used but the size can be deduced indirectly from viscosity measurements , which are related to the volume occupied by the chain in solution .
27 The moral vacuum can not be filled by preaching , exhortation and moralisations .
28 The central requirement can not be escaped : almost every action that would remedy and reassure involves the relationship between the citizen and the state .
29 The applicant is required to certify that he has taken nature conservation into account when implementing his scheme , even though the average farmer can not be expected to be capable of assessing such impacts .
30 The problem is that the second question can not be answered until Washington comes up with a consensus on the first .
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