Example sentences of "[pron] can [not/n't] be [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have discharged my duty , she thought , I can not be troubled by my conscience in that respect . |
| 2 | ‘ I can not be suspected by anyone of seeking prestige , ’ he said . |
| 3 | This is easily seen in the mundane example of housework , which can not be done by making sporadic once-off assaults on it , but needs constant attention . |
| 4 | It is suggested that it is unsatisfactory to allow the rent to be fixed in reliance on assertions made by the parties which can not be challenged by cross examination , and where the expert is not to be given an opportunity of seeing and evaluating the quality of the witnesses . |
| 5 | I would advise such readers not to lose heart : there is nothing in this book which can not be grasped by an 11-year-old who employs a little application : I know , because I 've tested it on an 11-year-old . |
| 6 | Aggregation results in mixed or compound Poisson distributions which can not be fitted by standard methods . |
| 7 | The road will open the forest to settlers , who elsewhere have cleared forest for cattle , overhunted and introduced alcohol and diseases which can not be tolerated by forest people . |
| 8 | Unlike material from the Earth and other meteorites , carbonaceous chondrites have oxygen-isotope abundances which can not be explained by purely mass-related effects . |
| 9 | It is a quality which is clearly necessary for communication and therefore for foreign language learning , but which can not be explained by concentrating on the internal grammar of sentences . |
| 10 | Measurements taken by American satellites have pointed to a reduction of approximately 0.35–1.00 per cent per year through the 1980s which can not be explained by variations in the solar cycle ( Bowman , 1988 ) . |
| 11 | The finding that the smooth muscle MHC gene encodes multiple isoforms suggests that the proteins originally designated as SM1 and SM2 MHC probably represent multiple forms which can not be separated by one dimensional SDS-PAGE analysis . |
| 12 | A situation could arise where harmful bacteria , having become immune to disinfectants , survive to cause illness which can not be treated by antibiotics . |
| 13 | The realisation that we teach children more effectively if we understand them fully and set them against the social and cultural conditions in which they live and grow , places an expectation upon the teacher which can not be prescribed by contract . |
| 14 | It has been their job to see that local councils do not spend money on activities which can not be justified by statute . |
| 15 | In a recent paper , Stroud argues that Quine can be forced to acknowledge questions which can not be answered by his naturalized epistemology ( Stroud 1981 ) . |
| 16 | This was primarily an attempt to deal with synonyms which can not be conflated by a rule-based stemming procedure . |
| 17 | Psychodynamic studies pose a genuinely new problem for science , which can not be studied by the classic scientific methods of investigation and conceptualization ’ |
| 18 | Women of darkness ; Lady Macbeth , Mozart 's Queen of the Night , even Cathy , in Emily Brontë 's Wuthering Heights , with her fierce loves and hates which can not be bound by the rules of day . |
| 19 | ( 5 ) To provide a solution to other legal difficulties which can not be overcome by the ordinary powers available to a bidder or target company . |
| 20 | Besides those of proven wealth , the immigration laws only allow entry to specific categories of employees who are required to fill jobs which can not be filled by the existing labour force . |
| 21 | A grant for an uncertain term which takes the form of a yearly tenancy which can not be determined by the landlord does not create a lease . |
| 22 | Care has to be taken with the adjacent values , which can not be obtained by reading off distances on the graph paper ; they must be obtained arithmetically . |
| 23 | We have judges to decide punishments for criminals , and we have a large army , which can not be defeated by any other in the world . ’ |
| 24 | Therefore , the costs which are the most crucial are those which represent sudden and massive increases , which can not be absorbed by improving productivity . |
| 25 | ESs are increasingly being used to model knowledge which can not be represented by conventional programming ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 26 | Two further factors result in a five-dimensional model which can not be represented by a two-dimensional drawing . |
| 27 | However many of the allegedly doubtful species have more recently been re-recorded , and the work of Heslop Harrison and his team remains a major contribution which can not be ignored by any serious student of the Outer Hebridean flora . |
| 28 | At present , interest on deposits is paid after deducting a fixed rate of tax , which can not be reclaimed by non-taxpayers . |
| 29 | ( ii ) an anomaly which can not be removed by replacing one or more open set items , but can be removed by changing one or more closed set items , is purely grammatical ; |
| 30 | In CHINA , where 49% of contraceptors use the IUD , a new type of IUD has been introduced recently which can not be removed by the woman . |