Example sentences of "[conj] can not be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost by definition , crises are periods when the normally routinized operations of the bureaucracy are insufficient or can not be relied on , when decisions have to be quickly pushed up through the chain of command , and where unusually large and direct role in controlling policy implementation has to be taken by political leaders . |
| 2 | It has also set out some rules about which menu items can or can not be increased in price . |
| 3 | The court will set aside a decision if it is taken by someone who is not or can not be appointed as the expert . |
| 4 | This they consider ‘ a more accurate representation of the everyday notion of burden [ and ] a more sensible concept for deciding if the real cost of a certain project can or can not be postponed to future generations ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ ( a ) no evidence shall be admissible in any proceedings before a judicial authority exercising its jurisdiction or functions in Great Britain to prove that any such person has committed … any offence which was the subject of a spent conviction ; and ’ ( b ) a person shall not , in any such proceedings , be asked , and , if asked , shall not be required to answer , any question relating to his past that can not be answered without acknowledging or referring to a spent conviction or spent convictions or any circumstances thereto ; … ’ |
| 6 | There will be great debate surrounding the engine and many questions will be raised that can not be answered except in terms of likelihood . |
| 7 | Whether these entry positions can , in turn , be levered into positions of more than a new dependency on the technological leaders is an open question and one that can not be answered in the general case . |
| 8 | Ask for details of sensations , where they are situated , where they move to , how they start and change , find out what the pattern is but take care to use open ended questions whenever possible ; questions that can not be answered by a simple ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ , such as ‘ How does your head feel ? ’ instead of ‘ Do you have a headache ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Are the same pupils regularly absent ? ’ is the first obvious question that can not be answered by examining attendance rates . |
| 10 | Present levels of breakdown , isolation , fear and violence are evils that can not be separated from the economic system that delivers the goods . |
| 11 | If it is important to understand a number of practical policies , because of a concern about their effects upon society , it is necessary to accept studies that can not be defined in terms of a discrete intellectual discipline . |
| 12 | Although there are numbers that can not be expressed as a sum of three squares , for instance 7 , Gauss had managed to find the number of expressions when they do exist . |
| 13 | Their ideologies create enclosed belief-systems that can not be affected by evidence which contradicts them . |
| 14 | There must , of course , be money-making enterprises as well to buy those necessities that can not be grown on the farm , but these will be looked upon as secondary calls on the agricultural operations in which farm surpluses are sold to supplement the cash income from non-farming sources . |
| 15 | As was recognized in the US in the 1960s ( David , 1965 ) , the social services have the potential for providing rewarding and socially useful employment for a large proportion of the work-force that can not be absorbed by other sectors of the labour market . |
| 16 | The key criteria are that a person has a range of needs that can not be met by one agency alone and his or her ability to live independently is in jeopardy . |
| 17 | On July 10 , 1990 , the government announced that as a result of its decision to withdraw subsidies " for commodities in ever-growing demand that can not be met by home production " it would ( i ) almost double the price of fuel ; ( ii ) increase the price of luxury goods , newspapers and books ; and ( iii ) double the price of mineral water . |
| 18 | Newman argued that as a commitment in the light of evidence that can not be treated as proof , religious belief is like rather than unlike other forms of belief . |
| 19 | These are then sub-divided by sorting the sherds in each group into rim sherds ( from the top of the pot ) , base sherds ( from the bottom of the pot ) , fragments of handles , and body sherds ( sherds from any other part of the pot that can not be recognized as the base , rim or handle ) . |
| 20 | Schemes will no longer be considered for registration where the fixed percentage of profit or the specified amount of the notional pool to be distributed as PRP depend on a formula that can not be determined at the time of writing the scheme ( p 103 ) . |
| 21 | By awarding the Dalai Lama the Nobel Peace Prize , it has strengthened what is the one real threat to Peking 's rule of Tibet , the one source of dissent that can not be silenced by guns : the international prestige of Tibet 's exiled ‘ God King ’ . |
| 22 | In the first three years of a Service 's Long-Term Costing after the actual estimates year , there seems to be a bow-wave of requirements that can not be fitted into the programme . |
| 23 | To say that Socrates is mortal is true is not to say anything that can not be said by asserting that Socrates is mortal . |
| 24 | The Dogon were aware that the planet Saturn had rings and that the planet Jupiter had four moons , which are pieces of information that can not be obtained without the use of a telescope — an artefact the Dogon have yet to discover . |
| 25 | It also requires forms of political control and accountability that can not be evaded by the structural logic of the bureaucrats ' class position . |
| 26 | exhibiting a full range of products , particularly large items that can not be demonstrated by a travelling representative ; |
| 27 | This humble record — the date stamp — should not be undervalued , since a loan history on the book may be correlated during the weeding process with other factors ( physical condition , the content of other shelf stock ) in a way that can not be achieved through automated systems . |
| 28 | This allows a large number of variations in style to be incorporated into a single page , something that can not be achieved with digitised fonts as these , by definition , are of a fixed size and style . |
| 29 | Focusing on effectiveness and outcomes as a basis for decisions on rationing is a desirable aim that can not be achieved at present when so much of health care is unevaluated . |
| 30 | Efforts to improve the efficiency have included the introduction of disinfectants into the steam but this has proved extremely wasteful and the effect offers little that can not be achieved by cleaning with hot high pressure water jets and the separate spray application of a suitable disinfectant . |