Example sentences of "[conj] it can [not/n't] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it is not only the visible and active exercise of power that needs to be equalized , but also the possession of power , which , where it can not be redistributed , must at least be made accountable within the framework of democracy . |
| 2 | There can be no doubt that this sort of help is most valuable for teachers , and where it can not be provided from a curriculum development project itself might in less ambitious form be offered from a teachers ' centre or from a schools library service , although in the latter case the advice on sub-themes and topics would necessarily be tentative rather than prescriptive . |
| 3 | Although it can not be ruled out that some unconscious oro-pharyngeal muscle movement was occurring during the experimental tasks , ‘ inner speech ’ is probably not dependent on such movements . |
| 4 | Subsequently , the Galactic Centre has been shown to be astonishingly bright at many wavelengths , although it can not be seen optically because it is obscured by intervening dust . |
| 5 | Thirdly , thorough cooking and rapid cooking will usually destroy pathogens although it can not be relied on to destroy spores or preformed toxins . |
| 6 | This realization has led to a great deal of debate and , although it can not be said that a general consensus has been reached on how best to define development , a good deal of light has been shed on the processes involved in different types of development . |
| 7 | However , although it can not be achieved in practice , the concept of an isolated system il important in estimating the maximum theoretical energy differences between a system and surroundings . |
| 8 | Although it can not be worked on , it will still be available to be used as the basis for a new DC ( at least until it has been hard copied ) . |
| 9 | The move back to full employment , an integral part of the reform being advocated here , will itself have an indirect effect on wage levels , particularly for those at the bottom end of the income pile , although it can not be stressed enough that the drive towards full employment must be matched by a commitment to improve the productivity of all workers — including those on low pay . |
| 10 | Apart from the disinfection role a sterilising sink has a useful secondary role in providing heated soaking facilities for heavily soiled small equipment although it can not be used for both roles at the same time . |
| 11 | The position I have tried to adopt is that whilst the atheist must demand clarity , the theist can argue that the nature of his or her task necessitates a use of language that is bound to be criticised as unusual , although it can not be allowed to be contradictory . |
| 12 | Although it can not be proved , there is a strong likelihood that they were working at the old Tilberthwaite Mine in the early part of the next century … someone was , as we shall see late . |
| 13 | The point is that it can not be presumed to be , without careful enquiry into the whole range of factors that bear upon educational decisions . |
| 14 | The police and the Government can be proud of the police national computer because it fights crime , but it is important that they offer assurance to the general public that it can not be misused and does result in people being dealt with differently . |
| 15 | For instance the report argues that the actual overcrowding and potential greater overcrowding at the school is not so great that it can not be met with temporary classrooms and eventually new extensions to the school ( DDP : 11–12 ) . |
| 16 | If you choose a ball , however , be sure that it is large enough so that it can not be swallowed . |
| 17 | But the scale of recruitment to the revolutionary underground suggests that it can not be explained in terms of individual maladjustment . |
| 18 | Much political research still relies on this approach to explain how government is maintained , but immediate problems that present themselves are that it can not be assumed either that the institutions or organisations themselves do really exercise power or that their nominal members are all equally active in such exercise of power as there is . |
| 19 | that it can not be assumed that a paper print out of an electronic record from these systems is the same as the electronic version , on the grounds that the paper version does not bring with it the context that gives the information provenance and credibility . |
| 20 | Will my hon. Friend further agree , on that important issue , that it can not be argued that there are no precedents of statutory instruments being subject to amendment ? |
| 21 | The strength or his argument is such that it can not be dismissed as merely a distortion of the formula by which ‘ capitalism , is understood as the guarantor of ‘ bourgeois freedom ’ . |
| 22 | It is perhaps as well that the British Library does not concern itself with such phenomena , but the absence of the raw material means , again , that it can not be studied properly at what is the centre of literary culture par excellence . |
| 23 | Stephen Taylor , the consultancy 's chairman , says : ‘ The problem with building the empowered organisation is that it can not be done by the methods of the command organisation . |
| 24 | First , he shows scathingly that it can not be done , this perfect law-keeping . |
| 25 | Most experts agree that it can not be done and that the poll tax will live on until 1994 . |
| 26 | Initially , then , on being approached to promote an order , it is the task of the agent to confirm that the order is in fact viable , that is to say , that the objects of the order can not be achieved without an order confirmed by parliament — that it can not be done by other means . |
| 27 | One merely has to read its wording to see that it can not be given any sensible meaning in a context such as the present , where the mind and will of the defendants are also treated in law as the mind and will of ‘ the other . ’ |
| 28 | Those opposed to the ordination of women to the priesthood maintain that it can not be seen as a legitimate development because it is ‘ closely related to the central doctrines of the Christian faith ’ . |
| 29 | In addition , it is obvious that it can not be relied on until there has been a substantial amount of trading between the same parties . |
| 30 | In an article written in support of the ordination of women to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church in the United States , Richard Norris , whose scholarship I have just mentioned , argues that the tenets of patristic Christology are such that it can not be said that a baptized woman is differently related than is a man to Jesus as the Christ . |