Example sentences of "[be] [that] [pers pn] can not be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The plain answer is that we can not be certain about it . |
| 3 | The main trouble with the scheme is that we can not be sure that an apparent X effect is not due to a differential influence of some extraneous factor(s) on the S 1 and S 2 groups . |
| 4 | The problem is that we can not be sure that there is no hidden cyclic variation in the list sequence that could cause bias . |
| 5 | Instead of saying that in the absence of a community there can be no rules , we say that what is wrong with the solipsist 's rules is that they can not be set up in the way he pretends , by using a private experience as a sample . |
| 6 | The difficulty with these checks is that they can not be adjusted to trap the returning hammers without hindering their upward motion . |
| 7 | The golden rule of this type of plan , in fact , there 's quite a few , the first one I really to want you to , just take on board , is that you can not be better off financially , by claiming under this policy , than you were when you were actually at work . |
| 8 | The disadvantage of rope or parafil is that it can not be retrieved at high speed without the friction overheating and burning the material . |
| 9 | The only disadvantage of the method is that it can not be used for certain solvents , such as alcohol , which do n't appear to be absorbed by Tenax . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But the point about the evaluation of materials is that it can not be carried out in dissociation from the contexts of particular classrooms : it must be part of the process of self-monitoring mediation that I am advocating here . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But what we have to notice here is that it can not be right for mere historical description either : as there is no such thing as a uniform language or dialect ( and standardization implies uniformity ) , and as sound-changes do not proceed in straight lines , this can not possibly be an adequate conceptualization of English phonological history . |
| 14 | However , one disadvantage of a forward contract is that it can not be cancelled without the agreement of both counterparties . |
| 15 | His reason is that he can not be sure of what code of manners were followed there and if they were not the same as his it would seem as if he were almost a bully in chasing down someone below his class . |