Example sentences of "[indef pn] [conj] can not [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On it I shall argue that there is nothing that can not be understood , that there is nothing that can not be explained , and that everything is extraordinarily simple A great deal of the universe does not need any explanation . |
| 2 | On it I shall argue that there is nothing that can not be understood , that there is nothing that can not be explained , and that everything is extraordinarily simple A great deal of the universe does not need any explanation . |
| 3 | For here there appears to be nothing that can not be transfused utterly with spirit , with high feeling , with fierce clean passion . |
| 4 | There is , it seems , nothing that can not be done on a croquet lawn that can be done on a golf fairway . |
| 5 | ‘ There is nothing that can not be coped with by the co-operation of captains and the vigilance of the umpires . |
| 6 | It is something that can not be explained away . |
| 7 | I do not mean , of course , that it was something that can not be explained yet , but rather that it was something of which no explanation can conceivably be found . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The difficulty with defining God is that the theist is perfectly entitled to claim that ‘ God ’ refers to something that can not be known in the way that other things are known . |
| 10 | This is something that can not be left to the dub because we will see the wind from the propellers buffeting the actors . |
| 11 | The right book becomes something passionately possessed ( ‘ mine ! ’ ) , something that can not be read too often , the text being treated with an almost academic concern for accuracy . |
| 12 | This is something that can not be taken for granted , as with the best will in the World , even the most expert goldfish keeper will suffer equipment failures etc. in his or her absence which can , during hot weather for example , lead to loss of fish or triggering off disease . |
| 13 | They try to manage for themselves something that can not be managed , but needs only to be accepted with proper gratitude and clear insight into the nature of the giver . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The successes of molecular biology are sufficiently striking to show that whatever the true relation of biology may be to physics , it is certainly a subtle one that can not be encapsulated in a single word . |
| 16 | The task of child protection is , in a sense , the other side of the coin and one that can not be made easy for social workers , despite the sharper and hopefully more effective legal tools they will now have for the job . |
| 17 | Think of a desired alternative action — one that can not be performed at the same time as the ‘ problem ’ behaviour ( see page 55 ) . |
| 18 | The relationship between k and r is one that can not be guaranteed to hold when we allow for the heterogeneity of capital , as the debate on ‘ 'reswitching ’ has brought out ( see for example Bliss , 1975 , and Harcourt , 1972 ) . |
| 19 | There is a very real danger that cleaning stores may become general junk rooms providing a home for everything and anything that can not be stored easily . |
| 20 | To say that Socrates is mortal is true is not to say anything that can not be said by asserting that Socrates is mortal . |
| 21 | Anything that can not be measured does not exist . |