Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] can not be [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Er the only point I wish to make is that there is considerable variability we have found in the grading erm and the Ministry of Agriculture maps can not be relied upon for relatively small er or larger areas .
2 Without it chains of command and responsibility patterns can not be established .
3 One view is that successor States can not be regarded as third parties because of the continuing link between their territory and the treaty .
4 Because of interaction , component values can not be determined by a simple ‘ rule of thumb ’ and it is necessary to equate the response in terms of impedances with that in terms of time constants .
5 In market situations where the flexibility and responsiveness of work organization is crucial to competitive advantage , successful change strategies can not be premised on the simplicities of the structure-strategy paradigm .
6 Compadrinazgo ties can not be created between Buid and lowlanders because the Buid reject the Christian rituals on which they are based .
7 Four elements here are open to criticism : ( 1 ) the term batteur de mesure had become discredited and much less used by 1790 , because of its association with the bad old days ; ( 2 ) the ‘ large stick ’ whatever its size in 1750 , got markedly smaller by 1790 ; ( 3 ) there was no unified body of opinion which attacked ‘ woodchopping ’ over the decades : in fact Rousseau 's text , and those of his epigones , aspired to make musico-political points in favour of Italian opera as much as about beating time ; ( 4 ) audible stick signals can not be said , at least after 1781 , to have ‘ co-ordinated ’ chorus and ballet , if that implies ‘ heard as a matter of course ’ ; the evidence shows that no audible signal was thereafter heard as a matter of course .
8 The other problem is that common investment funds can not be tailored to suit your requirements .
9 The Sterling + 2 range is extremely powerful , and its accounting functions can not be faulted , from stock control right through to its reports .
10 It is now accepted that new prerogative powers can not be created , but the scope of many established prerogative powers is unclear .
11 Obviously all claims not requiring the appointment of Loss Adjusters can not be inspected but certain categories require closer investigation than others .
12 It therefore follows that if car speeds can not be reduced , large residential areas can make gains in both their environmental traffic qualities and in their safety only by the dilution of the shared-space ideal by the provision of footpaths as pedestrian refuges .
13 The McKinsey-GE matrix also recognizes that in many businesses investment decisions can not be made simply upon information about market growth and the current share held .
14 If labour requirements can not be met through the more efficient or intensive use of the existing labour force , a great many employers ( almost half ) use temporary or casual labour including former registered dockers made redundant under the Dock Labour Compensation Scheme .
15 The clinical and biological profiles of Zollinger-Ellison sydrome patients who develop fundic ECL cell tumours can not be determined from the study of such a small number of cases .
16 Whilst the user companies can not be expected to make the necessary investment for themselves , this approach and its great benefits will remain unrealized .
17 For example , this particular entry , which is itself a text , coheres within itself , but its component elements can not be said to relate , or cohere , to the previous or following entries , except within the context of the whole handbook .
18 Social workers and doctors who wrongly diagnose sex abuse cases can not be sued for their mistakes , the High Court ruled last week .
19 Furthermore , as we will see , some actions in respect of public law wrongs can not be brought under Ord. 53 .
20 ‘ step-by-step ’ question responses can not be obtained because the respondent usually reads all the questions before starting
21 Lattice enthalpies can not be determined directly .
22 The balances on their operating statements can not be called profits or losses , rather they are called surpluses or deficits .
23 However , in some instances , private law rights can not be protected by an AJR .
24 Table 1.5 gives the figures for full-time , part-time and total degree enrolments in 11 subject groups between 1979–80 and 1986–87 , excluding the Open University where degree courses can not be grouped in this way because of the structure of foundation plus optional courses ( Open University 1989 ) .
25 Extrapolations for drug costs can not be made from the prescribing unit because of the age and sex related differences in costs per item that we have shown .
26 In the absence of such research , Troyna 's confident rejection of multiculturalist strategies can not be sustained , although of course the antiracist argument that teaching about ‘ other cultures ’ does not necessarily give an understanding of the racism of one 's own remains intact .
27 This is so , for example , if its inclusion is not material for the purposes of giving a true and fair view or if , in effect , the parent is not able to exercise dominance over the subsidiary or holds its interest in the subsidiary exclusively with a view to resale , or the information necessary for group accounts can not be obtained without disproportionate delay or expense .
28 Increasing loan redemption periods can not be done without incurring costs in the form of interest charges .
29 Multiple record buckets can not be handled in this way , as groups of records that randomize to the same bucket do not generally have anything else in common , so that the whole bucket has to be searched to see if the desired record is in it .
30 For the same reason , difference bands can not be intensified by Fermi resonance .
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