Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [noun sg] can not [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They considered that a building or product can not be regarded as a complex structure if it has been wholly constructed or manufactured by one person , so as to form a single indivisible unit . |
| 2 | Where a third party notice has been issued in a default action , judgment on admission or default can not be entered without a hearing ( Ord 12 , r 1(7) ) . |
| 3 | Section 5(1) of UCTA 1977 states : 5- ( 1 ) In the case of goods of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption , where loss or damage ( a ) arises from the goods proving defective while in consumer use ; and ( b ) results from the negligence of a person concerned in the manufacture or distribution of the goods , liability for the loss or damage can not be excluded or restricted by reference to any contract term or notice contained in or operating by reference to a guarantee of the goods . |
| 4 | As Liberty and Tyranny have no common meeting place , so protestantism and popery can not be reconciled … popery is tyrannical in every sphere of life … protestantism , at a stroke , cuts down all the shackles of superstition and priestcraft . |
| 5 | At the same time if design in both practice and theory can not be " read " as belonging to the social , the latter turns its back on it . |
| 6 | Pleasure and pain can not be seen as a lowering of tension and a heightening of tension respectively ; there can be a pleasurable heightening of tension , as in sexual activity ( a new admission compared with the position Freud took in Beyond the Pleasure Principle ) and a painful lowering of tensions . |
| 7 | Section 5 prevents this practice completely , by providing that avoidance of liability for defective goods caused by negligence of the person involved in their manufacture or distribution can not be excluded by a term or notice in a " guarantee " of goods ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption as against a person who has found the goods to be defective while he was using them , or while they were in his possession , otherwise than exclusively for the purposes of a business . |
| 8 | As he was a very intellectual artist , he was the ideal figure to take over from Metzinger the task of transmitting the principles of Cubism to the other painters ; and since he joined the group at a moment when the movement was striving for greater definition , his influence and importance can not be overestimated . |
| 9 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 10 | It is some years since it became generally if reluctantly accepted that sport and politics can not be separated . |
| 11 | ‘ Internal peace and stability can not be guaranteed by force and by denying the people a voice , ’ he said . |
| 12 | It should now be clear that Buid attitudes toward peace and violence can not be understood in terms of innate psycho-biological dispositions , or in terms of their adaptation of the natural environment . |
| 13 | Problems of concord and government can not be mastered only by simple substitution drills because they involve changes at more than one point in the sentence . |
| 14 | These processes involve cognitive as well as interactive skills and , therefore , the exercising of professional expertise and judgement can not be eradicated from the process . |
| 15 | Its comparative youthfulness and exclusiveness can not be the sole explanations . |
| 16 | If the valuation officer does not agree with the proposed change and agreement can not be reached , the matter will go to the Local Valuation and Community Charge Tribunal . |
| 17 | He 's one of the co-architects of the agreement and there is no doubt that his vision , energy , enthusiasm and dedication can not be over emphasized and is deeply appreciated by this union . |
| 18 | The importance of staff training , support and commitment can not be underestimated — neither can the need for appropriate staffing levels . |
| 19 | Moscow 's centuries-old tradition of aggression and expansionism can not be ignored . |
| 20 | It will be clear from what has been said above that the functions of Community and Union can not be kept totally separate . |
| 21 | Drawbacks : The microwave and grill can not be used simultaneously . |
| 22 | The jury may in some cases put two and two together , but it seems to us that the effect of section 58 is such that the balance of fairness between prosecution and defence can not be maintained unless proper comment is permitted on the defendant 's silence in such circumstances . |
| 23 | The capacity , in principle , of such nervous systems to demonstrate learning and memory can not be in doubt . |
| 24 | Anything more calculated to create anger and resentment can not be imagined , but worse followed . |
| 25 | Nor will it do to argue that state socialism is a perversion or corruption of some pure source , for the source has been so consistent in what it has given rise to , and so wrong in its predictions , that the suspicion of some intrinsic connection between theory and practice can not be evaded . |
| 26 | Thus theory and practice can not be separated . |
| 27 | If pure sands can be given sufficient organic matter to retain moisture and provide plant nutrients , they need no further structure as the pores between sand particles are large enough to allow drainage and sand can not be compacted into a ‘ pan ’ . |
| 28 | Usually a function word or affix can not be substituted , so substitution must be made at the slot with which the function word is more closely related , in this example the object or the verb . |
| 29 | ‘ We feel the issue of the form of state and violence can not be discussed after the setting of an election date . ’ |
| 30 | Once more , the implications of infancy for the child 's future life and happiness can not be overstated : this applies to sexual happiness no less than any other , and may well apply particularly to this area of life . |