Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] can [not/n't] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Derek Bond ( Guardian 22.8.89 ) , assistant general secretary of the sea officers union UMAST , pointed out that adequate rest periods for crews is a mere recommendation which can not be enforced . |
| 2 | ( ii ) an anomaly which can not be removed by replacing one or more open set items , but can be removed by changing one or more closed set items , is purely grammatical ; |
| 3 | From an animal welfare point of view the chasing of a fox or a deer round the countryside with dogs and followed by men either on foot or mounted on horses is a cruel practice which can not be justified . |
| 4 | Fifthly , the production and determination of ideology is mediated through human practice which can not be reduced solely to the reproduction of material relations . |
| 5 | However , it may also be that if the clause is drawn so widely as to be capable of applying in unreasonable circumstances , or if it purports to exclude a liability which can not be excluded under the Act , the court may find it unreasonable to apply it to other circumstances ( see Walker v Boyle [ 1982 ] 1 All ER 634 ) . |
| 6 | This idea can now be refined through Bourdieu 's concept of habitus , in which the social group 's perspective upon some form is always predicated upon the historical construction of its dispositions , interaction being a conjunc-ture which can not be reduced merely to its immediate context ( Bourdieu 1977 : 81 ) . |
| 7 | It is precisely this weighting which can not be observed for art works . |
| 8 | However , what appears to be competition/soliciting which can not be restrained without an express clause frequently amounts to a breach of the duty of fidelity . |
| 9 | It has a unique function which can not be commanded , it simply happens automatically once per day for the character carrying the book as soon as that character suffers any lost Wounds from a melee or missile attack . |
| 10 | The significance of the TDA 1968 is that it applies , in auction situations , strict liability to a false trade description which can not be excluded by a disclaimer even though , as a matter of civil law , such an exclusion clause could satisfy the reasonableness test under UCTA 1977 ( see Derbyshire County Council v Vincent ( 1990 ) The Times , 19 June ) . |
| 11 | Should they turn out to be insurmountable then the decision is classified as " a good decision which can not be carried through " . |
| 12 | There are also important areas of knowledge and skill which can not be described with any precision either because of their nature ( e.g. " understanding " ) or because not enough is yet known about the factors causing difficulty to pupils . |
| 13 | Therefore there is clearly some on-going benefit from such a campaign which can not be measured by the number of enquiries received . |
| 14 | In adjudicating , a meaning is attributed to a rule of law which can not be said to be correct or incorrect . |
| 15 | holds a qualification in hotel and catering management which can not be accepted for complete exemption from the Association 's education criteria . |
| 16 | Accordingly , fixtures such as office partitioning which can not be removed without destroying the partitions will be a landlord 's fixture rather than a tenant 's fixture . |
| 17 | The first part of this is a more general political question which can not be covered fully in an economics text . |
| 18 | The substantive limits which the courts ought to be imposing on the exercise of discretion is a complex question which can not be answered merely by dwelling upon individual cases . |
| 19 | Whether this conflict , analogous to the class struggles in capitalist societies , is related to some structural contradiction which would exist in any form of socialist society is a much larger question which can not be pursued here . |
| 20 | The sentence comes from an essay called Eztetyke du Rêve , an eccentric spelling of Esthétique du Rêve ( ‘ Aesthetic of the Dream' ) in which , building on the idea that ‘ the dream is the only right which can not be forbidden ’ , Glauber Rocha described how he had come to realise the revolutionary importance of the mystical in Latin American popular culture . |
| 21 | The realisation that we teach children more effectively if we understand them fully and set them against the social and cultural conditions in which they live and grow , places an expectation upon the teacher which can not be prescribed by contract . |
| 22 | Executorships , of course , are appointments of a personal nature which can not be transferred ; and in the case of trustee appointments not even the consent of all co-trustees and adult beneficiaries could compel ( though such combination ought in most cases to be regarded as persuasive ) an unwilling trustee to retire in favour of a new appointee . |
| 23 | This suggests that a fusion of languages is taking place which can not be explained simply by an appeal to the notion that speakers from time to time animate different personas , some " British " and some " Caribbean " . |
| 24 | those which employ a method or means of combat which can not be directed at a specific military objective ; or |
| 25 | If you have dropped the computer , maybe only a few inches , and the failures started after this , then give your local repair man a ring for a quotation without delay or you could write a file to the disk which can not be read back by another machine , or your own for that matter , when the heads have been realigned to their correct setting . |
| 26 | A council spokeswoman said : ‘ There is an ongoing investigation which can not be resolved until the mother returns and can be interviewed by both social services and the police . ’ |
| 27 | A council spokeswoman said : ‘ There is an ongoing investigation which can not be resolved until the mother returns and can be interviewed by both social services and the police . ’ |
| 28 | ESs are increasingly being used to model knowledge which can not be represented by conventional programming ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 29 | But the above passage constitutes , in my judgment , an approach to the exercise of discretion which can not be faulted . |
| 30 | Changes in output which can not be accounted for by changes in the input of capital and labour are assumed to be accounted for by autonomous shocks in technology . |