Example sentences of "[pers pn] can not be [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother has been told that she can not be cured in this country , so with family and friends she 's launched an appeal to try to raise thousands of pounds to take Natalie to the Hoxey Clinic in Mexico City for specialist herbal treatment . |
| 2 | The giant who knows she can not be helped in any way . |
| 3 | The essence of a club is that it is select and private ; you can not be followed in there . |
| 4 | Although every parent has the right in the fullness of time to decide whether he or she feels they can cope with their child , they can not be placed in a position of absolute power over its life if they have an extremely misleading impression of the form that that child 's life might take . |
| 5 | They can not be fixed in advance but are conditional on context because they relate not to sentences but to utterances . |
| 6 | Since they can not be planned in terms of the students ' likely destinations , they must have some other kind of rationale or logic . |
| 7 | The different aspects of the Christian faith can be distinguished for the sake of clarity but they can not be separated in the life of the Christian community as if any one of them could exist alone or have priority over the others |
| 8 | These features are just as important to efficient performance as are data about plant functions but they can not be incorporated in a man-machine allocation process . |
| 9 | These achievements can be demonstrated in the remoter areas , with all their current problems , in fact , because of their current problems , in a manner in which they can not be demonstrated in the great centres of industrial and political power . |
| 10 | If they can not be stopped in time , mankind will surely be doomed . |
| 11 | In the new Act the positive role of relatives and friends is also recognised , but it must be obvious to everyone that some children are just so difficult , often having been very badly abused , and with severe behaviour problems , that they can not be contained in a family and these children are placed in residential homes . |
| 12 | They can not be attacked in hand-to-hand combat either — the only way to destroy a Fanatic is to shoot him or to wait and let him collapse from exhaustion . |
| 13 | They can not be distilled in pure form . |
| 14 | The main limitations to the use of Pitot tubes are their size and the slowness of their response ; they can not be used in flows of very small length scale , nor to measure rapid velocity fluctuations . |
| 15 | This does not mean that they can not be found in the world ; a child may wonder what shape or arrangement a triangle is , and have it pointed out to him . |
| 16 | Howard has now become scrupulous about washing his socks in fairly hot soapy water ( they can not be washed in extremely hot water because he favours woollen socks , though cotton would be preferable ) and regularly airing his boots . |
| 17 | In turn , the problems and difficulties themselves are thought to be irremediable ( Hargreaves 1975 , Leach 1977 ) , in the sense that they can not be resolved in the usual school or classroom context . |
| 18 | It can not be achieved in practice . |
| 19 | However , although it can not be achieved in practice , the concept of an isolated system il important in estimating the maximum theoretical energy differences between a system and surroundings . |
| 20 | It can not be recalled in any coherent form . |
| 21 | It can not be given in consideration of any sum under £30 . |
| 22 | But the scale of recruitment to the revolutionary underground suggests that it can not be explained in terms of individual maladjustment . |
| 23 | If Hume 's argument proves anything , it is just this : that the assumption of identity can not be explained in terms of the conditions under which the empirical things of the common sense world are re-identified ; in particular , it can not be explained in terms of similarities between perceptions and ideas . |
| 24 | Detailed data takes up space so it can not be presented in a volume of this scale , yet without it much of the theorizing of social anthropologists seems trivial and obvious or merely boastful . |
| 25 | It can not be broken in hand-to-hand combat and is immune to the effects of psychology . |
| 26 | It can not be broken in hand-to-hand combat and is immune to the effects of psychology . |
| 27 | It can not be recorded in written form elsewhere , however ; the understanding is intuitive . |
| 28 | But feeling does not evaporate : if it can not be shown in one form it finds an outlet in another . |
| 29 | Whether a contract is of a standard type or a ‘ one-off ’ , it must contain certain elements , otherwise it can not be enforced in the courts . |
| 30 | Gandhi claims that it can not be used in an unjust cause but what he might mean is that it should not be used in an unjust cause . |