Example sentences of "[pers pn] can not be [verb] by " in BNC.

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1 I have discharged my duty , she thought , I can not be troubled by my conscience in that respect .
2 I can not be suspected by anyone of seeking prestige , ’ he said .
3 She can not be touched by any more strangers .
4 She knows that if she uses power there is a price to pay — you can not be loved by everyone , you may stand beyond the normal bounds of acceptability .
5 Life is truly meaningless if we can not be moved by the stories of cruelty from Bosnia , of famine in Somalia and by a simple tale like that told by Father McCullagh .
6 Just because the human ear is ‘ deaf ’ to high frequency and low frequency sounds , as every scientist knows , it does not mean they do not exist , nor that we can not be affected by them .
7 Judgment against him can not be obtained by default ( Ord 12 , r 2 ) ; but , if he does not appear at the hearing of the action he is deemed to admit the notice and is bound by any judgment , even if by consent ( Ord 12 , r 3(3) ) .
8 There are even those who ask why they can not be inspected by those who advise them .
9 If there is a single currency and economies get out of line , they can not be adjusted by movements of the exchange rate , which is the normal way — so what happens ?
10 These deposits are then frozen — they can not be withdrawn by the banks .
11 PI : Locks Warranty : In addition to withdrawing keys from locks , the keys must now also be placed where they can not be seen by a would be thief .
12 keys are withdrawn from the locks fitted to the Home and placed where they can not be seen by anyone intent on making an unauthorised entry
13 keys are withdrawn from the locks fitted to the Home and placed where they can not be seen by anyone intent on making an unauthorised entry
14 They can not be manufactured by our bodies .
15 Like vitamins , they can not be manufactured by the body , so they must be provided in our daily diet .
16 Once this process is underway they can not be dislodged by flushing the uterine horns .
17 Works councils have been particularly important in securing improvements in working conditions and other non-wage elements since many of these are so specific to individual workplaces that they can not be regulated by means of a general , industry-wide agreement .
18 The first is the absence of deep gaps in barrier reefs and atolls , whereas if subsidence has been long continued , there should be deep gaps present , because once the gaps are deeper than the depth at which reef-building corals occur they can not be filled by coral growth .
19 If they can not be replaced by more adequate instruments , an electric keyboard can lie appropriate .
20 They can not be transferred by the purchaser and thus there is no secondary market and the market value of the units is determined solely by the performance of the underlying assets themselves ; the demand for the units has no effect upon their price .
21 These extra cards can only be used by that shaman — they can not be used by other shamans .
22 If they can not be protected by the law from this kind of material then the law should be tightened up .
23 If a libel is extremely serious , to the extent that a court is prepared to hold that it can not be compensated by money and deserves to be punished as a crime , its publisher may be made the target of a prosecution .
24 It can not be supported by evidence .
25 Since it can not and will not save itself , it can not be saved by anything you or I might do .
26 Stephen Taylor , the consultancy 's chairman , says : ‘ The problem with building the empowered organisation is that it can not be done by the methods of the command organisation .
27 It is only through education that any change is possible in this area ; it can not be done by force , and at one stroke , as was attempted in the French and Russian Revolutions .
28 I think so , there 's got to be one person I mean I thought about this long and hard and there 's just no way , it can not be done by committee it would not work cos then
29 Initially , then , on being approached to promote an order , it is the task of the agent to confirm that the order is in fact viable , that is to say , that the objects of the order can not be achieved without an order confirmed by parliament — that it can not be done by other means .
30 ‘ This is n't as lot of work if many people are involved , but it can not be done by just a handful . ’
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