Example sentences of "[pers pn] can not be [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | While there are a number of on-screen drawing programs which allow the creation and manipulation of an image but they can not be used to copy a picture from a sheet of paper . |
| 32 | On the other hand they can not be expected to do their job efficiently unless they have a substantial background of experience in commanding large public transport aircraft or their military equivalents . |
| 33 | They can not be expected to read every piece of intelligence that pours into Whitehall . |
| 34 | Obviously they can not be expected to vet all the publications they sell , and it would be grossly unfair to hold them responsible for libels of which they could have no knowledge . |
| 35 | But I have some sympathy for the institutions ' view that their duty is to their policyholders and they can not be expected to double up as company regulators . |
| 36 | They can not be expected to consider the inflationary consequences of their commercial activities . |
| 37 | ‘ They can not be expected to know this , given inadequate food labelling . ’ |
| 38 | But they become less and less likely to make further sacrifices , until , when they are literally on their last legs , they can not be persuaded to give up any more limbs , no matter how hard the killer grabs hold of them . |
| 39 | They can not be permitted to isolate their child and view him or her as different from other blacks ; rather they must perceive their child to be an extension of other black people . |
| 40 | This uncertainty might , on the one hand , encourage social commentators in the attitude expressed by a writer in The Economist in 1848 : ‘ In our condition suffering and evil are nature 's admonitions ; they can not be got rid of ; and the impatient attempts of benevolence to banish them from the world by legislation , before benevolence has learnt their object and their end , have always been productive of more evil than good . ’ |
| 41 | The varied articles presented introduce the reader to some of the most recent strands of linguistics and literary studies but they can not be thought to constitute a unified discipline . |
| 42 | In 1912 the same principle was reaffirmed to W. A. S. Hewins by Bonar Law , in a letter that was actually drafted for him by Steel-Maitland : " If a constituency definitely refuses to accept a candidate , even if the Central Office wish them to do so , they can not be forced to take action against their will . |
| 43 | ‘ We do not want to bypass the elected representatives , but they can not be allowed to hold up progress . |
| 44 | However , they can not be allowed to operate as completely autonomous or ad hoc bodies . |
| 45 | But since ministers , including the Prime Minister , are so fond of using statistics for the purposes of debate , they can not be allowed to make the contradictory claim that these figures are irrelevant . |
| 46 | But it is never simply a formal abstraction , for the female nude is also seen as a testimony to feelings , traces of desires which , whilst they can not be allowed to dominate , are never entirely absent . |
| 47 | A covenant may very well have reference to the land , but , unless it is reasonably incidental to the relation of landlord and tenant , it can not be said to touch and concern the land so as to be capable of running therewith or with the reversion . |
| 48 | If a country does not have control over its tax and expenditure , then it can not be said to have control over anything , since everything comes down to money in the end . |
| 49 | Ever since 1979 the Government has been trying to widen and deepen share ownership , but apart from privatisations , which have resulted in millions of people owning a few hundred shares in one or two companies , it can not be said to have had much success . |
| 50 | Because the check is a single batten , it can not be adjusted to accommodate discrepant hammer shank lengths . |
| 51 | The structure of the wheel remains alongside the north-west elevation of the mill , although the wooden paddles have entirely rotted away and it can not be made to turn ( Plate 43 ) . |
| 52 | It can not be made to stand up again . |
| 53 | Finally , if the manager were to get into financial difficulties , and his or her creditors required payment , it should be clear that no money in this account belongs to the manager , and it can not be used to settle the manager 's personal debts . |
| 54 | Locke finds the theory quite unworkable ; for example , it can not be used to justify any actual political authority , since it is impossible to show of any particular monarch that he is a genuine heir to Adam 's original authority . |
| 55 | Thus , in unregistered conveyancing unless a conveyance or other document of title is properly stamped , it can not be used to assert title to land or defend that title if attacked by others . |
| 56 | In characteristic style , Professor Tweedie is determined to stamp on loose interpretation now , before the issue gets out of hand , and is not beyond threatening to throw an encyclopaedia of rules at the profession if it can not be trusted to follow the spirit of the ASB 's principles . |
| 57 | It can not be allowed to go on , and with your help perhaps it wo n't . |
| 58 | It can not be allowed to drift into complacency . |
| 59 | That is where our freedom lies and it is that freedom which the fatwa threatens , and which it can not be allowed to destroy . ’ |
| 60 | It can not be allowed to happen . |