Example sentences of "[adv] can [not/n't] be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One characteristic difference between phonological and syntactic systems has far-reaching implications for the study of variation : although phonological systems change through time and so can not be absolutely closed and finite , they are more closed and finite in character than syntactic systems . |
| 2 | Witchcraft thus can not be easily applied to circumvent or violate customary norms of behaviour . |
| 3 | Projects based on religion , morals , the nature of the self and so forth can not be fully incorporated within this framework . |
| 4 | However the former economic attache for the US Embassy in Ireland , Kenneth McGuire , said that while market factors may have been important considerations for Raybestos , the relocation factor probably can not be entirely dismissed in the Raybestos case . |
| 5 | This is clearly inhumane and really can not be suitably justified . |
| 6 | We do have to be a little careful now of the evidence which Mead cited in support of her claim that both gender and adolescence are so culturally varied that they simply can not be biologically determined . |
| 7 | They therefore can not be fully understood if they are taken at face value , and an investigator must find out what social situations sustain and are reflected in them . |
| 8 | The number of modules which are offline records the number of modules which are offline and therefore can not be hard copied . |