Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pron] can [not/n't] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since there is only one cycle created when I to J is added there will be no cycles left after the edge p to q is dropped and so there can not be more than one path from i to l for any i . |
| 2 | However , the coefficients of this model are unknown , and so it can not be used in the empirical investigation of the risk premium . |
| 3 | ’ — And so it can not be allowed to occur . |
| 4 | This broad sense should include the ironic , metaphoric and implicit communicative content of an utterance , and so it can not be restricted to the conventional content of what is said . |
| 5 | It presents , quite objectively , a vast amount of data drawn from official Government sources and elsewhere which can not be feasibly challenged by Mr Fallon or anyone else . |
| 6 | The method has all the elements of a fictional adventure story , and yet it can not be dismissed so easily . |
| 7 | On this claim rests his whole theory of mental language , and yet it can not be true for , if it were , there would be no serious portability of software , as between , say , machines of radically different architectures . |
| 8 | Associated with this view is the general contention that services are consumed at the time they are produced , and therefore they can not be stored , transported or resold . |
| 9 | It does not assume any proof demonstrating its validity , and therefore it can not be knocked down for not offering it . |
| 10 | But now we can not be so saved . |
| 11 | No councillor can insist on serving on any particular committee , but equally he can not be compelled to serve on a committee against his wish . |
| 12 | But surely they can not be wrong ! |
| 13 | As has been said , technically , it need not be raised in disagreeing with Ormrod J. , but surely it can not be avoided . |
| 14 | They can be basted more easily directly along the front edge of the board with steel tacks , provided the tacks are covered with braid , but then it can not be removed . |
| 15 | Again this hope seems set against the tides of history , but again we can not be certain that a positive policy of Empire and tariffs could not have turned back the tide in 1902 or 1912 . |