Example sentences of "[coord] its [noun sg] can not [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , for the Formalists , ‘ literary language ’ … and its development can not be understood as a planned development of tradition , but rather as colossal displacements of traditions ’ ( Tynyanov 1978c : p. 144 , my italics ) . |
| 2 | Thus it is an open system rather than a closed one and its behaviour can not be understood by simply looking at the relationship between inputs and outputs . |
| 3 | The device itself is very complex , and its complexity can not be explained only by invoking communicative function ( see Newmeyer 1983 ) . |
| 4 | The fact that the " adornment " theory was entertained for so long deserves some explanation and its appropriateness can not be altogether dismissed in the case of " artificial " styles cultivated by such Renaissance mannerists as Sidney and Lyly . |
| 5 | This somewhat schematic listing will serve to illustrate that sexual behaviour and its regulation can not be reduced to a simple explanatory factor ; nor can there be a simple , straightforward history . |
| 6 | This is now the nearest railway to Bishop 's Castle and Clun , but its future can not be assumed . |
| 7 | The Scarman Report formed a part — and a vital one — of this process of political debate , but its role can not be understood in isolation . |
| 8 | A particular lexical unit , of course , expresses its semantic identity through such relations , but its essence can not be exhaustively characterised in terms of any determinate set of such relations . |