Example sentences of "can [not/n't] be dismiss " in BNC.
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| 1 | Warnings of eco-wars and the flight of hundreds of millions of refugees can not be dismissed as fantasies : they are probabilities in situations which become more and more apparent as the century nears its end . |
| 2 | The contrast is striking , and can not be dismissed as irrelevant to the social and other problems that we confront in the last decade of our century . |
| 3 | That this is not so is very apparent from any number of reports which can not be dismissed as anecdotage . |
| 4 | The Disabled Persons Registration Act 1944 provides that a disabled person can not be dismissed ( unless there is ‘ reasonable cause ’ for so doing ) if that would reduce the number of disabled workers in the business to below the fixed quota of 3 per cent . |
| 5 | The method has all the elements of a fictional adventure story , and yet it can not be dismissed so easily . |
| 6 | Many of the boundary roads to which through traffic would be displaced are lined with housing : as Plowden comments , ‘ the environmental consequences of imposing yet heavier traffic burdens on them can not be dismissed simply by christening them ‘ arterial roads ’ or ‘ distributors ’ . ’ |
| 7 | It is not our normal view of it , but it is no less real and can not be dismissed from human experience . |
| 8 | The hypothesis can not be dismissed out of hand . |
| 9 | The importance of his distancing from earlier critical theory becomes clear ; ‘ science ’ as a form of epistemology can not be dismissed as ideology but a tendency to ‘ scientism ’ can be treated as obscuring knowledge-constitutive interests and as potentially ideological . |
| 10 | Although the research was mainly qualitative , the views can not be dismissed as merely those of a ‘ more able ’ or of an ‘ indoctrinated ’ minority . |
| 11 | Of epidemiology , Justice Shepherd said , ‘ Despite its inexactitude epidemiology is a science ’ and that ‘ epidemiological studies … can not be dismissed as ‘ nothing ’ . ’ |
| 12 | The evidence presented above does not make a strong case tor substantial changes in Britain following the episode of Magnentius , but there is a sufficient number of indicators , at least , to suggest that the proposition can not be dismissed . |
| 13 | However , the theory developed by Freud can not be dismissed because it assumes an innate mutual hostility among people . |
| 14 | This design can not be dismissed as an automatic and inevitable consequence of building cells closely together , for bumble bees also make waxen cells and theirs are irregular bag-shaped containers , jumbled untidily together . |
| 15 | Not all bishops were employed by the king and some of them had acquired their sees in the face of royal opposition ; they can not be dismissed as king 's men . |
| 16 | Whether this diagnosis is historically or sociologically true is one matter , but the relations between liberalism and racism can not be dismissed . |
| 17 | The strength or his argument is such that it can not be dismissed as merely a distortion of the formula by which ‘ capitalism , is understood as the guarantor of ‘ bourgeois freedom ’ . |
| 18 | Compulsion can not be dismissed as incapable of bringing about change , after all we compel children to attend school between the ages of five and sixteen and it would be foolish to suggest that no genuine change takes place as a result . |
| 19 | Though macrosomia can not be directly equated with morbidity , as long as maternal glycaemia during pregnancy can be shown to influence any aspect of fetal outcome the entity of gestational diabetes can not be dismissed out of hand . |
| 20 | It seems , then , that in some cases at least " exists " , or rather " actually ( or really ) exists " does have some useful work to do in a subject/predicate context and can not be dismissed out of hand as a " spurious " predicate . |
| 21 | However , since concepts , according to Frege , are essentially predicative , this automatically excludes singular existential propositions , and I have argued that such propositions can not be dismissed as " ungrammatical " . |
| 22 | ‘ Ah , no , Sir Richard may be pompous , Lady Isabella frosty , Dame Ermengilde may strike her cane on the floor in temper , but Vechey 's death can not be dismissed . |
| 23 | In general , the results that we have reported in this chapter have been favourable to the rational expectations hypothesis , suggesting at the very least that the usefulness of that hypothesis in one area of macroeconomics can not be dismissed lightly . |
| 24 | With the United States removed , at least temporarily , from the reprocessing marketplace , the possibility of the 450 spent fuel elements coming to Scotland should not and can not be dismissed . |
| 25 | Such praise , ’ he added drily , ‘ can not be dismissed lightly . ’ |
| 26 | However , they also suggest that while this study can be used to support the view that university residence tends to reduce the probability of non-completion , the possibility that the residence factor may be acting as a proxy for other university characteristics , can not be dismissed ) . |
| 27 | However , the bare infinitive is also found after how , and although this construction is far less frequent than the one with to , it can not be dismissed as nonce usage since fifteen cases have come to light thus far . |
| 28 | Adam had spoken to the Danish king Swegen Estrithsson , Cnut 's nephew , and can not be dismissed out of hand , although nor can he be regarded as infallible . |