Example sentences of "can not be [adv] [vb pp] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely , it will be said , it is necessary to draw a distinction between predicates which within a given context at a given time can be appropriately ascribed to a given existent , and those predicates which under the same conditions can not be meaningfully said that either they or their contradictories are true of the existent in question . |
| 2 | Class antagonism has undoubtedly relegated national questions far into the background , but , without the risk of lapsing into doctrinairism , it can not be categorically asserted that some particular national question can not temporarily appear in the foreground of the political drama . |
| 3 | It can not be sensibly suggested that an estate agent is contractually bound to disclose to any one of his principals information which is confidential to another of his principals . |
| 4 | Yet although it may be true that many types and styles of kung fu began here , it can not be realistically argued that all the varieties of kung fu that were and are still practised in China have their roots in Shaolin . |
| 5 | It can not be truly said that the breach goes to the root of the contract if the program has all the other usual features normally found in powerful word processing systems . |