Example sentences of "can [not/n't] be [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , existence can not be treated simply as a property of concepts either . |
| 2 | Sadder occasions occur ambulance charters need to be carried out , typically to Southampton with a patient who can not be treated satisfactorily in the islands . |
| 3 | The McKinsey-GE matrix also recognizes that in many businesses investment decisions can not be made simply upon information about market growth and the current share held . |
| 4 | However , as the NHBC risk is limited to 10 years and faults can not be detected easily in the early stages , that assurance should surely be backed by an increase in the period of guarantee to , say ‘ 25 years . |
| 5 | It can not be supported purely on the basis of personal factors . |
| 6 | A number of such studies have shown that economic growth rates can not be explained completely by changes in capital and labour inputs . |
| 7 | This means that the high rate of schizophrenia among close relatives of an affected person can not be explained away in terms of the effects of living with someone with schizophrenia , and any unusual relationship which might have developed between them . |
| 8 | These can not be explained simply in terms of shared descent ( as they were in some multicultural accounts of ethnicity ) or a shared socio-economic location and history ( as they are in some antiracist versions of ‘ the black experience ’ ) . |
| 9 | The tragic spirit , with its joy in the annihilation of the individual , can not be explained simply in terms of the traditional principle of beauty . |
| 10 | This suggests that a fusion of languages is taking place which can not be explained simply by an appeal to the notion that speakers from time to time animate different personas , some " British " and some " Caribbean " . |
| 11 | The ease with which management could organize ‘ second unions ’ can not be explained simply by intimidation , important though that was . |
| 12 | There are large variations in the inter- and intra-national rates for this operation , which can not be explained adequately by differences in morbidity , and there is at present little professional consensus on the appropriate indications for hysterectomy . |
| 13 | For Freud , antisemitism can not be explained fully in terms of the Jews being a minority group who are disliked by the host society because they are different . |
| 14 | The device itself is very complex , and its complexity can not be explained only by invoking communicative function ( see Newmeyer 1983 ) . |
| 15 | In the past decade , some CF centres have reported increased isolations of P cepacia that can not be explained only by improved laboratory proficiency in culture and identification . |
| 16 | But whereas such poems are rare in earlier periods , in twelfth-century Europe they multiply so explosively that the phenomenon can not be explained merely as the reflection of a greater number of extant manuscripts . |
| 17 | This increased temperature dependence can not be explained merely by additional carbon conduction , as graphite conduction is nearly independent of temperature . |
| 18 | The world has always looked to Britain for stability , inventiveness and general mental agility , yet our National Prestige is low , our currency is less than one third of its immediate post-war value against the dollar and can not be explained entirely as a result of market speculation . |
| 19 | But heightened sensitivity on this point can not be explained entirely in terms of the need to tighten ‘ social control ’ at a time of rapid economic change . |
| 20 | The contrast can not be explained entirely in terms of personalities ; nevertheless the characters of the rulers concerned were of great importance in this connexion . |
| 21 | The presence or absence of reefs can not be explained solely in terms of temperature and turbidity , for , although reefs are absent from cold current shorelines , such as the west coast of South America , they do not occur even where the temperatures are high enough for coral in this region . |
| 22 | But all of these developments can not be explained solely by reference to what goes on inside ‘ Fleet Street ’ . |
| 23 | If the new liberals have their way , the law can not be credited even with such a modest achievement . |
| 24 | These types of questions can not be answered easily by looking at a conventional map . |
| 25 | The substantive limits which the courts ought to be imposing on the exercise of discretion is a complex question which can not be answered merely by dwelling upon individual cases . |
| 26 | A third question — what impact is the new law having on economic change ? — can not be answered satisfactorily at this early stage . |
| 27 | There is no reason why the methods outlined here can not be applied successfully to other basins . |
| 28 | This can not be applied directly in international law , for treaties can be amended by the parties ' unanimous agreement , and there is no over-riding regulation of international organisations . |
| 29 | Although , in its pure form , the bureaucracy concept can not be applied fully to schools , it has been suggested that bureaucratisation is one of the most significant educational developments of the times . |
| 30 | It is often advisable to use the commercially prepared seasonings for tacos and chilli as many of the varieties of red and chilli peppers that are abundant in Mexico can not be obtained easily in other countries . |