Example sentences of "can not [be] [vb pp] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Figs Can not be Gathered from Thistles ’ : the 1920s |
| 2 | Versailles , said Ramsay MacDonald in 1919 , was ‘ a peace to end peace ’ , and ‘ figs can not be gathered from thistles . ’ |
| 3 | Mystics can not be prevented from contemplation any more than a poet can be prevented from writing poetry . |
| 4 | Because our sample consists of a cohort of individuals , calendar time effects can not be distinguished from duration effects . |
| 5 | Almost ninety years ago Stevenson 's romantic adventures were put in their place by a reviewer in the London Daily Chronicle who remarked that ‘ great literature can not be composed from narratives of perilous adventures ’ . |
| 6 | Similarly , changes in approach can not be isolated from questions of organisational development and survival and in fact may be the key to their understanding . |
| 7 | The binary policy , which is central to the history of higher education from its elaboration in the second half of the 1960s , and intimately related to the history of the CNAA 's own policies and operations , is explained by many or all of these factors , but can not be separated from perceptions of the roles and attitudes of the universities that we have previously discussed , and which were part of the decision-making environment of the mid- and late 1960s . |
| 8 | Understood in this broader sense , technological change can not be separated from market structures , patterns of competition and social regulation , and from the quality of the educational system and of the labour force . |
| 9 | Of course we can not be excluded from progress within the Community . |
| 10 | It would seem that any future developments of OPACs can not be divorced from developments in IR systems and vice versa . |
| 11 | Rather it is bound up with all life 's activities whether they be social , political or economic , and it can not be divorced from morality . |
| 12 | Religion can not be divorced from morality in his view for it is belief in an ordered moral government of the universe and when we lose our basis in morality we cease to be religious . |
| 13 | In the same way that law can not be divorced from morality neither can economics . |
| 14 | This is a further reason why the renewal of the Church can not be divorced from evangelism . |
| 15 | For myself , I remain convinced that private morality can not be divorced from public and environmental moralities and I predict that the politics of the future will have to lay greater stress on this area of life . |
| 16 | In government , in other words , ends can not be divorced from means , nor policy from management . |
| 17 | Spenser 's ideas of moral reform , therefore , can not be divorced from ideas of political and social reform within actual contemporary situations . |
| 18 | But the question that arises is whether it can be said of any morality that it can not be divorced from religion . |
| 19 | The King can not be exonerated from responsibility for the massacre ; he signed the instructions and failed to punish those who were involved . |
| 20 | Objects purchased will be issued with an automatic export licence ; normally objects dating prior to 1795 can not be exported from China . |
| 21 | HIV can not be caught from food prepared by someone who has the virus . |
| 22 | It can not be learnt from experience , and so must be something with which we are innately endowed . |
| 23 | We therefore need a new table which shows the three-way table of age by income by attitudes to the law ( figure 13.5 ) ; the relationships can not be inferred from inspection of figures 13.2 , 13.3 and 13.4 alone . |
| 24 | In other cases there are no apparent pathological attributes and no clear clinical causes so mental handicap can not be deduced from appearance or symptoms but is diagnosed gradually from performance and development in early childhood . |
| 25 | The family setting can not be omitted from considerations of sexuality any more than sexuality can be left out of ideas concerning the complicated web of interaction and relationships which comprise family life . |
| 26 | Basic information about syntactic structure can not be derived from experimentation in the absence of prior knowledge derived from observational methods . |
| 27 | In several places the author states that although molecular biology must be consistent with chemical and physical processes , biological principles can not be derived from physics and chemistry alone . |