Example sentences of "can not [be] [verb] [adv prt] of " in BNC.

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1 It can not be made up of a wave with a unique value for its wavelength since such a wave stretches on for ever .
2 This is essential if high levels are used , and the excess can not be ducted out of the room .
3 Unlike a lead tingle fixing , the Sim-Fix can not be pushed out of place by snow slippage .
4 More fundamentally , the decision in Katsikas raises the issue of whether the employee can most effectively be safeguarded by legal provisions which are mandatory and so can not be contracted out of or whether the law must respect the employee 's freedom to choose .
5 This provision can not be contracted out of .
6 But always the Castle has reappeared , a tumour that can not be cut out of the landscape .
7 Because energy can not be created out of nothing , one of the partners in a particle/antiparticle pair will have positive energy , and the other partner negative energy .
8 The hypothesis can not be dismissed out of hand .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 A dividend can not be paid out of a subsidiary 's pre-acquisition profits if this reduces the carrying value of a holding company 's investment in that subsidiary .
13 If the money can clearly be proven to belong to you all , and to be your only means of support , it can not be let out of the family , casually , at the whim of one member .
14 He can not be let out of jail after 25 years .
15 This kind of conflict can not be legislated out of existence .
16 Britain can not be thrown out of the EC , but if it fails to pass the bill it would be left behind as the others speed towards greater political and economic unity .
17 An opinion can not be conjured out of thin air — it must be based on something .
18 The power to order rectification must , therefore , be found within one or other of the subsection ( 1 ) paragraphs and can not be spelled out of the words ‘ may be rectified . ’
19 A ward of court can not be taken out of the jurisdiction of the court , nor can any change be made in his or her position in life , without leave of the court .
20 Many of these differentiating characteristics are closely linked to personality and can not be homogenized out of existence , although their significance as factors fragmenting proletarian unity can vary widely .
21 Similarly , the recognition that what is said about Jesus in the New Testament is the expression of faith in him , and that this side of the matter , though not the only one , can not be left out of account , has also become a basic axiom of much modern New Testament study .
22 While in this survey we are chiefly concerned with modern Protestant theology , and with its main development in the west , the impact upon it of this new ecumenical awareness can not be left out of account .
23 The civil law applies directly only to Israel as a nation and can not be lifted out of its context , though many of the principles it embodies are still highly relevant to modern society .
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