Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] can [not/n't] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wasteful and destructive life-styles of the rich can not be maintained at the cost of the lives and livelihood of the poor , and of nature . |
| 2 | In reviewing the central site , consideration has been given primarily to the needs of History and of English in so far as the needs of the latter can not be satisfied on the St Cross site . |
| 3 | In the explanation of landforms found in deserts , the possibility of valley formation by streams in the more humid parts of the Pleistocene can not be ignored , as will be seen in the following chapter . |
| 4 | They concluded that the mother 's diet ‘ may influence the likelihood of infantile colic in breast-fed children , but that the source of the colic can not be attributed to a single dietary component [ ie milk ] . |
| 5 | But though this was so , Lord Coke reports that it was resolved by the whole Court of Common Pleas ‘ that payment of a lesser sum on the day in satisfaction of a greater can not be any satisfaction for the whole , because it appears to the judges that by no possibility a lesser sum can be satisfaction to the plaintiff for a greater sum : but the gift of a horse , hawk , or robe , etc. , in satisfaction is good for it shall be intended that a horse , hawk , or robe , etc. , might be more beneficial to the plaintiff than the money , in respect of some circumstance , or otherwise the plaintiff would not have accepted it in satisfaction . |
| 6 | An exactly analogous state of affairs occurs in the use of the Debye model in dielectric theory ( see , for example , Frölich ( 1958 ) or Daniel ( 1967 ) ) where the behaviour of a dielectric can not be represented exactly by a single relaxation time model . |