Example sentences of "[noun] can [not/n't] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These words can not in any way be regarded as precatory of the trustee . |
| 2 | ‘ Such action can not in any way help the fishermen 's cause . ’ |
| 3 | If one accepts the golden rule , this involves rejecting Lord Diplock 's opinion that the inexpediency , injustice or immorality of the proposed application of the statute can not in itself be a reason for finding an ambiguity in the statute . |
| 4 | John Searle is not represented directly , but the Churchlands challenge his cat-among-the pigeons argument , purporting to show that computers can not in principle ever understand , though they can handle effectively symbols or tokens . |
| 5 | As Lord Wilberforce said in Suisse Atlantique : One may safely say that the parties can not in a contract have contemplated that the clause should have so wide an ambit as in effect to deprive one party 's stipulations of all contractual force : to do so would be to reduce the contract to a mere declaration of intent . |
| 6 | He states : ‘ What Hale is saying is that for the purpose of the law of rape the consent given at the time of the marriage ceremony can not in law be revoked . ’ |
| 7 | And apologists for Labour 's refusal to organise in Northern Ireland can not in all conscience describe themselves as democrats . |
| 8 | In Coke , Littleton 212b. , Lord Coke says : ‘ where the condition is for payment of £20 , the obligor or feoffor can not at the time appointed pay a lesser sum in satisfaction of the whole , because it is apparent that a lesser sum of money can not be a satisfaction of a greater … |
| 9 | This agreement expresses an understanding and commitment between the two governments which under existing law can not of itself have any internal legal effect . |
| 10 | By its very nature , faith rests and must rest in a ‘ storm-free territory ’ which mere historical consideration and reconsideration can not in any way disturb . |
| 11 | The truth of the matter is , I am sure , that the so-called " fusion " of law and equity was a procedural matter and ( save incidentally and because procedural matters can not under our system sensibly be divorced from substantive law ) the function of equity in relation to the common law was not thereby changed . |
| 12 | But a regular inspection every four or five years can not by itself be sufficient protection for the parents or the children ; nor can it provide enough information by which to judge the effectiveness of a school . |
| 13 | But reasons of identification and self-definition can not by themselves establish the legitimacy of an authority . |
| 14 | Whether or not that is right , and it need not be decided in this case , a registered disposition made by the fraudster to a bona fide purchaser can not in my judgment be removed from the register under paragraph ( d ) . |
| 15 | And I think that the alternative of the new settlement is by far the best solution , provided it is mixed with some peripheral development , one ca n't go into a position where there is all peripheral development or all new settlement , it has to be in perfect balance , because some needs can not of course be met by the new settlement . |
| 16 | The capture of inert gases from the PFM can not by any plausible means lead to this discrepancy and therefore this is ruled out as the major mechanism by which these planets acquired these inert gases . |
| 17 | This is not to say that particulars can not under any circumstances be contextually individuated via " impersonal " descriptions . |
| 18 | This rule that someone without title can not without authority transfer title , is illustrated by the decision in Greenwood v. Bennett ( 1972 C.A. ) . |
| 19 | A person can not by reference to any contract terms or to a notice given to persons generally or to particular persons exclude or restrict his liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence . |
| 20 | A person can not by reference to any contract terms or to a notice given to persons generally or to particular persons exclude or restrict his liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence . |
| 21 | An industrial revival can not for long remain based on mules and donkeys . |
| 22 | It was submitted on behalf of Mr Street that the court can not in these circumstances decide that the agreement created a tenancy without interfering with the freedom of contract enjoyed by both parties . |
| 23 | Where a party to a contract deals as consumer or on the other 's written standard terms of business ( McCrone v Boots Farm Sales Ltd 1981 SLT 103 ) that other can not by reference to a contract term limit , exclude or restrict his liability ( ss3 , 13(1) of UCTA 1977 ) , and this applies to terms and notices ( s13(2) of UCTA 1977 ) . |
| 24 | First , if holism and individualism are to be distinct , causation and autonomy must be mutually exclusive categories : if the autonomous character of action is to stand in the way of the truth of determinism , actions can not at the same time be caused . |
| 25 | However , X can not without the seller 's consent assign his burdens under the contract ( i.e. the obligation to pay ) . |
| 26 | Night netting is by far the most successful aspect of all long-netting , but that does not mean that rabbits can not in some circumstances be netted in broad daylight . |
| 27 | Wood which concluded : ‘ The non-treaty Nez Perces can not in law be regarded as bound by the treaty of 1863 ; and in so far as it attempts to deprive them of a right to occupancy on any land its provisions are null and void . ’ |
| 28 | And this is something which computer analysis of a corpus can not of course determine . |
| 29 | Perhaps Spinoza could have strengthened it in various ways , by saying that people can not on odd occasions deliberately act out of the character they try to give their lives , without destroying that character , and that for the rational person the character of a life which includes good relations with other people at large is essential for personal fulfilment . |
| 30 | Rhee hoped the United States and Britain would recognise his provisional government ; a British Foreign Office minute from March 1945 reads , ‘ These people can not in any true sense be said to represent Korea and Anglo-US recognition of them might well lead to those [ problems ] we have experienced over the ‘ London Poles ’ . |