Example sentences of "[noun] can not [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contrast between self-criticism in science and an uncritical spirit in religion can not be made absolute . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The same does not apply to the view that religion can not be divorced from a form of morality . |
| 4 | Some words can not be pronounced at all until their meaning has been recognised . |
| 5 | the comprehension of speech is severely impaired ; sometimes even single spoken words can not be understood even though they are correctly perceived . |
| 6 | Secondly , if the joke is so successful that it gets a lot of laughter you do not want to rush on so fast that your next words can not be heard . |
| 7 | New words can not be added to this class — hence its name . |
| 8 | The child 's doing , the child 's active social experience and his own thinking and talking are the chief means of his education … words can not be substituted for things . |
| 9 | The educational needs of people engaged in rural development action can not be met by present provisions . |
| 10 | However , the nature of the state 's action can not be understood solely by reference to what happens outside the state . |
| 11 | It follows that , if what is being sought in this action against the third , fourth and fifth defendants is compensation for the loss suffered by the investors arising out of their purchases of or subscription for Euramco shares , the action can not be sustained . |
| 12 | As a consequence , they dislike having to attend incidents at this time which are so serious that action can not be avoided . |
| 13 | It is not the same sort of task as that of the natural scientist in search of hidden causes , because the context of action can not be divorced from the actors ' understanding of the context . |
| 14 | This means that an action can not be founded on a bad cause . |
| 15 | In an economy as complicated as ours , action can not be taken very quickly , and any change in our national taxation system would take years to complete . |
| 16 | This action can not be interpreted as an inhibition by stauro sporine of negative modulation of the histamine H 2 receptor by a basal activity of protein kinase C because similar effects were found with gastric inhibitory polypeptide , the action of which was not inhibited by activation of protein kinase C. Finally 1-oleoyl-2-acetyl-glycerol , a diacylglycerol analogue which activates protein kinase C in intact cells , inhibited histamine stimulation of cyclic AMP content in HGT-1 cells at a concentration at which it inhibited histamine stimulated aminopyrine accumulation in partietal cells . |
| 17 | From this point of view , societal characteristics can not be explained as the product of actors ' choices , since these choices are themselves the product of socialisation . |
| 18 | However , the causal influence of such characteristics can not be considered by itself , and must be investigated in the context of particular societies . |
| 19 | But he warns that the ideas of civil association and enterprise association can not be understood as complementary characteristics ; they each stand for an independent , self-sustaining mode of association . |
| 20 | The tendency of the mind to move from one thing to another has to consist in the straightforward fact that one thing usually follows , or is caused by , the other ; the tendency or association can not be thought of as some experienced feature of the situation without reviving the original situation of having an unanalysed conception of the mind 's ability to reach out and apprehend things . |
| 21 | In the Brechtian aesthetic , the real struggles of life and oppressed peoples can not be shown , as it were , naturally . |
| 22 | Likewise they implicitly assume that over the medium-term ( 3-10 years ) , the supply side can not be assumed to be constant . |
| 23 | Whatever the case , the number one lesson to learn is that a horse can not be prevented from pulling by merely pulling back at him . |
| 24 | As with any evasion , the horse can not be expected to know that he is not supposed to do it . |
| 25 | ‘ If there is chaos , the process of renewal can not be continued , ’ Mr Wolfgang Meyer , the government spokesman , said . |
| 26 | However , the abolition of unfree labour can not be analysed simply in terms of economic calculation . |
| 27 | The reality that there are rights of ownership and that they are liable to , and do , conflict with those of labour can not be exorcised by pretending that they are not there ; and it is the exclusion of the public sector from the Committee 's purview which admits that reality . |
| 28 | The struggle to end capitalist wage labour can not be helped by women opting out and can only be undertaken by a working class that is less divided by male domination than the present one . |
| 29 | It is true that on defence Labour can not be trusted . |
| 30 | The Tories say Labour can not be trusted to form the next Government . |