Example sentences of "[verb] it can [not/n't] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The offer would seem at first sight to be an extremely generous one , but those who make it know it can not be accepted . |
| 2 | ‘ While people are cautious about a lot of developments in Europe , rightly so , and while they are looking for British advantage , rightly so , they realise it can not be done from the back of the class . |
| 3 | There may be restrictions on the type of instruction which can be executed in this way ; for example , in the IBM 370 range it can not be another execute . |
| 4 | Aleks ( Russia ) , a Moscow-based security company , is marketing a computer database of business partners to avoid : rather suspiciously launched on April 1 , the service — Conduit — has information on what it calls ‘ untrustworthy commercial partners ’ and the database is apparently updated by aggrieved entrepreneurs and firms that have been victims of fraud or deceit and are seeking redress ( or revenge ) — canny Aleks says it can not be responsible for the data contained on the database ; users must pay 5,000 roubles as an initial fee , plus another 100 roubles a month and 20 roubles for each reference . |
| 5 | The child 's cognisant acts have the character of perceptions : if an act is done it can not be undone ( ‘ reversed ’ in the jargon ) and so there is no going back and taking another perspective on the question or practical problem . |
| 6 | If jade is not polished it can not be made worth anything . |
| 7 | I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea . |
| 8 | But we know it can not be quite right because it does n't incorporate the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics . |
| 9 | Amateur theatre flourishes almost everywhere , and when you 're beginning it can not be stressed too strongly that it is desirable to obtain some actual stage experience before jumping into the big pool of drama school , or even summer school . |
| 10 | ‘ After anxious consideration I have reached the conclusion that whatever Reg. v. Morris did decide it can not be regarded as having overruled the very plain decision in Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 that appropriation can occur even if the owner consents and that Reg. v. Morris itself makes it plain that it is no defence to say that the property passed under a voidable contract . |
| 11 | ( f ) Parker LJ stated : " whatever R v Morris did decide it can not be regarded as having overruled the very plain decision in Lawrence 's case that appropriation can occur even if the owner consents and … |
| 12 | Unlike the other tricks it can not be picked up quickly . |
| 13 | She obviously feels it can not be resolved without going to court . ’ |
| 14 | A voice message on a cassette with no context to support it can not be complete as a record . |
| 15 | In order to use the monitor however , the speaker must have sufficient time to mentally prepare the utterance ( usually this means it can not be used in conversation ) , must be concentrating on the form of the message itself and must have complete knowledge of the rule , or rules , which have to be brought into use . |
| 16 | A secret postal ballot of parents then determines the fate of the school , and once a decision to opt out of local authority control has been taken it can not be reversed at a later date , although there is , of course , nothing to stop a new government introducing a legislation to repeal this provision . |
| 17 | The most common reaction when hearing of the sudden death of a relative or friend is to say it can not be true ! |
| 18 | His dream is only an illusion and he knows it can not be realised . |