Example sentences of "[adj] can [not/n't] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say that the French can not be trusted to maintain safety at a plant which , though on French soil , is surrounded by Belgium . |
| 2 | Such organic-rich shales are likely to constitute a much more widespread potential source for hydrocarbons — probably mainly for gas and condensate — than the coals of the deltas which are restricted to the northern part of the region , although the possibility that isolated intermontane coal basins may have developed further south in the later Carboniferous can not be excluded . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , there remains a high risk of fetal damage in offspring of women with the disease , and the possibility that the diets themselves may be harmful can not be excluded . |
| 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 | The importance of their being formed at random can not be overemphasized ; control groups start life the same as experimental groups in all respects simply by virtue of having been formed at random . |
| 6 | This can only occur if the superior initially possesses the authority to delegate , ie a subordinate can not be given organisational authority to make decisions unless it would otherwise be the superior 's right to make those decisions . |
| 7 | This is because so many instinctual demands which will later be unserviceable can not be suppressed by that rational operation of the child 's intellect but have to be tamed by acts of repression behind which , as a rule , lies the motive of anxiety . |
| 8 | Therefore , significant bleeding can not be arrested with epinephrine alone . |
| 9 | If the required standards to keep an anemone healthy can not be met it must be better to keep to captive-bred clowns and forgo the anemone . |
| 10 | Clearly the blind , the deaf and the crippled can not be expected to make do with ordinary educational provision but require specially adapted teaching methods , and in some cases peripatetic teachers if they are confined to their beds at home . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The neurotic can not be compared with a magician , for example , in a traditional society , for the latter learns his role from the culture into which he is born . |
| 13 | The question of the suspending power was more complicated , since the House of Commons had resolved in 1673 " that penal statutes in matters ecclesiastical can not be suspended but by act of Parliament " . |
| 14 | Membership — the personalities concerned , the variety of knowledge and skills available can not be changed overnight . |
| 15 | A solution might be to accept that while public policy in general can not be confined to considerations of economic efficiency , it is inappropriate for competition policy to examine wider social costs and benefits . |
| 16 | What in general can not be claimed for him is a specially high level of distinction as a designer . |
| 17 | The treasurer says cuts that big can not be done , so the Tories ' budget is in ’ latent deficit ’ and thus unlawful anyway . |
| 18 | Although Ennodius 's panegyric can not be used as absolute proof that Gregory 's chronology for Clovis 's conversion is wrong , it does suggest that there was conflict between the Franks and the Alamans shortly before 508 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Now the political can not be imposed . |
| 21 | The principle to be derived from them , in my opinion , is that payments not lawfully due can not be recovered unless they were made as a result of some improper form of pressure . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Unless the trustee allows otherwise , a proof in respect of money owed on a bill of exchange , promissory note or other negotiable instrument or security upon which the debtor is liable can not be admitted for any purpose , unless the document or a certified copy is produced ( r 6.108 ) . |