Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] can [not/n't] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | From this the inference is drawn that what he thus knows can not be physical states , or explicable in terms of such states , for physical states are necessarily publicly accessible . |
| 2 | " Freedom once given can not be taken away . |
| 3 | Nothing an animal ever does can not be explained , given sufficient patience and ingenuity on the part of the animal-watcher . |
| 4 | The fill story of how this attitude has gradually changed can not be told here . |
| 5 | Possibly more troublesome and dangerous are micro-organisms which can be used in agricultural and medical applications but once released can not be recaptured . |
| 6 | Siegel ( 1972 ) reports that pre-exposure to a tone in rabbits leads to a loss of the OR ( evident as a decline in the likelihood of occurrence of an eye-opening response evoked by the novel tone ) but the latent inhibition that was also found can not be directly attributed to the loss of this aspect of the OR . |
| 7 | The equally conservative nobles of Smolensk echoed Tula 's belief in the need for joint discussions with " representatives from other provinces ' , while the nobles of Tver " , one of the few gentry groups to espouse the cause of immediate emancipation rather than the conversion of serfs into temporarily obligated peasants , argued that the new laws had been botched , that " the reforms so urgently required can not be achieved by a bureaucratic order " , and that the " convocation of elected representatives from all the Russian land represents the only means for a satisfactory solution " . |
| 8 | A hire-purchase agreement which is not properly executed can not be enforced by the sellers ' recapturing the item but only by a court order . |
| 9 | Yet we suffer ever-growing road congestion , the amelioration of which most thinking people now agree can not be achieved merely by building more roads . |
| 10 | That subletting was widely practised can not be doubted , for not only in the cases examined was the number of proven freeholds relatively small , but , even in regions where they were most numerous they still formed a minority of all holdings . |
| 11 | People who are mentally handicapped can not be expected to cope with many aspects of this AL independently . |