Example sentences of "[that] [pron] can not [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Molla Gurani 's as kazasker ( an enlargement is given on p. 50 of the plates in Unver ) , for example , can not have been added before 845 , when he first came to the Ottoman lands , and was almost certainly added after 855 , when he held the kazaskerlik probably for the first and only time ( cf. below , pp. 169–71 ) , so that one can not be certain of the date when , or the circumstances in which , any of them was added . |
| 32 | Indeed John is so enthusiastic that one can not be with him without catching some of his zeal in the cause , and I can not regret our coming , though looking anxiously forward to our return . |
| 33 | He said : ‘ We have very good arguments to prove that we can not be held responsible for the actions of a few people who did not know what they were doing . |
| 34 | The plain answer is that we can not be certain about it . |
| 35 | Just because the human ear is ‘ deaf ’ to high frequency and low frequency sounds , as every scientist knows , it does not mean they do not exist , nor that we can not be affected by them . |
| 36 | This does not mean that we can not be friends with an unbeliever — obviously , we can not reach people for Christ if we insulate ourselves from non-Christian company . |
| 37 | We punish ourselves for ‘ failing ’ and believe that we can not be loved , desired or respected unless we get thin ; and punishment is also linked to profit . |
| 38 | We need to make it clear by the way we stand and hold a gaze , and by the way we speak , that we can not be so easily dismissed . |
| 39 | — From this it follows that we can not be dealing with the same concept of experience here . |
| 40 | Sinclair Hood ( 1971 , pp. 144–5 ) writes of the Temple Tomb as the only certain example of a Minoan royal tomb , but its status is so peculiar that we can not be sure who was buried there , either at the beginning or at the close of its period of use . |
| 41 | Hegel , however , argues that we can not be fully aware of ourselves , as selves , unless we are conscious of other people . |
| 42 | It seems that we can not be the fairest of them all . |
| 43 | The bullets may bounce off the sides of the slits or go plumb through the middle , so that we can not be certain of exactly where they will hit the second screen . |
| 44 | I 'm disappointed that we can not be represented , but sure you will appreciate position . |
| 45 | Where are we off to this morning then , so sunk in our own fantasies and imaginings that we can not be troubled to look out for vulnerable senior citizens , eh ? ’ |
| 46 | Should the unthinkable occur , a bottom three position , it should be remembered that we can not be relegated from the Third Division . |
| 47 | Although it is repeatedly said that at common law a man must keep his fire ‘ at his peril , ’ research shows that we can not be sure that at any period in the history of the common law a man was absolutely liable for the escape of his fire . |
| 48 | Furthermore , our data suggest that we can not be complacent about the risks of tuberculosis in the white population . |
| 49 | Is the Minister aware that last week in Brussels Madame Scrivener , the relevant Commissioner , assured me that there was no question of our being forced by the European Community to extend the coverage of VAT , and that we can not be forced so to do ? |
| 50 | If the Prime Minister is convinced that we can not be excluded from the single currency , he can not afford not to sign the treaty . |
| 51 | You will appreciate that we can not be held responsible if information material to our task is withheld or concealed from us . |
| 52 | You will appreciate that we can not be held responsible if information material to our task is withheld or concealed from us . |
| 53 | You will appreciate that we can not be held responsible if information material to our task is withheld or concealed from us . |
| 54 | You will appreciate that we can not be held responsible if information material to our task is withheld from us ] . |
| 55 | The main trouble with the scheme is that we can not be sure that an apparent X effect is not due to a differential influence of some extraneous factor(s) on the S 1 and S 2 groups . |
| 56 | Notice that , by chance , the N plots tend to be near the top ( ? dry ) end of the field and the K plots are towards the bottom ( ? wet ) end so that we can not be sure that any observed yield difference between N and K is not due to the moisture differential or to natural soil nutrients being washed by rain towards the low end of the field , etc . |
| 57 | The problem is that we can not be sure that there is no hidden cyclic variation in the list sequence that could cause bias . |
| 58 | Indeed one of my personal invariable rules is that when I have mentally decided that something can not be done , for what appears to be a very good reason , I test that apparent constraint , hopefully to destruction . |
| 59 | The first is that there can not be a ‘ gene for altruistic behaviour ’ , because such behaviour would require the action of genes at many loci , and also a host of environmental preconditions ; behaviour is a product of the whole organism , not of a single gene . |
| 60 | Lord Waddington will arrive in late summer , after the departure of his predecessor , Sir Desmond Langley — protocol decrees that there can not be two Queen 's representatives on the island at one time . |