Example sentences of "that it can not [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The disadvantage of rope or parafil is that it can not be retrieved at high speed without the friction overheating and burning the material . |
| 2 | Mr Clarke , speaking on ITN 's News At Ten last night , tried to limit the damage from the disclosure , saying : ‘ All ministers , including David Trippier , agree with me that it can not be right that National Health Service pay can be determined by industrial action of this kind taken by militant trade unions . |
| 3 | For no matter how much it is objected that it can not be stated definitely from these considerations just what the thing is like according to its nature , but only what it is like in respect to one thing or to another , it may still be said what there is in it which makes it appear to be this in respect to one thing and that in respect to another ; and consequently it may be said both to be one thing according to its nature and to be this or that in respect to other things . |
| 4 | In fact people will often say that it can not be true because they would undoubtedly have known if it was going to happen . |
| 5 | No dose of a highly potentized remedy can be too small that it can not be stronger than the natural disease , that it can not at least partially overcome it and that it can not start the process of cure . |
| 6 | The small surplus that is distributed is so limited that it can not be shared by all , but patronage is a mechanism of selecting a few workers to benefit . |
| 7 | The construction does not , I think , accomplish this , and there are reasons to believe that it can not be successfully carried out . |
| 8 | Yet one understands and sympathizes with the reader who urges for that word to be said ( even as he/she understands that it can not be ) , and no amount of earnest preaching that this is the way things are , that no certainties can be reached , will attenuate the sense of frustration that accompanies our contemplation of the ruins . |
| 9 | It is perhaps as well that the British Library does not concern itself with such phenomena , but the absence of the raw material means , again , that it can not be studied properly at what is the centre of literary culture par excellence . |
| 10 | ‘ And the poor thing so badly trained that it can not be brought into a Christian household . ’ |
| 11 | Those opposed to the ordination of women to the priesthood maintain that it can not be seen as a legitimate development because it is ‘ closely related to the central doctrines of the Christian faith ’ . |
| 12 | Note that it can not be formulated as ‘ always calculate proportions along the rows ’ ; this would only work if the explanatory variable was always put in the rows , and no such convention has been established . |
| 13 | The only disadvantage of the method is that it can not be used for certain solvents , such as alcohol , which do n't appear to be absorbed by Tenax . |
| 14 | For instance the report argues that the actual overcrowding and potential greater overcrowding at the school is not so great that it can not be met with temporary classrooms and eventually new extensions to the school ( DDP : 11–12 ) . |
| 15 | Gandhi claims that it can not be used in an unjust cause but what he might mean is that it should not be used in an unjust cause . |
| 16 | But the question that arises is whether it can be said of any morality that it can not be divorced from religion . |
| 17 | It also anticipates Marx-ism , Freudianism and modern free-market capitalism in its insistence that it can not be criticised because there is no position outside from which to criticise it . |
| 18 | The point is that it can not be presumed to be , without careful enquiry into the whole range of factors that bear upon educational decisions . |
| 19 | But the point about the evaluation of materials is that it can not be carried out in dissociation from the contexts of particular classrooms : it must be part of the process of self-monitoring mediation that I am advocating here . |
| 20 | Stephen Taylor , the consultancy 's chairman , says : ‘ The problem with building the empowered organisation is that it can not be done by the methods of the command organisation . |
| 21 | ‘ Alas that it can not be , nephew ! ’ |
| 22 | At certain points within the pattern , all six colours are used within one row , so this means that it can not be knitted with any of the normal multi-colour knitting techniques , automatically . |
| 23 | The danger in exclusively privileging the socio-cultural context in the interpretation of human institutions and behaviour is that every social phenomenon becomes so context-dependent that it can not be translated across cultures . |
| 24 | If you choose a ball , however , be sure that it is large enough so that it can not be swallowed . |
| 25 | It appears that it can not be resolved satisfactorily without reducing publicly provided services or benefits to other sections of the population . |
| 26 | It might seem as though the hypothesis is so slippery that it can not be falsified . |
| 27 | But as we have just seen , Strawson gives us reason to think that it can not be explicable in just this sense , and he is therefore mistaken in concluding that a holist theory would involve us in responding objectively to all actions . |
| 28 | But the double oxymoron in line 13 suggests that they are already foes , that the poem has either been written to try and restore a lost harmony , or to draw attention to the fact that it can not be restored . |
| 29 | Finding no answers , partly because they do not spend much time looking for them , they assume that it can not be true ; the differences must be ‘ sufficiently deep and of sufficient significance to warrant , at least in a literate society , the continued emphasis on schooling and the acquisition of literacy ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 30 | In a liberal society we assume that it can not be objectively defined . |