Example sentences of "can not [pron] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ca n't something be done ? ’ |
| 2 | I very clearly remember being at the records panel when I er er first arrived , and seeing erm Mr reaction when it was a a member of the party to my right which re , said well , as we have financial problems and as , as we have these documents , why ca n't they be photocopied and we 'll sell sell them off . |
| 3 | Why ca n't they be contented with what they 've got ? |
| 4 | Well , ca n't he be moved into a different class ? |
| 5 | And my grandfather , who used to weep over the ‘ Second Connecticut March ’ , why ca n't he be included ? |
| 6 | Or ca n't she be bothered , now , or what . |
| 7 | ‘ Ca n't anything be done for her deafness , at least ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Ca n't anything be done ? ’ |
| 9 | As we have seen , individualists are anxious to explain social states of affairs as the outcome of individual actions and attitudes which can not themselves be explained as the outcome of social states of affairs . |
| 10 | Therefore , if reform of that principle was , as I believe , desirable before this decision , it is still needed in several respects which have already been recognised , such as the present inadequacy of section 31 of the Theft Act 1968 , the illogicality of protecting pre-existing documents , the inconsistency between statutes which do and statutes which do not offer protection when material has to be disclosed and the uncertainty as to making use of material discovered by following up admissions which can not themselves be adduced in evidence . |
| 11 | A high temperature and a rash may be signs of a failure in the functioning of the organism , but can not themselves be termed a ‘ failure ’ . |
| 12 | It is for later developments in the theory of ideology that we have to wait for in account that does not raise Marx 's materialism to a status such that it can not itself be analysed as ideology . |
| 13 | The practice of judicial obedience to statute can not itself be based on the authority of statute : it can only reflect a judicial choice based on an understanding of what ( in contemporary conditions ) political morality demands . |
| 14 | It is also seen as similarly elusive , something in terms of which everything else has objectivity but which can not itself be determined as an object . |
| 15 | Charges are higher than for the society 's standard dealing system because the stockbroker can not itself be paid on the deal until the end of the stock exchange account , an average of 10 days ' delay . |
| 16 | The concept of structure is replaced in Derrida 's writing by the concept of a chain of signification which avoids the dangers implicit in the notion of structure : by being open-ended and non-teleological it does away with any idea of a commanding entity within the system , and by having a temporal as well as a spatial dimension it can not itself be reduced to the status of entity or object . |