Example sentences of "then it can [not/n't] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they have not seen it for themselves then it can not be true . |
| 2 | If a country does not have control over its tax and expenditure , then it can not be said to have control over anything , since everything comes down to money in the end . |
| 3 | If democracy is about government by the people for the people , then it can not be about giving a bunch of politicians a blank cheque to govern us every five years . |
| 4 | If every generation has the right to decide for itself how it should be governed , then it can not be legitimate for one generation to will away that right on behalf of its successors . |
| 5 | Expressed differently , if a thing exists genuinely in se ( i.e. if it is a true substance ) , then a description of its defining features can not involve references to anything outside that thing ; by the same token , if what purports to be a description of a substance involves references to different substances , then it can not be regarded as a genuine description of any substance . |
| 6 | They can be basted more easily directly along the front edge of the board with steel tacks , provided the tacks are covered with braid , but then it can not be removed . |
| 7 | If this interpretation of the function is correct , that is , if is in reality a disequilibrium adjustment mechanism , then it can not be treated at one and the same time as a trade off relation . |