Example sentences of "this can not be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again this can not be easily interpreted , and the two possible face-value interpretations — that Blacks are being sentenced more harshly than Whites , or the Blacks are more criminal — oversimplify the situation . |
| 2 | While the empirical tests reveal an arbitrage opportunity , this can not be profitably exploited due to the use of stale prices in the computation of the index , the use of non-synchronous closing prices , inadequate allowance for transactions costs , regulatory restrictions ( such as the US uptick restriction on short selling shares , which limits arbitrage aimed at removing an underpricing of futures contracts ) , time lags in trading the portfolio of shares corresponding to the index , the presence of arbitrage risk ( the arbitrage transaction is not riskless due to uncertain dividends , uncertain interest rates , failure to unwind the share position at the EDSP , and so on ) or because the model used to compute the no-arbitrage prices is incorrect . |
| 3 | It may be described using the statistics of random walks but it must be noted that even this can not be exactly true , since by its very nature the chain must avoid itself . |
| 4 | When Schoenberg asks for the piccolo to play ppp in the top level of its register ‘ so schwach wie möglich ’ with the bassoon and solo strings at different dynamic levels , and then asks for completely different textures and dynamics in the next variation , I know that this can not be properly realized by an orchestra in a concert-hall seated in the conventional way . |
| 5 | This can not be precisely quantified , but several writers have had a stab at a formula . |
| 6 | The sensation of seeing is for us very different from the sensation of hearing , but this can not be directly due to the physical differences between light and sound . |
| 7 | The sensation of seeing is , for us , very different from the sensation of hearing , but this can not be directly due to the physical differences between light and sound . |
| 8 | Our work in Belfast , however , and that of colleagues in other cities , makes it clear that this can not be convincingly demonstrated . |
| 9 | Because of the large numbers of emergency caesarean sections it may be true , as Paul Bingham and Richard Lilford claim , that a policy of routine elective caesarean section would not increase immediate maternal mortality , but surely this can not be seriously advocated for a negligible benefit for the fetus . |
| 10 | But it is evident that the species is now a regular winter visitor on a large scale , although the data available to des Forges and Harber suggested that the winter flocks were made up of the breeding population , non-breeding birds and the young of the year , except in very cold weather ; this can not be so today , although cold weather influxes still occur . |
| 11 | Even a brief moment of objective analysis reveals that this can not be so . |
| 12 | In practice , this can not be so . |
| 13 | Most human discourses behave as if language were transparent to a meaning or a reality beyond it , but , if we carry the lessons of Saussure right through to their logical conclusion , we see that this can not be so . |