Example sentences of "can [not/n't] be [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The supplied username is not known to LIFESPAN and , therefore , can not be passed the Software Performance Report ( SPR ) . |
| 32 | These observations usefully demonstrate the hazards of working with fewer than 10 tokens ; the ideal appears to be around 30 , but if this can not be attained a figure as much as possible in excess of 10 is a sensible goal . |
| 33 | Of course the parallel between ontogeny and phylogeny can not be carried the whole way through — prehistoric human beings did not look like newborn babies — but there are various reasons why we might expect the early stages of embryonic development to have some relation to the early stages of our evolution . |
| 34 | It can easily be shown that " you know what I mean ! " and " you know ! " in this case can not be eliciting an agreement . |
| 35 | The reason Jesus used parables can not be to hide the truth from people because this is not the intention of teaching and it seems out of character with what we learn about Jesus elsewhere in the Gospel . |
| 36 | Similarly , if a cancer is found at a screening colonoscopy in a patient presenting to a unit years after the programme entry date for example , colitis of 17 years duration or when referred from another centre it can not be counted a success becaue these cancers represent a selected group detected outside the regular surveillance protocol . |