Example sentences of "can [not/n't] be [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worse still it is the superstition that the Holy Mass or a sermon or a prayer can not be locked up on a roll of magnetic tape without being desecrated in some way . |
| 2 | However , deterrence will exist only when young people can be locked up in secure accommodation : if they can not be locked up , all this will be a waste of time . |
| 3 | Non-renewable sources of energy are those which can not be replaced once used up . |
| 4 | Thirdly , thorough cooking and rapid cooking will usually destroy pathogens although it can not be relied on to destroy spores or preformed toxins . |
| 5 | But … the growth in net exports ( of ) services and food can not be relied on to replace the loss of manufacturing and oil net exports and secure further growth sufficient to achieve full employment ’ ( p. 139 ) . |
| 6 | I agree with Jacobs that legislation may be the only answer as commercial forces , if left to their own devices , can not be relied on to protect the most vulnerable members of society . |
| 7 | If previous experience is any guide , politicians can not be relied on to lead that debate . |
| 8 | The court can not be relied on to imply a term that the parties should co-operate in the appointment of a replacement : see 8.17.4 . |
| 9 | An element is a pure substance which can not be split up into any simpler pure substance . |
| 10 | The philosophical position I have just outlined is not like a scientific theory : it can not be tested experimentally . |
| 11 | Relativism is a stance which assumes that opinions which can not be tested scientifically are just subjective and relative to the particular context giving rise to them , to cultural upbringing and different individual and group experience . |
| 12 | It is not simply a contractual relationship which can be ended at will , for what God has joined together can not be ended lightly . |
| 13 | Environmental protection can not be tacked on to the end of industrial development . |
| 14 | A series is in course of production and implementation in both areas , and once a programme is introduced in Class I this is the beginning of a seven year ride which can not be slowed down or stopped . |
| 15 | HIV can not be transmitted through |
| 16 | Finally , existence can not be treated simply as a property of concepts either . |
| 17 | In showing that cognition as a whole can not be treated behaviouristically , I have not thereby shown that a behaviouristic treatment of sense-experience is false . |
| 18 | Sadder occasions occur ambulance charters need to be carried out , typically to Southampton with a patient who can not be treated satisfactorily in the islands . |
| 19 | The McKinsey-GE matrix also recognizes that in many businesses investment decisions can not be made simply upon information about market growth and the current share held . |
| 20 | It can not be made up of a wave with a unique value for its wavelength since such a wave stretches on for ever . |
| 21 | Copy out these six numbers and find the next six that can not be made up by multiplication . |
| 22 | But the development of a child 's body and mind in the first three years of life is absolutely vital — any stunting of growth in these years can not be made up for in later life . |
| 23 | Employers in public administration and in traditional production and service organisations have been attempting to restructure their salary systems or to add special supplements in an attempt to attract and retain DP staff ( see IDS , 1986c ) , but such adjustments can not be made easily . |
| 24 | But this was shown to be an unattainable goal for the simple reason that the meaning of an existential proposition can not be made fully clear without making use of some existential proposition or other as part of the explanans . |
| 25 | Evidently it is not much use replacing existential propositions with their properly quantified " canonical " paraphrases , if the concept of existential quantification itself gives rise to obscurities and can not be made sufficiently precise . |
| 26 | If that part of the journey from home to destination that lies outside the immediate neighbourhood can not be made safely and easily by bike or on foot , then the environmental and safety gains made inside neighbourhood traffic calmed areas are unlikely to be fully utilised . |
| 27 | But sometimes people have an illness which can not be made better . |
| 28 | The seasons can not be made more gentle , yet it remains possible to assert the dignity of people who have to bear their harshness . |
| 29 | It also presents the most difficult problem for those who , like myself , are convinced on practical grounds that a sufficient case can not be made out for the restoration of capital punishment . |
| 30 | These clearly show the bridges of Paris : with pictures from Landsat B , they can not be made out . |