Example sentences of "can not be an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How would I feel in these circumstances ? ’ is not a bad beginning , although it can not be an ending . |
| 2 | An order for payment of money or for the transfer of assets can not be an order intended to restore parties to transactions to their former positions unless it is known in relation to each transaction in question ( a ) who were the parties ( b ) what the nature of the transaction was and ( c ) what assets or money each party to the transaction had paid or transferred to the others . |
| 3 | It can not be an enterprise on its own , but enables its members to facilitate or develop their economic activities through a vehicle ( which may have a legal personality ) , while the members remain jointly and severally liable for the debts of the combined enterprise and are taxed directly on their respective proportionate shares of the profits . |
| 4 | The degree can not be an outcome ; for the development of the human consciousness has no outcome . |
| 5 | The hierarchical database only allows downward access paths , and a member at one level can not be an owner of a record at a higher level . |
| 6 | The argument to suggest that a non-NE set of choices can not be an equilibrium outcome of the game proceeds as follows . |
| 7 | ‘ Easy , Englishman , you can not be an island , not in this place . |
| 8 | A man can not be an island here if he is ever to turn his back on this place . ’ |
| 9 | He noted that these talks showed that ‘ the difference in social systems can not be an obstacle in establishing in the region a zone of peace , independence , freedom and neutrality , a zone of stability and prosperity ’ . : |
| 10 | Institutions must be considered within the general context of the industrial relations system of which they are an integral part … [ given that ] the point of departure of international comparison can not be an institution as such but must be the function it carries out . |
| 11 | Therefore one can not be an empiricist without being a foundationalist . |
| 12 | If this is so , Quine is wrong to say that one can not be an empiricist in one 's theory of meaning unless one accepts his brand of verificationism , centred on MP . |