Example sentences of "can not [be] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told Napo 's annual conference in Bridlington , Humberside : ‘ Electronic surveillance , house arrest tracking , restrictive and punitive community supervision can not be part of any real living community — they simply transfer the techniques of imprisonment into the world at large . ’ |
| 2 | In general , if c is in a causal circumstance cc , and & is the effect of cc " , then cc " can not be part of cc and neither can any part of cc " . |
| 3 | It is to my mind illegitimate to argue — this is a sale , the consideration for a sale is the price , price can only include money or something which can be readily converted into an ascertainable sum of money , therefore anything like wrappers which have no money value when delivered can not be part of the consideration . |
| 4 | This case makes clear that normally there can not be liability as a constructive trustee merely for ‘ knowing assistance ’ in a fraudulent design if there was no dishonesty or lack of probity on the part of the alleged trustee , and if knowledge would not have been inferred in the circumstances by an honest and reasonable person . |
| 5 | But there can not be complacency in Downing Street or satisfaction in the country as long as the unemployment figures continue to rise so sharply . |
| 6 | Although the European Community as a body can not be party to the Berne Convention ( since it is not a nation state ) , the Convention nevertheless specifically concerns the EC . |
| 7 | Contracts for the acquisition of software alone can not be sale of goods contracts ; the title to the software is not normally transferred nor is a computer program a good . |
| 8 | ‘ God and the King ’ , he proclaimed , ‘ are so in a league … as one can not be enemy to the one , but that he must be to the other . |
| 9 | For instance , in Sibree v. Tripp , Parke B. says , ‘ It is clear if the claim be a liquidated and ascertained sum , payment of part can not be satisfaction of the whole , although it may , under certain circumstances , be evidence of a gift of the remainder . ’ |
| 10 | When I say that some of them take [ women compositors ] to be wives , there can not be ill-feeling toward them " . |
| 11 | If it were , we should be subject to a kind of indecision about the causal connection between condition-sets and their effects which is in fact entirely missing from our deliberations. ( ii ) On the given probabilistic analyses an event e , if it lowers the probability of an event f , can not be cause of f . |