Example sentences of "can not [be] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in recent years the knowledge of the role of electricity in the treatment of disease has developed considerably , and there are no technical reasons why the findings and the techniques outlined can not be implemented and developed immediately by any competent specialist . |
| 2 | But there is no reason why the doctrine of justice actually reflected by the constitutional arrangements of a state may not be reached as a result of people realizing that their different ideals of the good , each leading to a different doctrine of justice , can not be implemented because of the widespread disagreement in society concerning their value . |
| 3 | A dynamic allocation of exactly the right amount of memory for the word can not be implemented because the structure needs to be contiguous in memory for the fast saving and reading in from a file ( as discussed in section 3.3.6 ) . |
| 4 | Obviously there may be circumstances in which the normal procedure of application and issue can not be followed because of the urgency of the matter and a procedure exists for obtaining an emergency representation certificate in such cases . |
| 5 | He says the important open area can not be replaced once it is lost , the scheme would severely damage the Richmond Conservation Area and would bring noise , disturbance and loss of environment to neighbours . |
| 6 | We have said goodbye to a person who can not be replaced and the rest of us will have to work the harder and care the more in order to try to fill the gap left by his passing . |
| 7 | Like the colour of the great shades in the saloon , they can not be replaced or even exactly reproduced . |
| 8 | Buildings — and not just historic ones — represent energy , labour and materials , which either can not be replaced or can only be replaced at enormous cost . |
| 9 | Note that it can not be formulated as ‘ always calculate proportions along the rows ’ ; this would only work if the explanatory variable was always put in the rows , and no such convention has been established . |
| 10 | Having examined this location I regret to advise you that there are several reasons why this stop can not be relocated as requested . |
| 11 | Note that some types of motorised valve can not be serviced and have to be replaced ( a job that will entail draining down the entire system ) , but on many newer models it is possible to replace the valve motor and free the valve spindle if it is jammed , without having to interfere with the plumbing . |
| 12 | It may , of course , be reintroduced into the House of Lord ; and passed again in a later session , but it can not be enacted until the House of Commons passes it . |
| 13 | If you can not be contacted or do not make acceptable repayment proposals within a reasonable time , we may commence or continue procedures to enforce repayment . |
| 14 | Clearly pupils can not be treated as identical , assumed to be already equal , as though racism and sexism did not exist . |
| 15 | It will further be argued that initial teacher training can not be treated as separate from other areas of teacher education and that changes in any one sector will inevitably influence all teacher education provision , initial , probation support and in-service and that in the light of this interdependence , strategies should be established for a coordinated response across the spectrum of teacher education provision . |
| 16 | Any representatives received can not be treated as confidential in view of the provisions of the Local Government ( Access to Information ) Act 1985 , which makes available such documents for public inspection . |
| 17 | If , therefore , a person occupies or uses land by licence of the owner with the paper title and his licence has not been duly determined , he can not be treated as having been in " adverse possession " … |
| 18 | Finally , a word 's syntactic and semantic properties can not be accessed until all ( or most ) of its acoustic material has been processed . |
| 19 | The flaw of monism is that it tends to view a text as an undifferentiated whole , so that examination of linguistic choices can not be made except on some ad hoc principle . |
| 20 | A strict comparison can not be made since the new charges are based on two-person households whereas the existing charge is levied on individual community charge payers . |
| 21 | Maastricht deals directly with its problem by giving new powers and scrutiny to the European Parliament which means that decisions can not be made unless both Council and Parliament agree . |
| 22 | As two days are allocated for the match in order to obtain a result , refunds can not be made and nor can tickets be accepted back for exchange or re-sale . |
| 23 | Generally , the only way to find something out is to go and see the individual concerned ; however , appointments can not be made when the phone refuses to work . |
| 24 | So , whilst the perils of specialist slots are very real , they can not be relinquished before the mainstream becomes fully representative . |
| 25 | The student will find that all ‘ added 6ths ’ can not be arranged as above . |
| 26 | The communication of such a word implies the communication of the technique of grafting and can not be explained except as a Massaliote loan-word . |
| 27 | Corrigan points out that the delinquency of these boys can not be explained or understood outside the context of their leisure activities ( or lack of them ) . |
| 28 | Some of these aspects may well combine in complex and inexplicable ways in the learning process and clearly the teacher can not take the chance of depriving learners of effective learning conditions on the grounds that they can not be explained or controlled . |
| 29 | Eighteen months later , Thomas is making a good recovery , though he can not be diagnosed as being clear of leukaemia for another three years . |
| 30 | If the recording system changes from time to time these questions can not be answered because even slightly different recording systems can be measuring completely different behaviours . |