Example sentences of "can not be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | That he loved ‘ his charming companion ’ can not be in doubt , but for him work always took precedence . |
| 32 | These can not be in competition . |
| 33 | It can not be in any sense hierarchical . |
| 34 | Since a staggering degree of behavioural complexity can be generated by a set of individually simple subroutines , mere complexity of behaviour can not be in itself a trustworthy guide to intelligence . |
| 35 | Although this leads to productive links with other agencies and services , it can not be in the best interests of the students . |
| 36 | It elides the fact that the historian will always also be historically located and therefore can not be in a position to produce a final totalization , a dialectical situation anticipated by Sartre . |
| 37 | So long as the Crown maintains armed forces for the defence of the realm , it can not be in its interest that any part of them should be immobilised . |
| 38 | This is an area which is only susceptible to research via detailed investigation which , however it is carried out , certainly can not be in terms of the ‘ normality ’ of disabled people , since its concerns must be to explicate the kinds and degrees of difference between the needs of impaired people and the general population , and with the multifarious features of ‘ normal ’ social life which prevent disabled people from being ‘ normal ’ . |
| 39 | The capacity , in principle , of such nervous systems to demonstrate learning and memory can not be in doubt . |
| 40 | ‘ Please , you can not be in such a rush . |
| 41 | The stresses implied in Voigt 's can not be in equilibrium at phase boundaries : the strains in Reuss 's are such that bonding between phases must fail . |
| 42 | Mere respect for the memory and wishes of a testator can not be in any way construed as such . |
| 43 | Although it is understandable that the Minister can not be in two places at once , will she assure the House that her noble Friend will make a strong contribution to the conference ? |
| 44 | That can not be in any of our interests , especially at this time . |
| 45 | The explanation can not be in terms of Carol 's lack of competence in Creole , since she displays a knowledge of Creole forms throughout the conversation . |
| 46 | The concerns of Scott J were echoed by Harman J in Systems Reliability Holdings Plc v Smith [ 1990 ] IRLR 377 where the judge concluded ( in a case where he was concerned with an express restriction on the use and disclosure of , in particular the knowledge acquired by the defendant during his employment of the ability to modify an old computer by a small addition so as to make a new product of significant commercial value ) that the controversial part of Neill LJ 's judgment did not bind him to hold that there can not be in an express restrictive of covenant any restriction on information held by an ex-employee which is not a trade secret or something similar . |
| 47 | There 's no wind and a boat can not be in danger . |
| 48 | ‘ At the labour costs we incur today , we can not be in business long term . ’ |
| 49 | And then to withhold one 's vote as with almost a matter of habit and routine , that can not be in the best interests of the Conservative party . |
| 50 | Results will be published in a future edition of GH , but this can not be before four months . |
| 51 | We can not be like Red Indians , sitting in a circle and acting as one man. , ‘ Do you think we have lost that forever ? ’ |
| 52 | Those emigrés who have settled in Western society have found that their diaspora churches can not be like the great populist and establishment churches of Russia and Greece ; they have to survive as nonconformist ‘ sects ’ . |
| 53 | Surely I can not be like the old murmuring Israelites , to long after the onions and garlic of Egypt when they had suffered there such heavy bondage ? |