Example sentences of "[noun] can [not/n't] survive " in BNC.
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| 1 | This conflict of interest must ultimately be resolved since a social system containing such contradictions can not survive unchanged . |
| 2 | Small shops can not survive for long under these conditions . |
| 3 | There remained only ‘ Z ’ Special Force , an undercover operation on the island run by Captains Broadhurst and Wylie , former members of the Malay police force , who organised native lookouts and a radio reporting system which at one time had 25 radio stations on the island , demonstrating how a few guerrillas may succeed in adverse local conditions where a larger force can not survive . |
| 4 | Some Japanese businessmen will concede , at least in private , that the post-1945 system of lifetime employment in large companies can not survive . |
| 5 | Exposing fruit flies to X-rays or certain chemicals produces mutations , many of them lethal , as a result of which the flies can not survive at all . |
| 6 | The only thing that Trolls can not survive is fire . |
| 7 | Many water plants can not survive in acidified pools or streams , and dippers and otters are less likely to be found there . |
| 8 | The man of the forest can not survive long if his forest home disappears . |
| 9 | An island of Czech reaction can not survive among its metamorphosed neighbours for more than a geopolitical instant . |
| 10 | An island of Czech reaction can not survive among its metamorphosed neighbours for more than a geopolitical instant . |
| 11 | Employers of sans-papiers insist their businesses can not survive unless they flout official employment codes . |
| 12 | In the river Tywi in mid-Wales ‘ native brown trout can not survive the combined effects of the acidity and elevated aluminium concentrations found in water draining from conifer forests in the area . ’ |
| 13 | For the avoidance of doubt , Mr. Speaker , I do not intend to give way to the hon. Gentleman and , if he persists in intervening , it is merely because the Labour party 's grasp of democracy can not survive a week such as the previous one . |
| 14 | If lost , the ferret can not survive for any length of time . |
| 15 | Research has shown that some old people can not survive the emotional shock of moving to the Home and die within a few weeks . |
| 16 | We now know that two protons will not directly make helium ; two protons can not survive the electrical disruption on their own and the stable helium nucleus contains neutrons as well . |
| 17 | What follows from this is that reason can not survive unless general values of this kind are maintained . |
| 18 | In Leaf v International Galleries , Denning LJ ( as he then was ) expressed the view that the right to rescind for misrepresentation can not survive beyond the point of time when a right to reject for breach of condition is lost . |
| 19 | ‘ To accuse him of failure because your own ego can not survive the knowledge that a man does not want you ? ’ |
| 20 | The CAP can not survive because it is totally unrelated to the realities of a free market . |
| 21 | The second reason why the CAP can not survive is that all practical considerations are subordinated to political expediency . |
| 22 | Without these he acknowledges quite candidly that the system can not survive . |
| 23 | The main purpose of Marx 's economic theory is to explain the phenomenon of surplus value in the capitalist system and the reason why capitalism as an economic system can not survive but must give way to socialism . |
| 24 | Because of the capitalist 's desire for profit and wealth Marx develops a number of arguments to show that the system can not survive . |