Example sentences of "can not be " in BNC.
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| 31 | Delegates can not be guaranteed tickets after 5pm . |
| 32 | Certain tender varieties of narcissi , like ‘ Paper White ’ and ‘ Grand Soleil d'Or ’ , are naturally early flowering and do not need a natural or artificial cool period in order to flower quickly and healthily indoors , but they can not be planted outside afterwards . |
| 33 | The danger involved when towing the glider into a strong wind can not be stressed too much . |
| 34 | If you can not be sure of handling the glider safely , turn it out of the wind , hold the wing down and wait for help . |
| 35 | The disadvantage of rope or parafil is that it can not be retrieved at high speed without the friction overheating and burning the material . |
| 36 | Situations where the cable or tow rope can not be released are now very rare . |
| 37 | Do n't look at the fields immediately below , because the slopes can not be seen from directly above . |
| 38 | Often they can not be practised on the home site because they are not acceptable on a busy airfield . |
| 39 | However , it can not be denied that incompetent side-slipping and sideslipping close to the ground can cause accidents . |
| 40 | The problem is usually discovered only when the threads of the device can not be detected in the vagina . |
| 41 | His ethnographic boundaries can not be described as being geographically to the north of anywhere , for they are around him and within . |
| 42 | This can not be resolved by distancing , repression and short cuts … the specificity and individuality of the observer are ever present and must therefore be acknowledged , explored and put to creative use ( my emphasis ] . |
| 43 | Given that the police are essentially an organization constrained by an ingrained respect for the pragmatism of action — regardless of the lip-service paid to the police college , the ‘ special course ’ , or the university scholarship — it was inevitable that the hierarchy would follow the dictates of institutional philosophy and pull the marginal mover in from the periphery ; for there is a boundary beyond which the pilgrim can not be allowed to stray . |
| 44 | Smooth rings which can not be removed may be taped over . |
| 45 | protests can not be made by the contestant involved . |
| 46 | The second way to underline your punch 's effectiveness is to allow it to strike with a satisfying thud that can not be mistaken . |
| 47 | Severe bruising to the ribs can not be satisfactorily dressed or protected within the rules of competition , but female competitors can use breast shields which may extend over the injury site . |
| 48 | So the lists can not be drawn up . |
| 49 | So the Act can not be applied . |
| 50 | No planks for the flooring yet , and if it is raining we can not be on the roof . |
| 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 | which can not be connected . |
| 53 | which can not be interpreted or praised : |
| 54 | There are some circumstances where for health and safety reasons alcohol can not be allowed at all . |
| 55 | Berkeley 's reason for thinking this was that he believed mental contents to be mental images , and there can not be a general image . |
| 56 | The tendency of the mind to move from one thing to another has to consist in the straightforward fact that one thing usually follows , or is caused by , the other ; the tendency or association can not be thought of as some experienced feature of the situation without reviving the original situation of having an unanalysed conception of the mind 's ability to reach out and apprehend things . |
| 57 | In my case at least , therefore , thought , belief or knowledge concerning the world can not be analysed simply in terms of dispositions to behave . |
| 58 | There can not be a genuine perspective from which a true analysis does not apply . |
| 59 | All behaviouristic theories of cognition are viciously third-personal , where that expression signifies , first , that they can not be applied to the first-person perspective and , second that our ability to apply them to the third person really rests on our bringing to bear first-person knowledge : as with rats in mazes , where my plain and unreduced apprehension of the rat 's environment enables me to see its grasp of that environment in terms of its behaviour within it . |
| 60 | In showing that cognition as a whole can not be treated behaviouristically , I have not thereby shown that a behaviouristic treatment of sense-experience is false . |