Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [not/n't] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | As such , it can not be restricted to the description of linguistic forms independent of the purposes or functions which those forms are designed to serve in human affairs . |
| 32 | This broad sense should include the ironic , metaphoric and implicit communicative content of an utterance , and so it can not be restricted to the conventional content of what is said . |
| 33 | Clearly this can not be a process completed during initial training but equally clearly it can not be attributed to the sole responsibility of academic or in-service courses . |
| 34 | Attacking a Steam Tank is very difficult — not the least because it can not be brought to hand-to-hand combat but will always move off in its own turn . |
| 35 | Mr Fuchs has made it clear that he can not be called to task for the museum 's deficit and has blamed two principal factors . |