Example sentences of "[det] can not be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This can not be done by the person alone , because help is needed in overcoming the amnesias and the emotional repressions , and this can not be achieved by introspection . |
| 32 | Unfortunately this can not be done in the UK House of Commons , and the cameraman has to identify the Member who has been called , often in the midst of a throng of Members competing for the Speaker 's eye , and then to add the computerized caption . |
| 33 | This can not be done from behind a desk as it requires direct observation of the operation , sometimes for an extended period , to find out what is actually done on site as well as what should be done . |
| 34 | However , this can not be done after hanning ; it is necessary to repeat the hanning on the transformed repeated median smooth . |
| 35 | If , therefore , one asks for a prediction of the instantaneous velocity , without making any observations , this can not be given within certain limits . |
| 36 | This is normally set at the purchase price or the upper limit of the price if this can not be determined at completion . |
| 37 | ‘ Surely this can not be justified as an effective use of civil servants ' time or public money . ’ |
| 38 | MG Kent TN4 8XP THE difficulty faced by many younger pensioners is that the husband 's income derives mainly from occupational pensions and this can not be transferred to the wife . |
| 39 | The developer may , for example , be very happy to improve a road junction as an essential prerequisite to his proposed development , but often this can not be assured by a condition . |
| 40 | With regard to " temporality " ( in the sense in which this concept was used above ) , this can not be regarded as a sufficient condition of particularity so long as it is not shown that temporality alone ( in the indicated sense ) ensures numerical identity of particulars ; and if we are to be able to justifiably claim that it is a necessary condition of particularity , we must first show that there can be no extra-temporal particulars . " |
| 41 | This can not be regarded as good practice . |
| 42 | However , planetary chemistry is sufficiently complicated that this can not be regarded as a firm conclusion . |
| 43 | This can not be taught by means of a sequence of graded exercises . |
| 44 | 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 ] . |
| 45 | Substantial progress has been reported in understanding the molecular pathology of presenile Alzheimer 's disease but this can not be extrapolated to senile forms before the epidemiology of presenile disease is known . |
| 46 | However this can not be used as a guide to future performance as investments can go down as well as up . |
| 47 | However , this can not be used as a guide to future fund performance , as unit prices can fall as well as rise . |
| 48 | However , this can not be used as a pretext to justify inertia . |
| 49 | 34 ) , but this can not be taken into account . |
| 50 | This can not be taken for granted , however , and it is worth fending off inevitable disappointment by making enquiries before signing any contract of employment . |
| 51 | While it is a major function of universities to educate , this can not be taken in isolation . |
| 52 | We should not , however , expect a question for the initial verb alone since this is only possible in English for verbs which describe something as being , in some as yet ill-defined sense , " done " to their objects : ( 69 ) what did Rafferty do to the cistern ? and this can not be claimed for the verbs preceding clausal adjectives any more than for a verb which precedes an explicit subordinate clause . |
| 53 | This was Britain 's worst air tragedy , and whilst this can not be classified as an accident in the usual sense of the word , there were calls for greater airport security , and considerable concern over whether a warning that an attack would be made on an American airliner had not been passed onto the public because a drop in seat sales would occur . |
| 54 | This can not be articulated in a sufficiently quantifiable form , and even those elements more amenable to measurement will not be able to be measured accurately . |
| 55 | The observation that CF patients could contaminate environmental surfaces with P cepacia in their sputum suggested that this can not be excluded as an indirect mode of spread of the epidemic strain within the Edinburgh fitness class . |
| 56 | The reader may be disappointed by the standard of what is written , but unlike other sites of criticism , this can not be attributed to the form of publication , only to the limitations of the author . |
| 57 | This can not be inferred from the sectoral trends shown in Figure 3.1 . |
| 58 | Like children and families , social workers also need support and this can not be guaranteed by Act of Parliament alone . |
| 59 | For many reasons this can not be attained by all patients though most can be helped some of the way back , to former states of better health . |
| 60 | This can not be construed as a criticism of the surveillance protocol itself . |