Example sentences of "can [not/n't] be [verb] to be " in BNC.

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31 And the human species can not be considered to be eternal either , as we know it did not always exist in its present form , nor can we expect it to have an infinite existence .
32 Q7 " A firm can not be considered to be genuinely marketing-orientated unless it has a thorough understanding of its markets , its customers and their problems . "
33 Learning to draw Islamic patterns at Eid , or Rangoli patterns at Diwali can not be considered to be mathematics unless the mathematical ideas embedded in the patterns are fully explored — considering rotation , reflection and translation can turn this investigation into one where the place of mathematics in different cultures is clear rather than leaving one feeling that examples of important geometric ideas are somehow ‘ outside ’ the real world of mathematics .
34 A As you have had such success in breeding your fish , and raising the fry to a reasonable size , you can not be judged to be doing anything wrong .
35 That can not be judged to be fair or equitable . ’
36 While it certainly can not be claimed to be a panacea for all ills , and no system of therapeutics has yet turned out to be that , it is an approach which I would not like to be without .
37 So , while regression can not be claimed to be the be-all and end-all of therapeutic treatment , it is certainly an important stage .
38 which can not be shown to be justifiable irrespective of the person to whom it is applied .
39 which can not be shown to be justifiable irrespective of the colour , race , nationality or ethnic origins of the person to whom it is applied .
40 The problems of life-histories and oral history are fairly self-evident : they can not be shown to be representative or valid .
41 If shareholders can not be shown to be morally entitled to the corporate property then they have no antecedent moral right to exercise or allocate the power that flows from it , and accordingly the property rights justification of corporate power must fail , and with it , the project of explaining companies as private shareholder domains .
42 There are claimed benefits in academic progress and in social and emotional maturity , but the solution to the basic problem of the language and learning environments can not be taken to be solved in the mainstreaming option .
43 The metabolic concentrations can not be taken to be representative of analgesic ratios .
44 This is because the apparent uptake at one hour can not be taken to be the true uptake in view of the high level at time 0 , which must represent adherence to the cell wall ( Fig 4 ) .
45 This may well have been the intention , but in fact the implications are clear : demolition rates are too low , compulsory purchase of homes for redevelopment is inevitable in the future ; owner-occupiers can not be trusted to be the final arbiters of whether their homes arc unfit' ; and some existing environments may be so drab as to be not worth preserving' .
46 Nevertheless , although generalizations arrived at by legitimate inductions can not be guaranteed to be perfectly true , they are probably true .
47 given that those that are employed today can not be guaranteed to be em to be employed tomorrow and that the three thousand in essence comprises of a constantly changing group of people , I do n't see how anyone can argue that future employment provision is geared towards anybody .
48 ‘ The manufacturing of electrical and electronic components in the year 1964 … can not be adjudged to be a special use nor can the bringing and storing on the premises of metal foil be a special use in itself … .
49 It is also the case that people 's sex can not be held to be an effect of their job or their work record ; sex must be assumed to be causally prior to both of these variables .
50 Yet this is a ability rather than a benefit , and on these grounds the trust can not be held to be valid .
51 The traditional view is that there is no age below which a child can not be held to be guilty of contributory negligence .
52 The position I have tried to adopt is that whilst the atheist must demand clarity , the theist can argue that the nature of his or her task necessitates a use of language that is bound to be criticised as unusual , although it can not be allowed to be contradictory .
53 Their long-term viability can not be allowed to be compromised .
54 Its two halves are asymmetric and can not be folded to be superimposed without first turning one of them over .
55 The applicant is required to certify that he has taken nature conservation into account when implementing his scheme , even though the average farmer can not be expected to be capable of assessing such impacts .
56 At the same time , a vuggy porosity was also created in the lower unit of carbonate mudstones but this was found to have resulted from the dissolution of patches and veins of replacement halite ( Fig. 29b and c ) and as such can not be expected to be present away from the areas where replacement has occurred .
57 This is not a tenable interpretation of rule 12.12 of the Rules of 1986 , given the clear language of paragraph ( 1 ) of the rule and given also that by their nature proceedings under the Insolvency Act 1986 can not be expected to be addressed by Ord. 11 , r. 1 .
58 An ageing labour force can not be expected to be a mobile one .
59 Second-hand goods can not be expected to be perfect .
60 This combination can not be expected to be homogeneous to start with .
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