Example sentences of "they can not [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They can not be fixed in advance but are conditional on context because they relate not to sentences but to utterances . |
| 32 | Then again , too many young people have been through the finals course , often at considerable financial hardship to themselves or their families , only to find that they can not be absorbed into a recession-hit profession . |
| 33 | Fire resistant paints may be clear like a varnish , or coloured like a paint , but they can not be overpainted . |
| 34 | His position develops into scepticism proper ( i.e. the view that knowledge is impossible rather than merely rarer than one thinks ) when the standards are set so high that they can not be fulfilled . |
| 35 | Such players as Clive Allen and Tony Cottee are shockingly under-valued these days because they can not be relied upon to step up their work-rate , to coin a phrase . |
| 36 | They can not be seen from the village , but are visible from Anglesey across the Menai Strait . |
| 37 | PI : Locks Warranty : In addition to withdrawing keys from locks , the keys must now also be placed where they can not be seen by a would be thief . |
| 38 | keys are withdrawn from the locks fitted to the Home and placed where they can not be seen by anyone intent on making an unauthorised entry |
| 39 | keys are withdrawn from the locks fitted to the Home and placed where they can not be seen by anyone intent on making an unauthorised entry |
| 40 | These eggs are so small they can not be seen with the naked eye . |
| 41 | Furthermore , these circumstances are said to be essentially heterogeneous , so that they can not be seen as aspects of one large contradiction ; each is a contradiction within a particular social totality . |
| 42 | Finding the optimum location is largely a matter of trial and error , but aim to place them where they can not be seen upside-down ( i.e. , with the top end facing a wall ) , or use them as wall-hangings . |
| 43 | These features make the life of reconstituted families very complex ; they can not be seen as enclosed entities in the same way as cereal-packet nuclear families are . |
| 44 | In these circumstances they can not be seen to be sacrificing their independence for that would undermine their claims to being objective in taking decisions at work . |
| 45 | Consideration of particle emission from black holes would seem to suggest that God not only plays dice but also sometimes throws them where they can not be seen . |
| 46 | In the stage production , all the other characters walk to the back of the stage , so they can not be seen , yet Antonio stays at the front , looking into the audience with a depressed expression on his face . |
| 47 | Within a few weeks the Minister Mrs Hedy d'Ancona , who is on record as saying that some of the works are in such poor condition that they can not be given away without loss of face , will come forward with a number of proposals . |
| 48 | They may define positions that have often been repeated , but they can not be given a timeless quality . |
| 49 | But they lack the three essentials : they do not evolve , they do not process energy , and they can not be called organisms . |
| 50 | Like a fiery Pandora 's box , the lid was thrown wide open , spewing all the good and evil upon the world ( and , like the Greek myth , once good and evil are loosed on the world they can not be called back ) . |
| 51 | Floor , garage floor , and step paints are hard wearing and not slippery , although they can not be called non-slip . |
| 52 | Since they can not be planned in terms of the students ' likely destinations , they must have some other kind of rationale or logic . |
| 53 | However diverse their origins , this means that they can not be presumed typical of their time ; certainly many wrote their life stories just because they were exceptional . |
| 54 | Associated with this view is the general contention that services are consumed at the time they are produced , and therefore they can not be stored , transported or resold . |
| 55 | However , their benefits are much less tangible than a physical product in that they can not be stored or displayed and satisfaction is achieved through activities ( e.g. transportation from one place to another rather than say a seat on a train ) . |
| 56 | They can not be manufactured by our bodies . |
| 57 | Like vitamins , they can not be manufactured by the body , so they must be provided in our daily diet . |
| 58 | But without wealth they can not be tackled at all . |
| 59 | They can not be understood apart . |
| 60 | Above all , they can not be understood " with the politics left out . " " |