Example sentences of "[modal v] not be separated [prep] " in BNC.

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1 They have come to the conclusion that , from the point of view of the welfare of the children , it is more important to the children that they should not be separated from each other than that either child should go to one of the grandmothers .
2 The hard hyphen is used in words or figures which should not be separated by a line-ending even though they contain hyphens : a name like Templeton-Brown , for instance ; or 1939–45 or -5 degrees C.
3 When he got to Bec , Anselm at once spotted his quality , and he was soon sending back to Lanfranc a glowing account of Osbern 's progress : he was ‘ growing daily in knowledge and serenity ’ ; and the friendship between him and Anselm had become so close that they could not be separated without tearing their two souls apart .
4 Unfortunately , acute and chronic pancreatitis could not be separated in the discharge statistics before 1977 .
5 But reform could not be separated from the rising tide of political nationalism and Kossuth 's and Széchenyi 's fates became entwined .
6 A country 's foreign policy , he noted , could not be separated from its ‘ internal life , its economic and social goals and needs ’ ; the Soviet Union , for its part , needed peace so as to be able to achieve its ‘ truly breathtaking creative plans ’ .
7 It was further stated that such an assessment was ‘ first and foremost ’ a matter for the Council , and that the obligation to abolish restrictions on movements of capital could not be separated from the Council 's assessment of the need to liberalize the category of transactions in question .
8 While Iraq demanded the unconditional release of all prisoners-of-war ( PoWs ) and their return to their countries of origin on " humanitarian and legal " grounds , Iran insisted that the issue of prisoner exchange could not be separated from territorial questions and called for the simultaneous withdrawal of Iranian and Iraqi troops from each other 's territory with prisoner exchange .
9 The Italian Foreign Minister Gianni De Michelis said that while the EC did not wish to exert pressure on Israel , political issues could not be separated from considerations about trade co-operation with that country .
10 It is actually a binary , but the two components are so close together that they can not be separated with ordinary telescopes .
11 Also , there is no reason why canonic sections can not be separated by suitable interludes , possibly using homophony as a relief to polyphony , while the ending could be a non-canonic coda .
12 Thus a matrix of ordered regions with disordered interfacial areas is formed , but , unlike materials with small molar masses , the ordered and disordered regions are not discrete entities and can not be separated by differential solution techniques unless the solvent causes selective degradation of the primary bonds in the amorphous regions .
13 Liquid mixtures which deviate widely from ideal behaviour can not be separated by fractional distillation .
14 The reason azeotropic mixtures can not be separated by fractional distillation is that they have maximum or minimum boiling points .
15 Although such mixtures can not be separated by fractional distillation , they can be separated by other means .
16 The finding that the smooth muscle MHC gene encodes multiple isoforms suggests that the proteins originally designated as SM1 and SM2 MHC probably represent multiple forms which can not be separated by one dimensional SDS-PAGE analysis .
17 The conviction carried by how things are in his fiction can not be separated from the sense that they might be otherwise .
18 Therefore the nostalgic gloss my grandmother cast backwards upon her own childhood and on her favourite brother , can not be separated from their histories , and our easy condemnations of slaughter miss the complicated realities .
19 In Guatemala and El Salvador , education can not be separated from political struggles for a number of reasons .
20 Present levels of breakdown , isolation , fear and violence are evils that can not be separated from the economic system that delivers the goods .
21 Here 's why : CREDENTIALS : Under-employed , and has actually read all the books the series is based upon ; SAMPLE MONOLOGUE : ‘ The history of our splendid isle can not be separated from its architecture , its noble people and its rolling moors .
22 This chapter includes an examination of the concept of race and uses several frameworks to demonstrate how racial identity confusion in black children is rooted in the family and society , and therefore can not be separated from the power relationships within society in general and social work agencies in particular .
23 ‘ The fact remains ’ , she wrote , ‘ that differences in status exist , and as long as they exist it is practically impossible , since the lives of children can not be separated from those of their parents , to secure to all children a uniform standard of living ’ ( Rathbone , 1949 , p. 233 ) .
24 Understood in this broader sense , technological change can not be separated from market structures , patterns of competition and social regulation , and from the quality of the educational system and of the labour force .
25 Housing classes can not be separated from wider social processes , particularly the high rate of immigration into Britain during the 1950s and 1960s .
26 Any consideration of the relationship between commodities and persons is overshadowed by the concept of property which , as Sartre ( 1969 : 575–600 ) , Simmel ( 1978 : 306 ) , and others have noted , can not be separated from the basic relationship between being and having .
27 Philosophy can not be separated from the history of philosophy , nor can culture from the history of culture … .
28 In July 1981 the Secretary-General of the GCC specified that ‘ the neutrality of the Gulf can not be separated from the neutrality of the adjacent areas — the Arabian Sea , the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea ’ .
29 Colloidal particles do not settle and can not be separated from the dispersion medium by ordinary techniques such as filtration and centrifugation .
30 The binary policy , which is central to the history of higher education from its elaboration in the second half of the 1960s , and intimately related to the history of the CNAA 's own policies and operations , is explained by many or all of these factors , but can not be separated from perceptions of the roles and attitudes of the universities that we have previously discussed , and which were part of the decision-making environment of the mid- and late 1960s .
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