Example sentences of "[noun] and can not be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But life is consciousness and can not be suppressed for ever . |
| 2 | But poor refereeing is part and parcel of football and can not be used as an excuse for Newcastle 's plight . |
| 3 | The power to order rectification must , therefore , be found within one or other of the subsection ( 1 ) paragraphs and can not be spelled out of the words ‘ may be rectified . ’ |
| 4 | Members are traditionally allowed a free vote and can not be instructed by their party to follow a line . |
| 5 | Most of the potholes and caves on Leck Fell and elsewhere occur in hollows and shallow valleys and are revealed only after a search , but the next great chasm in the line of march is identified by a fence and can not be missed . |
| 6 | They are useful only for a single set of data and can not be used to compare two sets unless two pies each representing different totals are compared . |
| 7 | Unlike sex identity , which is fixed at conception and can not be changed , gender identity can change and a woman may have a masculine identity and vice versa . |
| 8 | Either I get hooked on the story or message to the exclusion of the drawings , or am arrested by the designs and can not be bothered with the balloons . |
| 9 | The endowment of religious houses and other institutions , though greatly reduced until the end of the century , was thereafter far from contained by this statute and can not be measured simply by the licences enrolled in chancery , since various devices were employed to circumvent the law . |
| 10 | Many people at the Home Office would deny this , arguing that the imperatives of fairness and justice should permeate every branch of its work and can not be hived off and left to others . |
| 11 | There was also " … a considerable quantity of small ore which was got at the beginning of the work and can not be weighed until stamped or broken by an Engine and washed for which purpose they are going to erect one to go be water with all speed and were disstressed for some sycamore wood for the water wheel . " |
| 12 | It has been suggested that such provisos are not effective in protecting a landlord from the severity of the law and can not be set up as a defence to the claim that by accepting rent the breach of covenant has been waived . |
| 13 | At this level of production the program is useful only to its creator and can not be disseminated further . |
| 14 | The bone shows very fine splitting along the lines of orientation of the collagen fibres ( Fig. 1.4A ) and slight erosion of the pits and canals , but these are only visible under high magnification and can not be seen by the naked eye . |
| 15 | The world has always looked to Britain for stability , inventiveness and general mental agility , yet our National Prestige is low , our currency is less than one third of its immediate post-war value against the dollar and can not be explained entirely as a result of market speculation . |
| 16 | Political as it was , it was made by Queen in Council and can not be overturned by a mere change of government . |
| 17 | Roll argued that the true market portfolio is a mean variance efficient portfolio and can not be observed . |
| 18 | Ideally , walls on halls , corridors and staircases ( if any ) should be decorated with the same colour or treatment unless they are in quite different parts of the home and can not be seen , one from another . |
| 19 | Embryo transfer is potentially the safest way of introducing new blood-lines , though even this is not entirely safe ; the outside of a goat embryo resembles a rolled up hedgehog and can not be washed clean ! |
| 20 | And perhaps their foolishness will make everyone understand that however much fun Home Alone is for children at the cinema it is fiction and can not be made real by acting it out . |
| 21 | It is necessary to win over the negotiators to the idea of using such a computer model , and resistance is likely to focus on the idea that negotiating is a matter of judgement and can not be mechanised . |
| 22 | One problem with the type of on-road research used in Study 1 is that each situation encountered is unique to a particular driver and can not be repeated . |
| 23 | The codes participate in the structuring process of the text and can not be rounded off or completed . |
| 24 | Government reforestation targets are not being supported by adequate funding and can not be realised , the report claims . |
| 25 | Everybody living in a country obtains the benefits ( or disbenefits in the case of pacifists ) of national defence and can not be excluded from them . |
| 26 | But topics of discourse are constituted as topics of discourse in certain acts of thought ; they are targets of certain thought-experiences and can not be identified , analysed and discussed except in the context of such experiences . |
| 27 | As a result , each artist was chosen for at least four reasons , but with a common denominator : we decided to present individuals operating from an independent position , whose work has a certain degree of complexity and can not be reduced to one or two key ideas . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The communication of such a word implies the communication of the technique of grafting and can not be explained except as a Massaliote loan-word . |
| 30 | To this end , an SPR may only be passed on 6 times and can not be passed to a user who has previously held it . |