Example sentences of "[pron] can not be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The topmost foliage is taller than me and the growth is so dense I can not be seen from the lawn as I dig into the muddy trench which forms an oasis round the stem . |
| 2 | I have discharged my duty , she thought , I can not be troubled by my conscience in that respect . |
| 3 | I can not be mistaken about perceiving something as , say , a cigarette case , because in saying , ‘ It looks like a cigarette case ’ I am not saying that there is an appearance which is a cigarette case . |
| 4 | ‘ I can not be suspected by anyone of seeking prestige , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Furthermore , complexes formed by oligonucleotide I can not be competed with oligonucleotide III and vice versa oligonucleotide III complexes can not be competed with oligonucleotide I ( Fig. 3 , lanes 1–4 ) . |
| 6 | If my servant , acting bona fide within the scope of his authority , procures or causes me to break a contract which I have made with you , you can not sue the servant for interference with the contract ; for he is my alter ego here , and I can not be sued for inducing myself to break a contract , although I may be liable for breaking the contract . |
| 7 | At a later stage , if errors are found in the procedure 's performance which can not be traced to a falling within the local system , it may be necessary to examine these influencing factors further , for instance the design of the form might be inadequate for the accurate recording of information , a factor outside the direct control of the section involved . |
| 8 | It is one of the great drawbacks of much ‘ popular ’ social writing in newspapers and magazines that statements are made , the validity of which can not be accepted without more evidence . |
| 9 | holds a qualification in hotel and catering management which can not be accepted for complete exemption from the Association 's education criteria . |
| 10 | He suggests that parents and child should draw up a contract between them , with both making promises which can not be altered without joint agreement . |
| 11 | NB When using pile fabrics which can not be ironed in the same way , cut the bump 2.5cm ( 1in ) larger than the buckram all round . |
| 12 | For instance , the words ‘ inshore fishing is n't an easy life ’ might add something which can not be gathered from the pictures alone . |
| 13 | This could be construed as a tailor-made curriculum , which can not be developed into a generic or core curriculum . |
| 14 | It applies to all those thoughts of the human mind which are real enough to the thinker , but which can not be converted to physical things and detected by the five senses of sight , hearing , touch , taste and smell . |
| 15 | This is easily seen in the mundane example of housework , which can not be done by making sporadic once-off assaults on it , but needs constant attention . |
| 16 | It is suggested that it is unsatisfactory to allow the rent to be fixed in reliance on assertions made by the parties which can not be challenged by cross examination , and where the expert is not to be given an opportunity of seeing and evaluating the quality of the witnesses . |
| 17 | It is particularly suitable for displaying very low frequency trends ( such as a battery discharge ) which can not be displayed on an oscilloscope due to the limitations of a CRT . |
| 18 | On waters which can not be baited from a boat , and where swims are too distant to be fed by catapult , the use of a swimfeeder to distribute loose feed around the hookbait is often a deadly method . |
| 19 | The evidence of three recent controlled studies indicates that clients with bulimia nervosa can benefit to a similar degree from treatments which can not be regarded as forms of Cognitive–Behaviour Therapy ( Fairburn and Cooper , 1989 ) . |
| 20 | This remark emphasizes again the point previously made that moral considerations , which can not be regarded as principles in the Kantian sense , are involved in situations of moral dilemma or in what Winch calls ‘ ‘ the perspective' ’ of the action' . |
| 21 | Equally obviously , for any degree of smallness or crudeness of ancestral air-catching surfaces , there must be some distance , however short , which can be jumped with the flap and which can not be jumped without the flap . |
| 22 | The implicit recognition of this in their work is obscured by the distinction they make between ‘ direct experience ’ and more ‘ abstract ’ ‘ underlying ’ causes which can not be grasped at the level of immediate experience . |
| 23 | I would advise such readers not to lose heart : there is nothing in this book which can not be grasped by an 11-year-old who employs a little application : I know , because I 've tested it on an 11-year-old . |
| 24 | attempt to understand and explain immediate daily experience , while the real reasons for both the socio-economic decline and New Commonwealth immigration are to be found in much more abstract and long-standing social and economic processes which can not be grasped in terms of daily experience . |
| 25 | There is a whole range of language communication , particularly that which involves the interrelation between speaker and hearer , which can not be fitted into this conceptual view of semantics ( see 9.1–9.1.2 ) . |
| 26 | Aggregation results in mixed or compound Poisson distributions which can not be fitted by standard methods . |
| 27 | Earlier yesterday , the Court of Appeal refused an application by Mr Goodwin 's employers , the publishers Morgan Grampian , to revoke the order forcing him to hand over notes containing confidential financial information concerning a company , which can not be named for legal reasons . |
| 28 | The road will open the forest to settlers , who elsewhere have cleared forest for cattle , overhunted and introduced alcohol and diseases which can not be tolerated by forest people . |
| 29 | Unlike material from the Earth and other meteorites , carbonaceous chondrites have oxygen-isotope abundances which can not be explained by purely mass-related effects . |
| 30 | It is a quality which is clearly necessary for communication and therefore for foreign language learning , but which can not be explained by concentrating on the internal grammar of sentences . |