Example sentences of "[conj] can [not/n't] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This they consider ‘ a more accurate representation of the everyday notion of burden [ and ] a more sensible concept for deciding if the real cost of a certain project can or can not be postponed to future generations ’ . |
| 2 | This is something that can not be left to the dub because we will see the wind from the propellers buffeting the actors . |
| 3 | Mythical beings are reputed in most cases to be responsible for the art that can not be attributed to their own people . |
| 4 | The Kingdom is not and can not be relegated to an appendix which follows the turning of the last page of world history . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , all these matters are only indicative , and can not be said to be conclusive . |
| 6 | First , the models are one-dimensional only and can not be applied to a real solid . |
| 7 | This task is , in my view , something for all of us , and can not be left to doctors or parents to determine , unless we decide formally to authorize them to do so by law . |
| 8 | As the Committee emphasised , however , the acoustic problems are of long standing and can not be attributed to television . |
| 9 | These differences exist from birth and can not be attributed to socially conditioned roles or the expectations of ‘ sexist ’ parents . |
| 10 | Its two halves are asymmetric and can not be folded to be superimposed without first turning one of them over . |
| 11 | The report is expensive and can not be sold to another buyer if you decide not to proceed . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The field of economic policy is very wide and can not be reduced to budgetary policy . |
| 14 | Task analysis has not and can not be reduced to a set of standardised procedures which the aspiring analyst could acquire in a formal training course . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The decision in Rask is , of course , considerable help in support of the contention that the claim would otherwise have succeeded , but can not be said to be conclusive on the point , since it is for the national court to evaluate all the circumstances when assessing whether there was in any particular case a transfer of a business . |
| 17 | Notable among these is the fact that the mismatch of range is even greater than in the case of the prenominal adjectives ; it is true that one can usually expand a postnominal adjective to a relative clause containing be , though we should certainly note cases like : ( 31 ) he is dreaming of the whisky which will be galore with her arms which were akimbo she stared at Victor food which is aplenty is on sale in the end tent however , there is not the slightest difficulty about producing numerous examples where the relative clause with be is fully satisfactory but can not be reduced to a grammatical postnominal adjective . |