Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] can not be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Believe me , to conclude , tho' I have no business head , for large & lengthy affairs , I am keen enough in figures & small matters , & always was ; so that I can not be disputed . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd go back , to Europe , because I know that I can not be traced . ’ |
| 3 | Her mother has been told that she can not be cured in this country , so with family and friends she 's launched an appeal to try to raise thousands of pounds to take Natalie to the Hoxey Clinic in Mexico City for specialist herbal treatment . |
| 4 | It seems impossible to me that she can not be brought back to life , that such a person can not be brought back to normal life . |
| 5 | A good receptionist must develop a telephone personality — remembering that you can not be seen , only heard . |
| 6 | How could you show that this was not because chocolate bars , sweets , etc. , are more likely to be eaten since your depression means that you can not be bothered to cook a proper meal ? |
| 7 | Otherwise , after a hard day 's work in the middle of winter , you will find that you can not be bothered to make the effort to go along and you will have wasted the fees . |
| 8 | I think it is rebellious of you , that you can not be bothered to find a falsehood with which to flatter me . ’ |
| 9 | I 'm disappointed that we can not be represented , but sure you will appreciate position . |
| 10 | We punish ourselves for ‘ failing ’ and believe that we can not be loved , desired or respected unless we get thin ; and punishment is also linked to profit . |
| 11 | Where are we off to this morning then , so sunk in our own fantasies and imaginings that we can not be troubled to look out for vulnerable senior citizens , eh ? ’ |
| 12 | Should the unthinkable occur , a bottom three position , it should be remembered that we can not be relegated from the Third Division . |
| 13 | Just because the human ear is ‘ deaf ’ to high frequency and low frequency sounds , as every scientist knows , it does not mean they do not exist , nor that we can not be affected by them . |
| 14 | If the Prime Minister is convinced that we can not be excluded from the single currency , he can not afford not to sign the treaty . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ We have very good arguments to prove that we can not be held responsible for the actions of a few people who did not know what they were doing . |
| 16 | You will appreciate that we can not be held responsible if information material to our task is withheld or concealed from us . |
| 17 | You will appreciate that we can not be held responsible if information material to our task is withheld or concealed from us . |
| 18 | You will appreciate that we can not be held responsible if information material to our task is withheld or concealed from us . |
| 19 | You will appreciate that we can not be held responsible if information material to our task is withheld from us ] . |
| 20 | Is the Minister aware that last week in Brussels Madame Scrivener , the relevant Commissioner , assured me that there was no question of our being forced by the European Community to extend the coverage of VAT , and that we can not be forced so to do ? |
| 21 | It is actually a binary , but the two components are so close together that they can not be separated with ordinary telescopes . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The fact that several types of relatives can be called by the same term does not mean that they can not be distinguished . |
| 26 | The difficulty with these checks is that they can not be adjusted to trap the returning hammers without hindering their upward motion . |
| 27 | All behaviouristic theories of cognition are viciously third-personal , where that expression signifies , first , that they can not be applied to the first-person perspective and , second that our ability to apply them to the third person really rests on our bringing to bear first-person knowledge : as with rats in mazes , where my plain and unreduced apprehension of the rat 's environment enables me to see its grasp of that environment in terms of its behaviour within it . |
| 28 | Data analysis techniques were largely developed to cater for the implementation of database systems , although that does not mean that they can not be applied to non-database situations . |
| 29 | That means that they can not be supported , or more importantly tested , by observation . |
| 30 | 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 . |