Example sentences of "[noun sg] can [adv] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Religion can not be divorced from morality in his view for it is belief in an ordered moral government of the universe and when we lose our basis in morality we cease to be religious . |
| 2 | The same does not apply to the view that religion can not be divorced from a form of morality . |
| 3 | The appeal of liturgical monastic religion can also be seen from the fact that when Ethelwold in the 960s expelled the married clergy from the church of Winchester in favour of celibate monks , three of the former clergy , Eadsige , Wulfige , and Wilstan , returned as celibates to the new communal life . |
| 4 | The dominant religion can also be mediated through law . |
| 5 | Variations of load and friction torques with speed can also be taken into account . |
| 6 | Speed can therefore be changed from 1,100rpm for drilling to 400 for driving . |
| 7 | The educational needs of people engaged in rural development action can not be met by present provisions . |
| 8 | It is not the same sort of task as that of the natural scientist in search of hidden causes , because the context of action can not be divorced from the actors ' understanding of the context . |
| 9 | This means that an action can not be founded on a bad cause . |
| 10 | This action can not be interpreted as an inhibition by stauro sporine of negative modulation of the histamine H 2 receptor by a basal activity of protein kinase C because similar effects were found with gastric inhibitory polypeptide , the action of which was not inhibited by activation of protein kinase C. Finally 1-oleoyl-2-acetyl-glycerol , a diacylglycerol analogue which activates protein kinase C in intact cells , inhibited histamine stimulation of cyclic AMP content in HGT-1 cells at a concentration at which it inhibited histamine stimulated aminopyrine accumulation in partietal cells . |
| 11 | An action can therefore be brought against the testamentary heir for the excess over 100 aurei . |
| 12 | First , a rational plan of action can only be arrived at after the patient 's problems have been identified . |
| 13 | Social action can never be separated from practical constraints or from social control . |
| 14 | A discharge from the urethra can sometimes be demonstrated during the medical examination , but , since the urethral opening in the female is hidden between the folds of the labia , such a discharge will not be apparent to the woman herself ; even if she examines herself , the natural moistness of this part of the body will tend to mask any contribution from the urethra . |
| 15 | But he warns that the ideas of civil association and enterprise association can not be understood as complementary characteristics ; they each stand for an independent , self-sustaining mode of association . |
| 16 | The tendency of the mind to move from one thing to another has to consist in the straightforward fact that one thing usually follows , or is caused by , the other ; the tendency or association can not be thought of as some experienced feature of the situation without reviving the original situation of having an unanalysed conception of the mind 's ability to reach out and apprehend things . |
| 17 | Likewise they implicitly assume that over the medium-term ( 3-10 years ) , the supply side can not be assumed to be constant . |
| 18 | Whatever the case , the number one lesson to learn is that a horse can not be prevented from pulling by merely pulling back at him . |
| 19 | Conversely , a spirit of self-criticism and renewal can hardly be said to be absent from the religious sphere when one of the problems faced by institutionalized orthodoxies has been to contain the eruption of reform and sectarian revolt . |
| 20 | The reality that there are rights of ownership and that they are liable to , and do , conflict with those of labour can not be exorcised by pretending that they are not there ; and it is the exclusion of the public sector from the Committee 's purview which admits that reality . |
| 21 | The struggle to end capitalist wage labour can not be helped by women opting out and can only be undertaken by a working class that is less divided by male domination than the present one . |
| 22 | As a commodity , labour can not be allowed by management to participate in decision-making since this loss of control could endanger the private appropriation of profit ( Nichols 1980 , pp. 287–9 ) . |
| 23 | This as it stands is not an adequate explanation unless the result of the differentiation is that less skilled labour can now be used for machine operating . |
| 24 | The occupational mobility of labour can often be overcome by a period of retraining , but this takes time and may be costly for the unemployed worker . |
| 25 | Thus the total number of transactions T in the economy can be taken to be fixed if full employment is the norm , or alternatively the assumption that the quantity of money has no permanent effect on the real sector of the economy implies that T is independent of M. Consequently there should be a definite relationship between the quantity of money and the price level if the velocity of circulation can also be shown to be independent of M. |
| 26 | Leisure Card can not be used in conjunction with Moneysavers , S.E.A.T. , Party Booking Discounts , Standbys and other special concessions . |
| 27 | This extra card can only be used by that shaman — the card can not be used by other shamans . |
| 28 | This extra card can only be used by that shaman — the card can not be used by other shamans . |
| 29 | The bit offset in the byte and the byte offset are returned and the full offset can then be calculated by |
| 30 | A further point was taken by Mr. Scrivener that the decisions referred to in the subsection can only be made by the Secretary of State personally and that he may not delegate or transfer the power to make the decision to a minister of state , as happened in the case of Mr. Pegg . |