Example sentences of "[noun sg] can [not/n't] 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 educational needs of people engaged in rural development action can not be met by present provisions . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This means that an action can not be founded on a bad cause . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Likewise they implicitly assume that over the medium-term ( 3-10 years ) , the supply side can not be assumed to be constant . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Leisure Card can not be used in conjunction with Moneysavers , S.E.A.T. , Party Booking Discounts , Standbys and other special concessions . |
| 15 | This extra card can only be used by that shaman — the card can not be used by other shamans . |
| 16 | Units not subject to fear can not be affected by this spell . |
| 17 | Fear can not be experienced at the same time as love — whether we are talking of love of an individual , of mankind , of the world or of yourself . |
| 18 | A person who threatens lawful violence can not be convicted under this section . |
| 19 | It should now be clear that Buid attitudes toward peace and violence can not be understood in terms of innate psycho-biological dispositions , or in terms of their adaptation of the natural environment . |
| 20 | ‘ We feel the issue of the form of state and violence can not be discussed after the setting of an election date . ’ |
| 21 | Management accounts , trade secrets of the business , plans or opportunities for the future can not be released without the approval of the vendor . |
| 22 | The statute can not be referring to the interests of all those individuals because they may differ and the interests of the majority are not necessarily the same as the interests of the State . |
| 23 | An agent can not be prohibited from taking further instructions from the principal , and a principal can not be prevented from giving instructions to the agent . |
| 24 | Addressing the Assembly on June 25 Havel declared : " I share the view that the state of uncertainty can not be prolonged for ever and the sooner the decision is taken the better . |
| 25 | In other words , a positional good can not be shared without losing some of its value ; consequently as the countryside became more accessible during the 1960s , thanks mainly to increasing car ownership , so the value of the rural environment began to fall to those already in possession — and they quickly mobilized to defend their interests . |
| 26 | But the story of closure can not be told beyond this point without analysis of the other psychiatric hospital managed by the AHA with which its fate was so closely bound . |
| 27 | Experience shows that the problem of the mind can not be solved by attacking the citadel itself … the mind is function of body … we must bring some stable foundation to argue from … ’ ( in Barrett , 1980 ) . |
| 28 | Since the Unemployed Flow Survey reported no significant difference between men and women in this respect , the variation in the results obtained from the Cohort Study can not be accounted for by its concentration on men . |
| 29 | A witness can not be asked in examination-in-chief about any previous statement made out of court which is inconsistent with his testimony unless he has been declared a hostile witness by the court . |
| 30 | The force of their own gravity is so great that their collapse can not be halted at all . |