Example sentences of "[noun sg] can [not/n't] be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The statement of the principle of subsidiarity in the Maastricht text is in what would be a new Article 3B of the EEC Treaty , to the effect that ‘ in areas which do not fall within its exclusive competence ’ the Community should take action only if and so far as the objectives of the proposed action can not be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can , therefore , by reason of the scale or effects of the proposed action , be better achieved by the Community . |
| 2 | In areas which do not fall within its exclusive competence , the Community shall take action , in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity , only if and in so far as the objectives of the proposed action can not be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can therefore , by reason of the scale or effects of the proposed action , be better achieved by the Community . |
| 3 | According to Article 3B , ‘ the Community shall take action … only if and in so far as the objectives of the proposed action can not be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can … be better achieved by the Community ’ . |
| 4 | A new article in the treaty declared that the EC would act " only if and in so far as the objectives of the proposed action can not be sufficiently achieved by the member states " . |
| 5 | Corporatism tends to " fit " the facts best with respect to the major functional economic groupings of capital and labour ; with respect to issues of economic policy ( especially in so far as they concern incomes ) in periods of boom when labour can not be easily disciplined by market forces ; and at the level of the central state . |
| 6 | Unless these issues are satisfactorily resolved , ideas emerging from disciplinary study can not be effectively assessed or acted upon in the pedagogic domain . |
| 7 | A particular lexical unit , of course , expresses its semantic identity through such relations , but its essence can not be exhaustively characterised in terms of any determinate set of such relations . |
| 8 | A proper engineering drawing can not be thus fudged ; like Wolf , the draughtsman must fully comprehend what he is drawing . |
| 9 | Conjugate quantities such as the phase and amplitude of an oscillation can not be simultaneously measured with arbitrary precision because their operators do not commute . |
| 10 | When comparative efficiency is taken into account , such a degree of concentration can not be directly explained by Britain 's reliance on international trade , though its traditional international role had obviously played an important part in conditioning business horizons . |
| 11 | The fact that the " adornment " theory was entertained for so long deserves some explanation and its appropriateness can not be altogether dismissed in the case of " artificial " styles cultivated by such Renaissance mannerists as Sidney and Lyly . |
| 12 | However , successful regeneration can not be adequately defined in solely physical terms . |
| 13 | The activity of psychoanalysis in the therapeutic setting can not be adequately grasped and stated in mechanistic , quantitative terms . |
| 14 | Responses to controlled hypoglycaemia induced in a laboratory setting can not be directly applied to the clinical situation . |
| 15 | What the data show is that the issue of sign universality can not be easily described as confirmed or disproved . |
| 16 | The present attitude of the courts towards judicial review can not be adequately understood unless some idea is conveyed of eighteenth and nineteenth century case law . |
| 17 | Some people think that the law of judicial review can not be properly understood unless it is studied against the background of a particular area of governmental activity such as housing or immigration , in order to see how the general rules are use to deal with particular problems . |
| 18 | Purists would argue that type can not be intelligently designed unless the creator understands the calligraphic origin of the thin and broad parts of most typefaces . |
| 19 | This is designed for situations where for one reason or another the work can not be fully described in advance and therefore a price can not be agreed . |
| 20 | With this method the caption can not be easily removed , which from one point of view is a benefit since the picture will not easily lose its identification . |
| 21 | Thus , the distinction between a benign andmalignant lesion may be impossible since signal intensity values are similar for both , and , furthermore , the characteristic patterns of cortical bone destruction and new bone formation can not be well visualised on MRI . |
| 22 | A If an anemone can not be easily removed ( and without damage ) when you buy it , then I would certainly seriously consider buying the rock if has attached itself to as well . |
| 23 | To claim that there is only one substance sounds like an answer to the question " How many substances are there ? " and Spinoza 's conception of substance is such that this question can not be properly asked . |
| 24 | The question can not be realistically discussed , however , unless there is some measure of the genuine independence of the union . |
| 25 | Since there is no enumerated list of British black persons ( even assuming that this is a well-defined category ) , speakers from the British black community can not be systematically sampled from a range of social classes . |
| 26 | Despite this finding , the two classes of junction we have created on the basis of their phosphorus chemical shift can not be clearly distinguished in terms of the energetics of the B I -B II transition . |
| 27 | 28–1 At a congregation meeting they resolved that , as under present circumstances the Spiritual and moral interests of the congregation and the large outlying population can not be adequately attended to while Bowmore remains a mere station of the church , seeing that when probationers and Deputies of the Church come their stay is but temporary and quite insufficient for the necessities of the place , that an effort be made to raise the contributions of the congregation to an amount which might warrant the Presbytery to recommend to the Assembly that Bowmore be made a regularly sanctioned charge . |
| 28 | Even an advanced Intelloid can not be properly programmed with an inclusive appreciation of human laughter-stimulation … ’ |
| 29 | The original environment of human evolutionary adaptedness can not be clearly defined because our evolution has been such an extraordinary progression of expansive diversifications in adapting to an immense range of environments . |
| 30 | This need can not be better filled than by the Citizens Advice Bureaux . ’ |