Example sentences of "[adv] can [not/n't] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Births registered by the mother only can not be assigned to a social class , but the Longitudinal Study showed that 73 per cent of teenage illegitimate births in 1970–4 occurred to women where the ‘ chief economic supporter ’ ( usually father ) was a manual worker ; 13 per cent in social class V ( Werner 1989 ) . |
| 2 | This contrasts with Derrida 's view of différance which cuts across the distinction between diachrony and synchrony by including a temporal as well as a spatial dimension : elements are seen as part of a chain of relationships which can not be de fined as either diachronic or synchronic and so can not be reduced to the status of an object in the way that synchronically defined structures can . |
| 3 | The critique of Nietzsche 's apocalyptic aestheticism , with its injunction to build your dwelling on the slopes of Vesuvius , just can not be reduced to the cliché about Baudrillard fiddling while Rome burns with which the book closes . |
| 4 | This is especially likely to be the case with short essays and exam answers , where you clearly can not be expected to be " original " in the sense in which a researcher or expert in the field might be expected to be . |
| 5 | While the double-blind trial is well suited to testing of conventional drugs it often can not be applied to complementary therapies , for instance , the acupuncturist must establish a close link with the patient during treatment , and the therapist must know which points he is needling and possibly modify them as the patient 's responses change . |
| 6 | given that those that are employed today can not be guaranteed to be em to be employed tomorrow and that the three thousand in essence comprises of a constantly changing group of people , I do n't see how anyone can argue that future employment provision is geared towards anybody . |
| 7 | The balance-of-payments problem plainly can not be reduced to one of ‘ how to pay for essential imports ’ . |
| 8 | Ruether 's , if she is not saying in any sense of Christ that he is unique , surely can not be said to be so . |
| 9 | Newby Moss merits a leisurely exploration but the broad ridge beyond can not be recommended to walkers who travel for pleasure . |
| 10 | While it certainly can not be claimed to be a panacea for all ills , and no system of therapeutics has yet turned out to be that , it is an approach which I would not like to be without . |
| 11 | This may be due to its availability as a popular aquarium fish , but it certainly can not be attributed to lack of sex identification . |