Example sentences of "[coord] [det] can not be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think , Bill , really you far be it for me to try and teach you your job , but you ought to have perhaps gone back a little bit and wondered why we were all in this position , because you have us in year after year talking about budgets that are made and budgets which improve services , and and we need to be absolutely clear that this budget does not improve services at all , that this budget does very severe damage to services , that the budget that has gone through the Council identifies nearly eight million pounds taken off service provision erm and that can not be done under the Conservatives by making erm a budget with the Liberal Democrats have proved that it ca n't be done , in spite of their previous comments , without pain to services . |
| 2 | He added : ‘ A lot of products from Scottish manufacturing companies are going into international markets and that can not be ignored . |
| 3 | ‘ Had we let this one pass without action it would have set a precedent for others to follow and that can not be allowed to happen . ’ |
| 4 | There 's a common interest of course of avoiding war for most people anyway , but there 's also a common interest we know related to environmental issues and that can not be dealt with by each country , each country may have unique environmental problems but environmental problems straddle erm boundaries of countries as we saw from the Chernobyl problem of some years ago . |
| 5 | Ward teaching commitments must be honoured , and this can not be done if the clinical teacher is asked at short notice to participate in classroom teaching . |
| 6 | To take the example given earlier , it is necessary to show that the statement about the toothache can indeed be paraphrased into a statement about the corresponding neuro-physiological event ( and hence that the occurrence of the latter event is a logically adequate criterion for ascribing the experience in the given instance ) , and this can not be done without making use of the premisses which such a proof might be expected to underpin . |
| 7 | A single electron or positron can not identify a W - of W + with certainty ; there is always a neutrino emitted with the electron in the decay and this can not be detected . |
| 8 | This can not be done by the person alone , because help is needed in overcoming the amnesias and the emotional repressions , and this can not be achieved by introspection . |
| 9 | Other people need to be excited by new approaches and this can not be achieved by a dull and formal memorandum . |
| 10 | Strategic vision and consistency of policies by firms , by their financial investors , and by government , are crucial , and this can not be achieved without a coherent sustained industrial strategy . |
| 11 | What is happening — and this can not be prevented — is that the bound Fiend within the weather-vane is being freed , and at the end of 3 Turns the weather-vane will shatter and it will be released . |
| 12 | MG Kent TN4 8XP THE difficulty faced by many younger pensioners is that the husband 's income derives mainly from occupational pensions and this can not be transferred to the wife . |
| 13 | Modern warfare and the modern economy , for example , require increasingly higher levels of technology and this can not be avoided if any state wishes to participate , or if threatened , survive in the contemporary world . |
| 14 | It appeals to reason , but in order to reason we have got to take something for granted as a starting point and this can not be proved . |
| 15 | Like children and families , social workers also need support and this can not be guaranteed by Act of Parliament alone . |
| 16 | We should not , however , expect a question for the initial verb alone since this is only possible in English for verbs which describe something as being , in some as yet ill-defined sense , " done " to their objects : ( 69 ) what did Rafferty do to the cistern ? and this can not be claimed for the verbs preceding clausal adjectives any more than for a verb which precedes an explicit subordinate clause . |
| 17 | However , there are marked variations in biomass of Colohus spp. in Africa and Presbytis spp. in Asia in different forests and these can not be explained in terms of the overall degree of herbivory of an individual species or its body size , both of which are known to be correlated with biomass in primates as a whole . |
| 18 | As Box reminds us , and as we discussed in Chapter Five , the arrest rate is higher for young blacks ( Stevens and Willis 1979 ) and these can not be accounted for entirely by differences in criminal activity . |
| 19 | The oil paintings of this period are considerably more abstract than the etchings and drawings , and many can not be deciphered or reconstructed without the aid of preliminary sketches . |
| 20 | I fully I fully accept that , er you would obviously build in the facilities which are necessary , but the most of the settlements are limited by existing physical and other constraints , and those can not be overcome , you can not duel the A nineteen as far as Easingwold without very substantial harm , for example to the open countryside , even if it were physically possible and economically possible , to expand Easingwold , sorry , to expand Tadcaster to the required size , we 'd need to roll back greenbelt boundaries , again contrary to P P G two . |
| 21 | We would prefer , of course , a direct link from the towns and cities of the north straight through to the channel tunnel , but that can not be achieved . |
| 22 | Both these cases might be decided similarly on the Seymour test , but that can not be said of Lamb ( 1967 ) . |
| 23 | He does indeed regard the latter case as a splitting of the name " Balak , king of Moab " across two lines ( he calls it " binomination " ) , but that can not be said of the former case . |
| 24 | It is not impossible that [ h ] -loss became fashionable because of its loss in French , but this can not be demonstrated . |
| 25 | Legend maintains that his remains were removed from Monkton kirkyard and placed in the monument but this can not be substantiated . |
| 26 | On proximal joints the dorsal arm spines from one side of the arm form a continuous series with those from the other , but this can not be called a fan in the sense used in other genera of the Ophiacanthidae . |
| 27 | Indeed it is quite possible that at this pH range there is a mixture of gastric acid and duodenal alkaline juices which may be damaging ( with toxic synergism ) to the oesophageal mucosa , but this can not be assessed using the parameter of pH . |
| 28 | BCVB will make every effort to satisfy clients ' requirements , subject to availability of accommodation at the preferred hotel , but this can not be guaranteed . |
| 29 | Substantial progress has been reported in understanding the molecular pathology of presenile Alzheimer 's disease but this can not be extrapolated to senile forms before the epidemiology of presenile disease is known . |
| 30 | A curiously named farm at the eastern end of the parish , adjacent to the waterway which leads into the river Hull , is Corps Landing , the legend being that corpses were landed here for interment , but this can not be proved . |