Example sentences of "[coord] this can not be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Other people need to be excited by new approaches and this can not be achieved by a dull and formal memorandum . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Like children and families , social workers also need support and this can not be guaranteed by Act of Parliament alone . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is not impossible that [ h ] -loss became fashionable because of its loss in French , but this can not be demonstrated . |
| 14 | Legend maintains that his remains were removed from Monkton kirkyard and placed in the monument but this can not be substantiated . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | BCVB will make every effort to satisfy clients ' requirements , subject to availability of accommodation at the preferred hotel , but this can not be guaranteed . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But this can not be taken as carte blanche for assuming that long-term recorded crime trends correspond to victimization . |
| 21 | 34 ) , but this can not be taken into account . |