Example sentences of "can [not/n't] simply be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The actual machine is replaceable , as are the programs which run on it — but your data is unique and can not simply be replaced by the local computer shop . |
| 2 | But blessings can not simply be expected to come along in disguise . |
| 3 | Such images may startlingly demonstrate the general truth that the meaning of a work can not simply be equated with its subject . |
| 4 | But particularly intriguing is the phenomenon of syncretisation itself , as an artistic process , and its relationship to meaning : the process whereby something new is created that can not simply be reduced to either side of two antagonistic forces , or returned to a former ‘ purity ’ . |
| 5 | It can not simply be thought away . |
| 6 | When the uranium fuel has finished its useful life producing electricity inside Britain 's thirty-odd currently operating commercial reactors , it can not simply be disposed of . |
| 7 | The novel proves that knowledge is possible , but also that it is in a sense artificial : it does not come from the past , historical knowledge in particular can not simply be uncovered , laid bare and put out to view ( or rather , the novelist can no longer create the illusion that the past is speaking for itself ) ; it is a construction of the past , and the reader is conscious of , and in compliance with , the careful disposition and organization of the disparate elements that go to make up the whole edifice . |
| 8 | What is at stake in this , and in the work of a number of other writers whom Neale acknowledged , is a sensitivity to generic difference as much as to repetition , and , in particular , to generic difference which can not simply be assigned to the magical agency of authorship . |
| 9 | Television generic series , even the ‘ cheerfully irreverent ’ Twin Peaks , can not simply be shoe-horned into parody , their ‘ weirdness ’ a guarantee of heteroglossia and travesty . |
| 10 | But Jean Marie Le Pen 's following , which at the last elections reached 27 per cent in some regions , can not simply be explained by his charisma . |
| 11 | But at the same time , the classroom can not simply be an extension of the experimental domain . |
| 12 | This is precisely why a Latinate grammar can not simply be transferred to English . |
| 13 | In the vital chapter ‘ The Shadow of the Past ’ Gandalf says a great deal about it , but his information boils down to three basic data : ( 1 ) the Ring is immensely powerful , in right or wrong hands ; ( 2 ) it is dangerous and ultimately fatal to all its possessors — in a sense there are no right hands ; ( 3 ) it can not simply be left unused or put aside , but must be destroyed , something which can happen only in the place of its origin , Orodruin , Mount Doom . |
| 14 | EAT pointed out that ‘ a contract of employment can not simply be silent on the place of work ’ and that ‘ the employers were in business as contractors working at different sites ; so the parties must have envisaged a degree of mobility ’ . |
| 15 | Work on women can not simply be added on to existing , flawed bodies of thought but requires a revolution in the ways in which we think about men as well as women , about work as well as the family , about political and public as well as private issues . |
| 16 | Since these ‘ facts ’ belong to the group as a whole and since the latter is more than the sum of its parts , they have a transcendent reality of their own and can not simply be reduced to the individuals in whose conduct they manifest themselves . |
| 17 | Hume 's complex moral philosophy can not simply be equated with emotivism , but it has much in common with it . |
| 18 | This can not simply be dismissed as another New Right invocation of the Gulag , for Cixous is arguing something much more specific : that Marxism , insofar as it inherits the system of the Hegelian dialectic , is also implicated in the link between the structures of knowledge and the forms of oppression of the last two hundred years : a phenomenon that has become known as Eurocentrism . |
| 19 | Success in primary elections , it would seem , can not simply be bought by political commercials however cunningly they are crafted . |
| 20 | For example , the British 1971 Sample Census data give the following picture : The implication of such substantial discrepancies can not simply be ignored . |
| 21 | These contradictions can not simply be explained in terms of the satisfaction assessments being incorrect ; the disjunction between the two factors-initial answers and overall feeling — is too complete . |
| 22 | The difference can not simply be dismissed as a question of personality , since certain patterns of job satisfaction or dissatisfaction seem to be associated with particular kinds of jobs . |
| 23 | In the development zone primary care arrangements can not simply be left to the normal mechanism of allowing general practitioners to decide , within limits , what services they will provide . |
| 24 | The recognition that children can not simply be written off in the rationality stakes and can not therefore be denied autonomy on this account has led some writers to conclude that they can not , therefore , be denied it on any account . |
| 25 | The conservative outlook entails a particular conception of God ( and of Christ ) , an understanding of which it can not simply be said that it is held in common by all Christians : something I think often not recognized by conservatives themselves . |
| 26 | These mechanisms can not simply be lifted from one society ( and thus from one language via literal translation ) to another . |
| 27 | Indeed a number of recent centralised initiatives , such as TVEI , seem to be based on this premise , although , as Harland ( 1985 ) points out , compliance can not simply be bought with the allocation of resources . |
| 28 | Any such development depends crucially on popular initiatives and can not simply be legislated ( there are , however , important ways in which a socialist government could help to foster enterprise democracy , by making changes in company law , e. g. turning shareholders into mere bond-holders , granting the right to set up democratic mechanisms where this was approved by the workforce , and by means of preferential funding for democratic enterprises and ‘ workers ’ plans ' ) . |
| 29 | But , if I am right in my analysis , one can not simply be content to say that , if his conviction is restored , the respondent will have suffered no injustice . |
| 30 | The newspaper articles supporting Barts are drawn from the experiences of our patients or their relatives and can not simply be ignored . |