Example sentences of "can not be determined " in BNC.

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1 Because of interaction , component values can not be determined by a simple ‘ rule of thumb ’ and it is necessary to equate the response in terms of impedances with that in terms of time constants .
2 The relative narrowness of focus of particular modules , and the way this corresponds with the need for cross-reference to make explicit the common denominator of principle , are matters which can not be determined in advance but depend on what teachers conceive their problems to be and on the actual experience of designing and using such modules .
3 Schemes will no longer be considered for registration where the fixed percentage of profit or the specified amount of the notional pool to be distributed as PRP depend on a formula that can not be determined at the time of writing the scheme ( p 103 ) .
4 Under a new Statement of Practice ( SP 7/92 ) , schemes will no longer be considered for registration where the fixed percentage or the specified amount of the notional pool depend on a formula which can not be determined at the time of writing the scheme .
5 Some of the parameters of the NPV technique can not be determined with certainty .
6 However , he makes the point that the faithfulness of a church can not be determined on its actual growth , because that is determined by a range of contextual factors outside of the control of the congregation .
7 The groundmass mineralogy of lateritised Permian volcanics from Devon can not be determined by optical petrography but is clearly shown by chemical mapping with an automated electron microprobe .
8 What I am arguing here is that the meaning of a linguistic feature can not be determined outside its context .
9 Rather , what this chapter has been concerned to make clear is that the potential impact of records of achievement , as well as that of the GCSE , can not be determined without making reference to both initiatives .
10 Although the masses m of the two objects can not be determined uniquely , some information can be obtained from the mass function , calculated from only two observables , the projected pulsar semi-major axis a p sin i , and the orbital period , where subscripts p and c refer to the pulsar and companion respectively and i is the unknown inclination angle of the orbit to the plane of the sky .
11 Although the inclination angle can not be determined , the a priori probability that it is less than must be at least and has 95% probability of being less than .
12 The true prevalence of the visual finding of endometriosis can not be determined at present because such studies require random operative intervention and are therefore unethical .
13 How many of the 200 knights should be counted as members of Lisiard of Amboise 's household can not be determined ; the number is rather more what one might expect of the household of a great prince .
14 A grant for an uncertain term which takes the form of a yearly tenancy which can not be determined by the landlord does not create a lease .
15 Although the incidence of intentional or malicious ignition in warehousing can not be determined precisely , it would be unwise in the extreme to fail to take this cause of fire into account .
16 They can not be determined nationally ; only a political and administrative system that is close to the local population , and responsive to it , can match services to this diversity of preference .
17 While one can point to broad influences upon the formation of individual and group goals , in pluralist studies goals are more frequently treated as problematic — they can not be determined on a priori grounds through examining objective circumstances .
18 Outbound timing is initiated over the fix and at the abeam position — if the abeam position can not be determined — timing from abeam must be taken to be when the outbound turn is completed .
19 It is to say that whether it has done so can not be determined by asking whether the statute requires a certain state of facts to exist before a decision is reached : all statutes always do this .
20 It must be emphasised that the question whether or not such conduct is now covered by section 5 can not be determined by this statement of governmental intentions .
21 As he said , it makes some criticism of the European dimension , but in paragraph 8 headed ’ Europe ’ it also says : ’ While local government structure in the UK can not be determined by the nature of European structural funds and the case for regional authorities with power over service delivery has not been made out , the European dimension must nonetheless be considered in the longer term . ’
22 It is given the symbol U. The absolute value of the internal energy of a system can not be determined experimentally .
23 Many reaction enthalpies can not be determined experimentally because the reactions can not be brought about in the laboratory .
24 Bond enthalpies can not be determined directly by thermochemical methods .
25 Lattice enthalpies can not be determined directly .
26 Although the source of the light production giving rise to the chemiluminescence signal can not be determined definitively , our present data and data from Simmonds et al suggest that increases in reactive oxygen species generated by neutrophils are in fact an important source .
27 The clinical and biological profiles of Zollinger-Ellison sydrome patients who develop fundic ECL cell tumours can not be determined from the study of such a small number of cases .
28 As Marslen-Wilson ( 1986 ) has pointed out , the concept of a recognition point , i.e. the point at which a word becomes discriminable within the language system , can not be determined for a word in isolation .
29 This is normally set at the purchase price or the upper limit of the price if this can not be determined at completion .
30 The truth of that observation can not be determined ; what is beyond question , however , is that violence in our town centres has become so common that it is an expected , almost accepted , feature of urban life .
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