Example sentences of "can not be allowed " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that the police are essentially an organization constrained by an ingrained respect for the pragmatism of action — regardless of the lip-service paid to the police college , the ‘ special course ’ , or the university scholarship — it was inevitable that the hierarchy would follow the dictates of institutional philosophy and pull the marginal mover in from the periphery ; for there is a boundary beyond which the pilgrim can not be allowed to stray . |
| 2 | There are some circumstances where for health and safety reasons alcohol can not be allowed at all . |
| 3 | But since ministers , including the Prime Minister , are so fond of using statistics for the purposes of debate , they can not be allowed to make the contradictory claim that these figures are irrelevant . |
| 4 | It can not be allowed to drift into complacency . |
| 5 | Radio and television can not be allowed ; newspapers can be delivered — but always slightly out-of-date and at random intervals so that no cues as to the passage of outside time are given . |
| 6 | Things can not be allowed to go on as they are . |
| 7 | PR , they say , can not be allowed to obscure the other changes which Labour must make : a drastic reduction in the influence of the trade unions , which voters find increasingly repellent , and recruitment of a broader basis of support . |
| 8 | The position I have tried to adopt is that whilst the atheist must demand clarity , the theist can argue that the nature of his or her task necessitates a use of language that is bound to be criticised as unusual , although it can not be allowed to be contradictory . |
| 9 | Claims of rights to unearned privileges , in any of the manifold walks of life , will always be a source of much conflict and , above all can not be allowed to form part of any religion . |
| 10 | Early in marriage a re-ordering of priorities is necessary , and some couples can run into trouble if their commitment to , or dependence upon , healthy robust parents can not be allowed to take second place to their commitment to their new partner . |
| 11 | This silly and childlike regressive behaviour can not be allowed to go on in a relationship in which a couple care for one another . |
| 12 | It can not be allowed to go on , and with your help perhaps it wo n't . |
| 13 | It is an overstatement typical of the worst type of ‘ leap of faith ’ and can not be allowed to pass . |
| 14 | There is also the point that district society presidents are all volunteers and work very hard for the good of the district society and the Institute and it is a pity if they can not be allowed some enjoyment from their endeavours and also make new friendships which will last a lifetime . |
| 15 | On the assumption that the economic inequality between the North and the South , the ‘ haves ’ and the ‘ have-nots ’ , can not be allowed to continue , capitalism comes under attack as the engine providing the force to sustain such inequality . |
| 16 | It can not be allowed to happen . |
| 17 | That can not be allowed to happen . |
| 18 | This year the Chancellor has been insisting that the pound can not be allowed to go any lower , because of the dangers of inflation ; and he has allowed the Bank of England to give a strong endorsement of his argument . |
| 19 | While there may be agreement about the lowest levels , below which standards can not be allowed to fall without grave risk to the old person and probably others , individual workers may have very different views and opinions about the acceptability of certain degrees of domestic and personal neglect . |
| 20 | Are we to conclude therefore that eminence can not be allowed as a yardstick of creativity ? |
| 21 | It now falls between all stools and can not be allowed to suffer a lingering death any longer . |
| 22 | Notwith-standing the relativity of the concept , this situation surely indicates a lack of clarity or mutual agreement about the nature of special educational needs , which can not be allowed to continue . |
| 23 | Astrology can not be allowed as a serious contribution to living because it fails empirically in relation to the natural world , and could be foolish , or dangerous , in political and economic affairs . |
| 24 | Nor , more modestly , does it provide any reason why the Treasury , responsible for the ultimate public obligation to pick up the bill for public bodies which can not be allowed to default , should exercise a prudential interest in its performance . |
| 25 | Because the problem program is under the control of the supervisor , it can not be allowed unrestricted access to all the facilities provided by the computer . |
| 26 | However , they can not be allowed to operate as completely autonomous or ad hoc bodies . |
| 27 | But it is never simply a formal abstraction , for the female nude is also seen as a testimony to feelings , traces of desires which , whilst they can not be allowed to dominate , are never entirely absent . |
| 28 | Revenge attacks however grave the provocation , can not be allowed ; the law must view them seriously . |
| 29 | Mr. Watkinson accepted that the closing words of section 69(1) place a difficulty in his way , but he maintained that this difficulty can not be allowed to outweigh the clear words of Lord Bridge of Harwich . |
| 30 | Whilst the specified motion of a point can be obtained on the drawing board , the successful working of the mechanism train as a whole will also depend on the geometric shapes of individual linkages and surrounding components ; components can not be allowed to clash or be made to disassemble and re-assemble to pass through points of impossible geometry . |