Example sentences of "can not be measured " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The support our volunteers provide can not be measured in purely practical terms and their continuing contribution is vital if we are to provide an ongoing service . |
| 2 | Demand can not be measured or estimated , but demand will materialise if a suitable product and marketing mix are introduced . |
| 3 | The radioactive potassium has a very long half-life ( 1250 million years ) so that the amount lost is extremely small relative to the total amount of potassium present and can not be measured . |
| 4 | This means that writing development must be defined in broad terms and can not be measured solely by one-off tests at particular ages . |
| 5 | It can not be measured by scientific instruments — and here we must leave it ! |
| 6 | Many teachers argue that the more important things that they are concerned with , the ‘ something more ’ , are qualities that can not be measured by tests of competence ; if teaching is geared to what can be measured , objectives in other words , then these important qualities will be omitted and both the teaching and students will be the poorer . |
| 7 | Few astronomers , if any , doubt that this process explains the redshift in the light of ordinary galaxies , and because observations of nearby galaxies ( whose distance can be measured in other ways ) show that their redshifts are proportional to their distances from us , it is assumed that measuring the redshift of a very remote object , whose distance can not be measured directly , tells us how far away it is . |
| 8 | Until such time as the long overdue rationalization of obscenity and indecency legislation takes place the Association 's resolve can not be measured , but some sustained lobbying on the idiosyncrasies of censorship law would not be amiss . |
| 9 | ‘ Many sub-units of companies simply can not be measured by revenue , contributions to profits , or costs related to output units … for a department of this kind , the best and perhaps the only measure of performance is achievement of predetermined programmes within budgets . ’ |
| 10 | Such values can not be measured by numbers ( though Jeremy Bentham ( 1748–1832 ) , the founder of utilitarianism , thought that they could ) , but are no less real for all that . |
| 11 | Spiritual achievements can not be measured — these are in the hands of God . |
| 12 | Success can not be measured in material terms when such blinding indulgence overrides the enjoyment of physical wellbeing . |
| 13 | Linguistic ability can not be measured directly , but only via elicitation procedures which attempt to make visible a certain aspect of a child 's language . |
| 14 | But success can not be measured merely in numbers of offspring . |
| 15 | Anything that can not be measured does not exist . |
| 16 | Diffusing knowledge and acquiring it are as much an art as a science , processes influenced by variables which can not be measured as much as by those which can . |
| 17 | Most importantly , effectiveness can not be measured in the generality ; it has to be seen in the context of what each firm is trying to achieve . |
| 18 | The endowment of religious houses and other institutions , though greatly reduced until the end of the century , was thereafter far from contained by this statute and can not be measured simply by the licences enrolled in chancery , since various devices were employed to circumvent the law . |
| 19 | Though tasks may be clearly stated ( school visiting , crime prevention enquiries , contact with ethnic minorities , etc. ) , outcomes , not being tangible , can not be measured . |
| 20 | The contentious issues in the public sector are what is the appropriate discount rate to be used and what account should be taken of costs and benefits which can not be measured directly in money terms . |
| 21 | Though tasks may be clearly stated ( school visiting , crime prevention enquiries , contact with ethnic minorities , etc. ) outputs , not being tangible , can not be measured . |
| 22 | We agree that success of medical genetics can not be measured by the number of terminated pregnancies , any more than the success of surgery can be measured by the number of lower limbs amputated in patients with vascular stenosis . |
| 23 | The basic postulate of this is the Heisenberg uncertainty principle , which states that certain pairs of quantities , such as the position and momentum of a particle , can not be measured simultaneously with arbitrary accuracy . |
| 24 | However , equality in language can not be measured purely in social terms . |
| 25 | If they can not be measured with any degree of objectivity , then effectiveness can only be judged in an incomplete way . |
| 26 | Therefore there is clearly some on-going benefit from such a campaign which can not be measured by the number of enquiries received . |
| 27 | The fruits of European Union can not be measured solely in terms of GDP . |
| 28 | The misery which unemployment inflicts on human lives can not be measured ; but its impact on the Exchequer was all too calculable . |
| 29 | Also reflux provoked by postural changes such as stopping can not be measured by this method . |
| 30 | Conventionally , cholesterol crystal nucleation times are measured in gall bladder bile obtained by needle aspiration at the time of surgery : they can not be measured reliably in bile rich duodenal fluid . |