Example sentences of "therefore can not [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The most common type of LPG gas is butane , but it does not vaporise — so therefore can not burn — at temperatures below about 4°C .
2 will continue to evolve in the future , and therefore can not exist in its current form forever
3 I therefore can not tell you how annoyed I was to read Ken Pringle 's article ‘ Gender politics ’ ( 4 March ) .
4 I have made mention elsewhere of the sense that warns us of impending danger , and will not labour the subject further beyond stating that this sense is a very real one and that I do not know , and therefore can not explain , what brings it into operation .
5 Compensation for the loss of goodwill payments may be offered inter alia by : ( 1 ) consultancy arrangements , which guarantee the outgoing partner an income in return for a reduced work load , but do not survive his death and therefore can not benefit his dependants ; ( 2 ) annuities for himself and his family payable out of the firm 's profits , which are fiscally unattractive and can place undue strain on the firm 's finances ; and ( 3 ) guaranteeing the partner nearing retirement a generous level of income overriding , in a bad year , his strict entitlement under the agreed profit sharing ratios ; but the reluctance of younger partners to accept such arrangement may easily be imagined .
6 Someone hiring goods under a hire-purchase agreement is not a ‘ buyer ’ and therefore can not pass good title under either the Factors Act , section 9 or the Sale o Act , section 25 .
7 In the modern individual such a clearly defined and providential maternal version of the superego does not appear to emerge in quite the same way during and after the oral period , almost certainly because in individual history , unlike that of the culture , the oral period does not follow Oedipal resolution and therefore can not build on an already-existing superego .
8 We therefore can not comment on the use of supplemental oxygen in these patients .
9 We therefore can not comment .
10 Sometimes it can be difficult to decide whether a statement relates only to the future and therefore can not infringe section 14 or whether on the other hand it relates partly or entirely to some past or present fact .
11 Another claim is that a certain State has not become a party to a treaty , and therefore can not share in the distribution of values projected by it .
12 They therefore can not know the relative efficiency of different forms of work organisation , and these may in fact not have very much influence on levels of efficiency .
13 The United Kingdom therefore can not argue on the basis of the fact that article 7 can only apply to discrimination between ships if they are of different ‘ nationalities ’ in order to justify differences in treatment between natural or legal persons of different nationalities .
14 The cannon therefore can not fire either this turn or the next turn .
15 He knows that we are often very unsure what is the will of God , and therefore can not pray with clarity and confidence about it .
16 I therefore can not find that in this respect the procedure adopted by the Secretary of State was challengeable in any way .
17 Scalar polynomial curvature singularities therefore can not occur .
18 However , in the solar pond the lower levels of water are more saline and heavier and therefore can not rise .
19 But in a stressed state , and especially if one is playing helpless , one can not see clearly what the opportunities and risks actually are , and one therefore can not act with discernment and intelligence .
20 I therefore can not submit the hon. Gentleman 's application to the House .
21 I therefore can not submit his application to the House today .
22 You are not an associated user for the DC(s) on the specified package and therefore can not submit the package for approval ( using option 1.5.1 ) or prepare the approval listings ( using option 1.5.2 ) .
23 I therefore can not accept the hon. Gentleman 's opening proposition .
24 The difficulties in which Althusser subsequently became enmeshed were the result of his ignoring Canguilhem 's warning that although the history of science takes science for its object , it is not itself a science , and therefore can not claim to be value-free ( or , in Marxist terms , non-ideological ) .
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