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

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1 A system thus can not create or destroy energy .
2 A critic walking for the first time into a gallery may describe a colour in a picture as blue ; it will have been the scrupulous task of a conservator to have established that the particular colour in question was Prussian blue , and thus can not date before the eighteenth century .
3 Some argue that the law in England vis-à-vis terminal patients does not meet the first of these criteria , and thus can not satisfy , ex hypothesi , the other two .
4 When we raise questions about truth and reality , we carry with us presumptions derived from the special sciences , and thus can not achieve transcendental reflection .
5 His deficit arises in a subsequent stage of attending to these figures , at which he neglects the left of figures wherever they appear , and thus can not judge explicitly whether they are symmetrical about the vertical .
6 However , another potential source of inequality , ‘ cream skimming ’ , which arises with HMOs is removed since , unlike HMOs , DHAs are compulsorily responsible for all residents and thus can not select only the lower risks .
7 Polymeric macromolecules have variable dimensions and thus can not pack closely together in a regular arrangement .
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