Example sentences of "not [conj] can not [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 The court will set aside a decision if it is taken by someone who is not or can not be appointed as the expert .
2 With the United States removed , at least temporarily , from the reprocessing marketplace , the possibility of the 450 spent fuel elements coming to Scotland should not and can not be dismissed .
3 Both parties have invited this court to proceed on the basis that the validity of the appointment is not and can not be disputed or decided on this application .
4 The Kingdom is not and can not be relegated to an appendix which follows the turning of the last page of world history .
5 This is something for which surveys , including that of Greeley and Rossi , are not and can not be intended .
6 Task analysis has not and can not be reduced to a set of standardised procedures which the aspiring analyst could acquire in a formal training course .
7 For Fanon this means that , despite Europe 's crimes , which will not and can not be forgotten , the Third World 's ‘ new history of Man ’ must ‘ have regard to the sometimes prodigious theses which Europe has put forward ’ since ‘ all the elements of a solution to the great problems of humanity have , at different times , existed in European thought ’ ( Wretched of the Earth , 253 — 4 ) .
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