Example sentences of "they can not be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are bad news in a block of flats , and they ca n't be relied on . |
| 2 | ‘ Bands bigger than us have got a responsibility — they ca n't be messing with the kids ! |
| 3 | ‘ No , they ca n't be killed at all , or at least not in this dimension . |
| 4 | Although capillary fittings can be ‘ dry assembled ’ and the position of pipes marked , they ca n't be adjusted in this way after installation . |
| 5 | Er so I mean that c because er I mean they the steel balls and steel rollers go into the bin I mean they ca n't be used for anything . |
| 6 | Now remember they 're not they ca n't be counted as your boss |
| 7 | They ca n't be faked by simply changing your motion , or anything like that . |
| 8 | Now that the Apple Computer Inc v Microsoft Corp lawsuit has been defanged and the only thing standing between Bill Gates and world domination is the Federal Trading Commission — see page three : there may be more truth than not in the observation that Microsoft wants IBM to have OS/2 so they ca n't be accused of being a monopoly . |
| 9 | If you are using these , keep them where they ca n't be tampered with . |
| 10 | This will account for the fact that although it is the obvious lesson of Darwinism that species mutate , they can not be said to be aware of this nor in any sense to change themselves . |
| 11 | There are even those who ask why they can not be inspected by those who advise them . |
| 12 | This , together with the self–selecting nature of the sample , means that while the findings can aid understanding of the factors involved they can not be generalised to the wider population . |
| 13 | All behaviouristic theories of cognition are viciously third-personal , where that expression signifies , first , that they can not be applied to the first-person perspective and , second that our ability to apply them to the third person really rests on our bringing to bear first-person knowledge : as with rats in mazes , where my plain and unreduced apprehension of the rat 's environment enables me to see its grasp of that environment in terms of its behaviour within it . |
| 14 | Data analysis techniques were largely developed to cater for the implementation of database systems , although that does not mean that they can not be applied to non-database situations . |
| 15 | If there is a single currency and economies get out of line , they can not be adjusted by movements of the exchange rate , which is the normal way — so what happens ? |
| 16 | Acts like eating , sexual intercourse , and fighting are embedded in a socially shared set of associated symbols , and they can not be isolated from this semantic setting . |
| 17 | They can not be invoked against persons ‘ knowingly concerned in the contravention . ’ |
| 18 | Some risks are so great that they can not be tolerated under any circumstances , while others are so low that they can be tolerated without further justification ; between these extremes , assessment is needed . |
| 19 | Not all bishops were employed by the king and some of them had acquired their sees in the face of royal opposition ; they can not be dismissed as king 's men . |
| 20 | These deposits are then frozen — they can not be withdrawn by the banks . |
| 21 | Although every parent has the right in the fullness of time to decide whether he or she feels they can cope with their child , they can not be placed in a position of absolute power over its life if they have an extremely misleading impression of the form that that child 's life might take . |
| 22 | They can not be fixed in advance but are conditional on context because they relate not to sentences but to utterances . |
| 23 | Then again , too many young people have been through the finals course , often at considerable financial hardship to themselves or their families , only to find that they can not be absorbed into a recession-hit profession . |
| 24 | Such players as Clive Allen and Tony Cottee are shockingly under-valued these days because they can not be relied upon to step up their work-rate , to coin a phrase . |
| 25 | Furthermore , these circumstances are said to be essentially heterogeneous , so that they can not be seen as aspects of one large contradiction ; each is a contradiction within a particular social totality . |
| 26 | These features make the life of reconstituted families very complex ; they can not be seen as enclosed entities in the same way as cereal-packet nuclear families are . |
| 27 | These eggs are so small they can not be seen with the naked eye . |
| 28 | In these circumstances they can not be seen to be sacrificing their independence for that would undermine their claims to being objective in taking decisions at work . |
| 29 | They can not be seen from the village , but are visible from Anglesey across the Menai Strait . |
| 30 | PI : Locks Warranty : In addition to withdrawing keys from locks , the keys must now also be placed where they can not be seen by a would be thief . |