Example sentences of "that can not be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is apparently no graphological device , whether of spelling , punctuation , capitalization , etc , that can not be exploited for such purposes . |
| 2 | The decision to create a socialist economy and the consequences that flow from that can not be placed upon the same level as the results of unconscious decisions and actions ( at the macro level ) which result in equilibrium for a commodity-capitalist economy , since the later is post hoc , whilst the former is the result of the initial decision to build a socialist economy . |
| 3 | His devotion to music seems in fact to have been even stronger than his feeling for words : " there are times when everything … that can not be grasped in terms of musical relations actually fills me with disgust and horror " . |
| 4 | There are no phenomena , no " occult " mental properties , he argues , that can not be analysed in a physical causal context . |
| 5 | Both these cases might be decided similarly on the Seymour test , but that can not be said of Lamb ( 1967 ) . |
| 6 | That can not be said of the SNP , which campaigned with zest and intelligence , and yet finds itself with only the same three seats that it won in 1987 . |
| 7 | He does indeed regard the latter case as a splitting of the name " Balak , king of Moab " across two lines ( he calls it " binomination " ) , but that can not be said of the former case . |
| 8 | That can not be said to be a full description of reason within the disciplines , for they can not be sustained without values and judgement . |
| 9 | That can not be done on an on-off basis . |
| 10 | I think , Bill , really you far be it for me to try and teach you your job , but you ought to have perhaps gone back a little bit and wondered why we were all in this position , because you have us in year after year talking about budgets that are made and budgets which improve services , and and we need to be absolutely clear that this budget does not improve services at all , that this budget does very severe damage to services , that the budget that has gone through the Council identifies nearly eight million pounds taken off service provision erm and that can not be done under the Conservatives by making erm a budget with the Liberal Democrats have proved that it ca n't be done , in spite of their previous comments , without pain to services . |
| 11 | Sales in the years after that can not be forecast with any accuracy . |
| 12 | That can not be judged to be fair or equitable . ’ |
| 13 | That can not be described as a poor performance . |
| 14 | The last three may be combined in so-called grand unified theories , or GUTs , which are not very satisfactory because they do not include gravity and because they contain a number of quantities , like the relative masses of different particles , that can not be predicted from the theory but have to be chosen to fit observations . |
| 15 | And I would urge all intending applicants to give very serious thought to what sort of person they are , to what their real academics interests are , and to what sort of institution they want to attend , and to recognise at the outset that that can not be gleaned from any one compendium or any one adviser . |
| 16 | There 's a common interest of course of avoiding war for most people anyway , but there 's also a common interest we know related to environmental issues and that can not be dealt with by each country , each country may have unique environmental problems but environmental problems straddle erm boundaries of countries as we saw from the Chernobyl problem of some years ago . |
| 17 | And the implications of that can not be catered for by opinion polls . |
| 18 | That can not be compromised in any way so I shall still be as hard as ever in the ring . ’ |
| 19 | That can not be blamed on social factors . |