Example sentences of "can [not/n't] be [verb] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , the same can not be said of British primary legislation , where ascertaining the date of commencement can be a substantial problem . |
| 2 | But the same can not be said of twentieth-century Christianity , which is why the type of doubt we are now considering is so prevalent . |
| 3 | My conception is related , also , in that both conceptions derive in a direct way from our pre-theoretical , first-person grasp of consciousness , as can not be said of any of behaviourism , causalism , or functionalism , nor really of the logico-linguistic criterion , derived though it is from Brentano . |
| 4 | The same can not be said of some other British universities , whose students are sometimes obliged to travel considerable distances to observe the raw materials to which their research relates . |
| 5 | The same can not be said of some other British universities , whose students are obliged to travel considerable distances to observe the raw materials to which their research relates . |
| 6 | And by doing so , The Accused rejects the assumptions of the other films , saying in effect that if this can not be said of this woman then it can never be said of any women in any situation . |
| 7 | A decision which has never had any legal effect can not be deprived of legal effect , and so when we say that certiorari quashes a decision which the decision-maker had no jurisdiction to make , what we really mean is that the order formally declares that from the moment it was purportedly made ( ‘ ab initio ’ ) the decision had no effect in law . |
| 8 | The Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 prescribes certain minimum periods of notice and Peter can not be deprived of this protection no matter what Frank Fairbrother says . |
| 9 | Though not resolving all problems , the Court of Appeal in Shelton ( 1986 ) 83 Cr App R 379 held : ( a ) if there is doubt as to whether the appropriate charge is theft or handling , both can be charged ; ( b ) the jury should be directed that a handler may also be a thief but he can not be convicted of both in relation to the same property at the same time ; and ( c ) if the jury can not agree whether theft or handling has been proved , the jury should be discharged . |
| 10 | If the accused is charged with s.47 , he can not be convicted of common assault : Mearns ( 1990 ) 91 Cr App R 312 ( CA ) and Savage ( HL ) . |
| 11 | It said that the ‘ benefit/cost ratio of Super-SARA is low and that , at the present time , the risk can not be discounted of substantial cost overruns . ’ |
| 12 | In the new circumstances , ministers may feel justified in taking a little longer to reach their conclusions so that they can not be accused of hasty actions which they might later regret . |
| 13 | And the Jockey Club can not be accused of headlong profligation of its long held principals , though Caulfield accuses them now of handing the rule book straight to the animal welfare groups . |
| 14 | What is indubitable is that they are used of effects , that they can not be used of unnecessitated events , and hence that effects as we understand them are not unnecessitated events . |
| 15 | ( Logs can not be taken of negative numbers . ) |
| 16 | Such understanding is necessary , not simply to assess realistically what can and can not be expected of such informal care , but also to develop the formal sector of care in a way which takes account of the prevailing norms of a given area . |