Example sentences of "can [not/n't] be [vb pp] [prep] other " in BNC.
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1 | In the former , Service departments are asked to list their lowest priority items , and to state the implications of their demise if the books can not be balanced by other means . |
2 | But the composition of the total expected return is important for tax purposes : coupon payments are taxed as income ; capital gains are not subject to taxation , capital losses can not be offset against other taxable income . |
3 | Any complex subjects which are not present in the scheme must be placed in a more general category where they can not be distinguished from other subjects . |
4 | It has also been suggested that rape in marriage can not be compared to other forms of rape , since the effect on the victim must needs be far less traumatic . |
5 | As was recognized in the US in the 1960s ( David , 1965 ) , the social services have the potential for providing rewarding and socially useful employment for a large proportion of the work-force that can not be absorbed by other sectors of the labour market . |
6 | Yet whether we think of ourselves as secularist or as religious , we can not be absolutely certain in such a way that our certainty can not be challenged by other people . |
7 | Now the detailed structure of these lexical sets in English and French , although of intense concern to students of English and French , can not be generalised to other sets ; nor can the semantic contrast ‘ have an experience in a particular perceptual mode ’ v . |
8 | Initially , then , on being approached to promote an order , it is the task of the agent to confirm that the order is in fact viable , that is to say , that the objects of the order can not be achieved without an order confirmed by parliament — that it can not be done by other means . |
9 | The arts enable us to assert ideas and judgments which we may recognize collectively to be true which can not be proved in other ways , through empirical experiment , for instance . |
10 | To sum up what I have outlined so far , the view of Wimsatt and Brooks is that the essential property of poetry consists in the reconciliation of harmonization of opposites ; that this takes the form of an objective organization of the objective meanings of words ; and that although the same organization generally can not be found in other kinds of discourse , it nonetheless contributes to our knowledge and experience of ourselves and of the world . |
11 | These extra cards can only be used by that shaman — they can not be used by other shamans . |
12 | This extra card can only be used by that shaman — the card can not be used by other shamans . |
13 | And , secondly , local economic strategies have shown that the economy can not be abstracted from other sets of relationships within society . |
14 | The mean age of their population , however , was high and the results can not be extrapolated to other patient groups . |