Example sentences of "can not [adv] [be] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One problem of assignment has already been encountered : in Chapter 9 we saw how , although and are clearly distinct in most contexts , there are other contexts where we find a sound which can not clearly be said to belong to one or other of these two phonemes . |
| 2 | ( Well , she thought , we can not surely be meant to play together ? |
| 3 | If you can not reasonably be expected to vote in person on polling day you can apply for an absent vote . |
| 4 | that the respondent has behaved in such a way that the petitioner can not reasonably be expected to live with him ( or her ) ; |
| 5 | that the respondent has behaved in such a way that the applicant can not reasonably be expected to live with the respondent ; or |
| 6 | That the respondent has behaved in such a way that the petitioner can not reasonably be expected to live with the respondent . |
| 7 | A counter-notice which must be served within 21 days after service of the Notice , should only be given where it is required that the party whose statement it is sought to admit , should be called as a witness , but there are witnesses who can not , or should not be called , that is if dead , beyond the seas , or unfit to attend , or who can not after reasonable diligence be identified , or can not reasonably be expected to have any recollection ; consequently in respect of all those persons , the opposing party is not entitled to serve a counter-notice requiring such person to be called unless he can contend that the person can , or should be called . |
| 8 | There are five specific reasons for not calling a witness given in r25 — namely , that the witness is dead or beyond the seas or unfit by reason of bodily or mental condition to attend as a witness or that , despite the exercise of reasonable diligence , it has not been possible to identify or find him or that he can not reasonably be expected to have any recollection of matters relevant to the accuracy or otherwise of the statement . |
| 9 | But blessings can not simply be expected to come along in disguise . |
| 10 | The Benue Rift deposits are spread out along 600 km , so they can not yet be said to have been adequately characterised , but the technical , stylistic , compositional and lead isotope evidence now points to the Igbo-Ukwu bronzes originating within Nigeria . |
| 11 | Of course , where politicians are denied control , they can not normally be expected to assume accountability , thus undermining the principle that public administration should be publicly accountable . |
| 12 | A less ominous formulation would be ‘ accountable to the community ’ ; yet , formulate it as we may , the notion can not confidently be said to afford a guarantee of efficiency , if the control or the accountability is to relate to its performance as business in operation . |
| 13 | They can not easily be used to describe those events outside of us , like our social circumstances or what psychiatrists call ‘ life events ’ , that have such a critical impact on our emotions . |
| 14 | The informal interview can not generally be used to test hypotheses very accurately , but it can be used most fruitfully to clarify them and to elaborate them . |
| 15 | But the fact remains that while local authorities demonstrate their continued inability to use the resources that are already at their disposal , when so many Labour-controlled authorities can not even be bothered to collect the huge sums in uncollected rent , I can not see why the hon. Gentleman should be concerned about the level of rents . |
| 16 | Can my right hon. Friend arrange a debate on local government finance in London , so that we may discuss the growing evidence that Labour councils , far from struggling to provide services , can not even be bothered to collect millions of pounds of rates and of community charge still owing to them ? |
| 17 | But London hotels can not expect to go on charging high prices when they can not even be bothered to welcome guests in their own language . |
| 18 | The right hon. Gentleman can not even be bothered to pass on his information to the Home Office or the police , yet he extrapolates from that that there is a massive amount of fraud and a refugee and immigration racket . |
| 19 | The reason is that this is cash that banks are likely to need anyway , and which can not therefore be used to meet an increase in demand for cash . ) |
| 20 | Gastric emptying tests can not therefore be used to make the diagnosis , although they can , nevertheless yield results consistentwith the diagnosis . |
| 21 | Western technology has been made to assume a burden which it can not fairly be expected to carry . |
| 22 | But those of us in the recycling business must take issue with the statement from the British Plastics Federation that recycled plastics can not safely be used to package food . |
| 23 | Moreover I firmly believe that children can not satisfactorily be taught to read in two languages at the same time and that they will be better English readers if they learn it after they have mastered the skill in their mother tongue . |
| 24 | Redcliffe-Maud summed up : ‘ Size can not statistically be proved to have a very important effect on performance ’ ( Redcliffe-Maud 1969 , Vol . |
| 25 | The claim that none of our beliefs about the future are ever justified is more important and more interesting than the claim that although our belief that the sun will rise tomorrow is quite probably both true and justified , we can not really be said to know that the sun will rise tomorrow . |
| 26 | Even employees who come into personal , face to face contact with the employer 's trade connections , can not always be said to have sufficient quality of contact . |
| 27 | Struggles about language are long drawn-out : speakers can not always be brought to see the point of innovations , still less the virtue in them . |
| 28 | Often innkeepers will make exceptional arrangements for such persons as a gesture of goodwill ( e.g. letting them sleep in the lounge ) , but they can not legally be required to do so . |
| 29 | This consumption spending must represent the floor below which the level of income can not realistically be expected to fall . |
| 30 | However , this patient group will include some individuals with severely compromised left ventricular function in whom insertion of an ICD may prevent sudden death but can not realistically be expected to extend overall survival . |