Example sentences of "can not 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 .
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