Example sentences of "can not be [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scatter at the high end — small numbers of authors publishing large numbers of papers — is so large that a straight line can not be fitted to this graph with any degree of confidence . |
| 2 | The scatter at the high end — small numbers of authors publishing large numbers of papers — is so large that a straight line can not be fitted to this graph with any degree of confidence . |
| 3 | Data analysis techniques were largely developed to cater for the implementation of database systems , although that does not mean that they can not be applied to non-database situations . |
| 4 | While the double-blind trial is well suited to testing of conventional drugs it often can not be applied to complementary therapies , for instance , the acupuncturist must establish a close link with the patient during treatment , and the therapist must know which points he is needling and possibly modify them as the patient 's responses change . |
| 5 | If balance is important it can not be limited to public television . |
| 6 | As safety in shared spaces is currently sought by short sight lines , this variant of the principle can not be extended to residential roads in general . |
| 7 | On flat surfaces this action is minimised by laying a carpet of light-reflective white limestone chippings on the asphalt , but this treatment can not be extended to sloping sections or to roofs carrying regular foot-traffic . |
| 8 | The most common criticism of HARPY is that its approach can not be extended to larger vocabularies and/or more habitable grammars . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Considerably lesser wines , however , are made from an isolated plot of vines around the south-western edge of Ambonnay — obviously these vines can not be compared to those situated north of the village . |
| 11 | It applies to all those thoughts of the human mind which are real enough to the thinker , but which can not be converted to physical things and detected by the five senses of sight , hearing , touch , taste and smell . |
| 12 | It can not be given to many scientists to be outstanding as experimenter , technical innovator and teacher ; Kuypers was unquestionably all of these . |
| 13 | Furthermore , the conclusions reached through therapeutic work with some patients can not be generalized to all mankind , or to human beings in very different cultural and social circumstances from those on whom the therapy was carried out . |
| 14 | South Africa is a large and complex country where conditions in one place can not be generalized to those in another . |
| 15 | The origin and symbolic meaning of some individual motifs and designs are well documented , but the majority can not be traced to any undisputed source , and a number of conflicting mythologies have grown up around them . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In ethno-linguistic terms the ‘ oldest ’ peoples of Siberia are those speaking the ‘ Palaeoasiatic , languages , which can not be related to any known families of languages outside Siberia . |
| 18 | But these inconveniences can not be related to those which could result at a given moment from the capture by the enemy of three or four battalions , with a loss , by consequence , of several thousands of men . |
| 19 | Please ensure that all money submitted , whether as cash or cheque , by hand or by post is accompanied by a clear statement as to what it represents e.g. Q.T. fees , payment for music lessons , subscriptions to the Society , donations etc. etc — because , one an amount has been credited to a certain account it can not be transferred to another . |
| 20 | At the time of writing , synthetic insulin — which to the scientist is chemically identical to that secreted in the pancreas — can not be administered to diabetic people because it simply does not work ; yet pig 's insulin injected into the human body does ! |
| 21 | their demand for control can not be restricted to one of self-government within the enterprise , but it will have to aim at the development of a complex institutional system that will be able to strike a balance between the need for worker autonomy within the enterprise on the one hand , and the need for economic co-ordination at higher economic levels on the other . |
| 22 | This ideal management , however , can not be offered to most patients , who will either not be on a transplant programme or who may be too ill for such a radical procedure . |
| 23 | On the contrary , it is time to treat religion as something strange and outside the ordinary run of life , something which , mysteriously , has had a vast effect on people , over which wars were fought and people were burned and persecuted , and which still has an effect on people ; something which can not be reduced to mere kindness at the old people 's parties or village jumble sales , but which has inspired some of the most splendid painting , writing , music , and architecture ever to be produced by the human imagination , and is still capable of producing martyrdom , cruelty , and sectarian passion . |
| 24 | That argument showed that knowledge of the external world can not be reduced to behavioural dispositions , for the very idea of a disposition functions only in the context of an unreduced grasp on the physical world . |
| 25 | The balance-of-payments problem plainly can not be reduced to one of ‘ how to pay for essential imports ’ . |
| 26 | We must keep constantly in mind the idea that since these two aspects of the body are on different and incommunicable levels of being , they can not be reduced to one another . |
| 27 | As a result , each artist was chosen for at least four reasons , but with a common denominator : we decided to present individuals operating from an independent position , whose work has a certain degree of complexity and can not be reduced to one or two key ideas . |
| 28 | The field of economic policy is very wide and can not be reduced to budgetary policy . |
| 29 | To say that these factors of context , conjuncture and wider conditionality are ‘ extra-discursive ’ does not mean that discourses do not enter into their determination , only that they involve processes which can not be reduced to this effect . |
| 30 | The EAGGF Guarantee and Guidance expenditure can be allocated , but administrative expenditure upon the institutions of the EC , or aid to Third World countries can not be allocated to particular member states . |