Example sentences of "it can [not/n't] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conclusion derived from this is that if an object is such that in principle it can not be referred to directly and unequivocally with a simple symbol , only described , then it can not qualify as a fundamental ontological existent . |
| 2 | The fact is that they hold the uterus open , which means that egg and sperm are allowed to unite , but the pregnancy is doomed because it can not be sustained without the uterus closing . |
| 3 | It can not be imposed from without . |
| 4 | If a libel is extremely serious , to the extent that a court is prepared to hold that it can not be compensated by money and deserves to be punished as a crime , its publisher may be made the target of a prosecution . |
| 5 | This outward aggression , however , if it can not be expressed to the object has to be turned inwards in depression , which is anger turned back upon the person . |
| 6 | It can not be achieved in practice . |
| 7 | However , although it can not be achieved in practice , the concept of an isolated system il important in estimating the maximum theoretical energy differences between a system and surroundings . |
| 8 | Being-for-itself must be wholly body and it must be wholly consciousness ; it can not be united with a body . |
| 9 | It can not be supported by evidence . |
| 10 | It can not be recalled in any coherent form . |
| 11 | A package can not be issued as a finished product if this is not done , and it can not be converted into a product at a later stage . |
| 12 | A package can not be issued as a finished product if this is not done , and it can not be converted into a product at a later stage . |
| 13 | ‘ Sundial may close if it can not be converted ’ The Sundial Hotel in Northallerton may close if it can not be converted into a nursing home , it was claimed this week . |
| 14 | It can not be given to many scientists to be outstanding as experimenter , technical innovator and teacher ; Kuypers was unquestionably all of these . |
| 15 | It can not be given in consideration of any sum under £30 . |
| 16 | Those opposed to the ordination of women to the priesthood maintain that it can not be seen as a legitimate development because it is ‘ closely related to the central doctrines of the Christian faith ’ . |
| 17 | However , it can not be seen as a new problem area . |
| 18 | If a caution was required , it can not be dispensed with simply to facilitate the operation . |
| 19 | Since it can not and will not save itself , it can not be saved by anything you or I might do . |
| 20 | It can not be concluded from this , however , that the economic dependency of the elderly population has increased . |
| 21 | For example , if we wish to delete the information that Martin is studying B742 , it can not be done without deleting the information that Prof. Harris teaches the module B742 . |
| 22 | ‘ While people are cautious about a lot of developments in Europe , rightly so , and while they are looking for British advantage , rightly so , they realise it can not be done from the back of the class . |
| 23 | Stephen Taylor , the consultancy 's chairman , says : ‘ The problem with building the empowered organisation is that it can not be done by the methods of the command organisation . |
| 24 | It is only through education that any change is possible in this area ; it can not be done by force , and at one stroke , as was attempted in the French and Russian Revolutions . |
| 25 | I think so , there 's got to be one person I mean I thought about this long and hard and there 's just no way , it can not be done by committee it would not work cos then |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ This is n't as lot of work if many people are involved , but it can not be done by just a handful . ’ |
| 28 | Gamma is an orange star of type K ; telescopically it is a fine binary , but it can not be split with binoculars . |
| 29 | In the Midlands and south of England values average out at roughly £20-£30 per thousand acres , but although this represents an average of about 6d. an acre — which was near enough the going rate for rent — it can not be employed as a general conversion factor , for while it may be applicable to a county or other major division , the ratios for individual parishes and hamlets are subject to extreme variations . |
| 30 | Expressed differently , if a thing exists genuinely in se ( i.e. if it is a true substance ) , then a description of its defining features can not involve references to anything outside that thing ; by the same token , if what purports to be a description of a substance involves references to different substances , then it can not be regarded as a genuine description of any substance . |