Example sentences of "it can [not/n't] be [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 However , it can not be denied that incompetent side-slipping and sideslipping close to the ground can cause accidents .
2 It can not be denied that we need more resources to improve the quality of life of very frail older people .
3 Many of the shortcomings of the eastern type are similar to those of the western , but it can not be denied that it is the immensely complicated nature alone of the eastern Buddhism , Hinduism and their derivatives that is sufficient to make them equally useless as a basis of a religion of the character that mankind needs .
4 Tradition maintains that many of the Campbells warned Macdonalds in time for them to escape but it can not be denied that on that winter morning in Glencoe many of the Clan Campbell plumbed the depths of treachery and horror .
5 It can not be denied that air pollution needs to be addressed but we should n't be fooled into paying more of our hard-earned cash which will be used to pay for Mr Lamont 's bungles .
6 Professor James Torrance , I know , sees this as a weakness in Calvinism , and it can not be denied that , despite the Reformation , a great deal of this legalism passed over into Protestantism .
7 It can not be denied that there is a streak of ‘ wish-fulfilment ’ in The Lord of the Rings .
8 Whilst not wishing to create visions of the past as a ‘ Golden Age ’ ( it was certainly not ) , it can not be denied that the main social trends in family organization , particularly since the Industrial Revolution , have increasingly served to isolate ageing people .
9 It can not be denied that rock has always been the province of men , even if they have often aped the female .
10 Although there may be more or less rigorous ways of doing this it can not be denied that the central activity is the same .
11 Although many questions in parliament about aircraft accidents are put in a genuine spirit of inquiry , it can not be denied that others are merely tabled in an attempt to embarrass the minister or government of the day .
12 Notwithstanding the unbridled optimism of many such visions , it can not be denied that one source of the modern idea of progress was this millenarian theology of puritan reformers anxious to transform the world in readiness for Christ 's second
13 It can not be denied that it would be splendid to see Luckie Mucklebackit , Edie Ochiltree , Wizard of the Moor or any other member of the Class in action once more , but the purists might object to a D11/1 being portrayed as a D11/2 .
14 But it can not be denied that they had neglected their fixed charities .
15 Whether or not we accept their view , it can not be denied that groups are always an important part of any developed political system .
16 It can not be denied that in the face of recession , publishers have been exploring all possible avenues for book sales . ’
17 However , even though the work described here is certainly concerned with grammar ( and not , for example , based on sociological data or on lexical classification ) , it can not be denied that it is remote from much of modern writing on grammar .
18 It can not be denied that Court–Country tensions did exist ; the question to consider is the extent to which they cut across party , and served to undermine the pattern of political allegiances mapped out above .
19 It can not be overstressed that in any particular circumstance most of the factors will be irrelevant and that one factor will tend to dominate the decision and determine the form of any particular sale .
20 It can not be overstressed that the purchaser and vendor should continue to consider the need for approvals and clearances throughout the course of negotiations as a change in the terms of the transaction may trigger the relevant legislation which regulates anti-competitive practices , mergers and the creation or expansion of monopolies .
21 It can not be overstressed that in every sale the reasonableness of the restrictive covenants must be considered in the particular circumstances .
22 However , it can not be said that the laws-of-war approach has resulted in clear and unambiguous agreement either among writers or among countries as to the precise restrictions to be placed on nuclear weapons use .
23 It can not be said that the result was entirely logical , and one is tempted to agree with a famous last-century astronomer , Sir John Herschel , that the constellations seem to have been drawn up so as to cause as much inconvenience as possible , but the system has become so well established that it is unlikely to be altered now .
24 However , wide as the law-making powers of proclamations were , it can not be said that under the Tudors they ever came near to replacing statute .
25 In an article written in support of the ordination of women to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church in the United States , Richard Norris , whose scholarship I have just mentioned , argues that the tenets of patristic Christology are such that it can not be said that a baptized woman is differently related than is a man to Jesus as the Christ .
26 And it can not be said that that is the union 's business as of generally recognised right to decide , or to share in deciding , that application .
27 But because the correspondence between graphological and phonological features is far from precise , it can not be said that a writer has actually represented the speech style of a character .
28 In summary , whether or not Fama and Jensen 's reasoning is right , it can not be said that more minuses in table 3.1 mean worse performance .
29 Despite the emphasis placed on this aspect of the division of labour by Marxists and non-Marxist sociologists alike , it can not be said that the division by strata forms the ‘ naturally ’ pertinent basis for social identification in capitalist societies .
30 At present , however , it can not be said that our system does this very effectively .
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