Example sentences of "[noun] can not [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Religion can not be divorced from morality in his view for it is belief in an ordered moral government of the universe and when we lose our basis in morality we cease to be religious . |
| 2 | The same does not apply to the view that religion can not be divorced from a form of morality . |
| 3 | The contrast between self-criticism in science and an uncritical spirit in religion can not be made absolute . |
| 4 | However , such performances can not be necessary conditions for such ascription , because of all those we would naturally deem conscious but who can not , for various reasons , provide them . |
| 5 | The child 's doing , the child 's active social experience and his own thinking and talking are the chief means of his education … words can not be substituted for things . |
| 6 | But although the attitudinist agrees with the intuitionist that the meaning of ethical words can not be exhaustively analysed in naturalistic or metaphysical terms he takes a more positive view of the kinds of definition which Moore was so concerned to refute , for he sees them as examples of a particular type of definition , which has a legitimate place in discourse . |
| 7 | Some words can not be pronounced at all until their meaning has been recognised . |
| 8 | Secondly , if the joke is so successful that it gets a lot of laughter you do not want to rush on so fast that your next words can not be heard . |
| 9 | New words can not be added to this class — hence its name . |
| 10 | the comprehension of speech is severely impaired ; sometimes even single spoken words can not be understood even though they are correctly perceived . |
| 11 | As a consequence , they dislike having to attend incidents at this time which are so serious that action can not be avoided . |
| 12 | The educational needs of people engaged in rural development action can not be met by present provisions . |
| 13 | It is not the same sort of task as that of the natural scientist in search of hidden causes , because the context of action can not be divorced from the actors ' understanding of the context . |
| 14 | It follows that , if what is being sought in this action against the third , fourth and fifth defendants is compensation for the loss suffered by the investors arising out of their purchases of or subscription for Euramco shares , the action can not be sustained . |
| 15 | In an economy as complicated as ours , action can not be taken very quickly , and any change in our national taxation system would take years to complete . |
| 16 | The statement of the principle of subsidiarity in the Maastricht text is in what would be a new Article 3B of the EEC Treaty , to the effect that ‘ in areas which do not fall within its exclusive competence ’ the Community should take action only if and so far as the objectives of the proposed action can not be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can , therefore , by reason of the scale or effects of the proposed action , be better achieved by the Community . |
| 17 | In areas which do not fall within its exclusive competence , the Community shall take action , in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity , only if and in so far as the objectives of the proposed action can not be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can therefore , by reason of the scale or effects of the proposed action , be better achieved by the Community . |
| 18 | This could be interpreted with reference to Article 3B , ‘ the objectives of the proposed action can not be … achieved by the Member States ’ and the principle of subsidiarity would thus provide no obstacle to the Community 's action . |
| 19 | According to Article 3B , ‘ the Community shall take action … only if and in so far as the objectives of the proposed action can not be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can … be better achieved by the Community ’ . |
| 20 | A new article in the treaty declared that the EC would act " only if and in so far as the objectives of the proposed action can not be sufficiently achieved by the member states " . |
| 21 | This action can not be interpreted as an inhibition by stauro sporine of negative modulation of the histamine H 2 receptor by a basal activity of protein kinase C because similar effects were found with gastric inhibitory polypeptide , the action of which was not inhibited by activation of protein kinase C. Finally 1-oleoyl-2-acetyl-glycerol , a diacylglycerol analogue which activates protein kinase C in intact cells , inhibited histamine stimulation of cyclic AMP content in HGT-1 cells at a concentration at which it inhibited histamine stimulated aminopyrine accumulation in partietal cells . |
| 22 | This means that an action can not be founded on a bad cause . |
| 23 | However , the nature of the state 's action can not be understood solely by reference to what happens outside the state . |
| 24 | However , the causal influence of such characteristics can not be considered by itself , and must be investigated in the context of particular societies . |
| 25 | From this point of view , societal characteristics can not be explained as the product of actors ' choices , since these choices are themselves the product of socialisation . |
| 26 | The tendency of the mind to move from one thing to another has to consist in the straightforward fact that one thing usually follows , or is caused by , the other ; the tendency or association can not be thought of as some experienced feature of the situation without reviving the original situation of having an unanalysed conception of the mind 's ability to reach out and apprehend things . |
| 27 | But he warns that the ideas of civil association and enterprise association can not be understood as complementary characteristics ; they each stand for an independent , self-sustaining mode of association . |
| 28 | In the Brechtian aesthetic , the real struggles of life and oppressed peoples can not be shown , as it were , naturally . |
| 29 | Yet , a full picture of Arab political humour truly reflecting the psychology , thought and politics of the Arab peoples can not be adequately drawn without covering the entire span of Arab history , at least from the rise of Islam . |
| 30 | Likewise they implicitly assume that over the medium-term ( 3-10 years ) , the supply side can not be assumed to be constant . |