Example sentences of "[conj] can not [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has also set out some rules about which menu items can or can not be increased in price . |
| 2 | The adopter must fulfil one of the following requirements : be over 21 ; or be the parent of the adoptee , where the other natural parent is dead , or can not be found , or there is some other reason justifying the exclusion of the other natural parent . |
| 3 | Consequently , more time can be spent by the clearinghouse personnel on the sophisticated and time-consuming enquiries which require information and material that has not been or can not be conveniently added to the database , an those which are of an advisory nature . |
| 4 | For in those matters which are beyond the reach of absolute knowledge , it is within the province of man 's own responsibility to decide what , for the time being , can be or can not be accepted as truth , and , as there can be a Created God , so can that God be the product of created truth . |
| 5 | Once they believe you really are an innocent party — or can not be useful to them in finding the ship — then they 've no reason to keep your wife and daughter alive . |
| 6 | Almost by definition , crises are periods when the normally routinized operations of the bureaucracy are insufficient or can not be relied on , when decisions have to be quickly pushed up through the chain of command , and where unusually large and direct role in controlling policy implementation has to be taken by political leaders . |
| 7 | This does not mean that considerable economies have not been , or can not be , made . |
| 8 | The Act is perhaps not so clear where only the claimant with a possessory title is before the court , for example , because the true owner does not appear or can not be found . |
| 9 | Finally , a summary of policy issues raised and discussed during one academic year ( 1987–88 ) is used to demonstrate the pattern of contending interests and the extent to which they can or can not be accommodated . |
| 10 | This they consider ‘ a more accurate representation of the everyday notion of burden [ and ] a more sensible concept for deciding if the real cost of a certain project can or can not be postponed to future generations ’ . |
| 11 | Some questions which need to be addressed are what the overall quality of memory for driving is like , what types of detail can or can not be remembered , and what variables , both psychological and environmental , are related to memory ? |
| 12 | The value of extra years of life diminishes however if one or more of these quality factors declines or can not be assured . |
| 13 | By far the most effective arrangements presently available are those which : ( 1 ) provide for the continuing partners to have the option to acquire the share in the firm of an outgoing partner ( which overcomes the tax problems noted in Chapter 10 and offers some desirable freedom of manoeuvre to the continuing partners without ordinarily causing any disadvantage to the outgoing partner ) ; ( 2 ) finance the purchase of the share of a partner who dies before retirement by way of insurance effected on the lives of each of the partners the proceeds of which are declared to be held on trust for the partners for the time being ; ( 3 ) finance by endowment insurance the purchase of the shares of partners whose retirement can be predicted ; ( 4 ) ensure that in any case which is not or can not be sufficiently covered by available insurance ( eg payments to a partner who is expelled or who otherwise leaves the firm before normal retirement date ) payment of any capital sum is spread over a period so to reduce the burden on the continuing partners without imposing any great hardship on the outgoing partner or his estate ; and ( 5 ) impose on each partner an obligation ( Clause 14.02 ) to take out adequate ( as discussed with all the partners from time to time ) retirement provision for the benefit of himself and his familyso as not to impose any burden in that respect on the firm , which in former times would have accepted responsibility . |
| 14 | The court will set aside a decision if it is taken by someone who is not or can not be appointed as the expert . |
| 15 | Congress alone has the power to decide whether the present laws can or can not be amended so as to carry out more effectively the objects of law . |
| 16 | The second way to underline your punch 's effectiveness is to allow it to strike with a satisfying thud that can not be mistaken . |
| 17 | The program implements a prescan of the data to determine parameters that can not be resolved by the direct leastsquares method of analysis . |
| 18 | There are now no ‘ fundamental contradictions in human life that can not be resolved in the context of modern liberalism ’ . |
| 19 | By awarding the Dalai Lama the Nobel Peace Prize , it has strengthened what is the one real threat to Peking 's rule of Tibet , the one source of dissent that can not be silenced by guns : the international prestige of Tibet 's exiled ‘ God King ’ . |
| 20 | It is a question that can not be answered . |
| 21 | Delivering the Drew lecture on ‘ Government and the Arts ’ at the Central London Polytechnic , Mr Fisher pointed out that when Mr Luce announced three-year funding for the arts in November 1987 , he had said the figure could not be reviewed ‘ unless the situation changes substantially in ways that can not be foreseen today ’ . |
| 22 | Further non-economic influences that can not be ignored are ethnic and religious differences . |
| 23 | In practice , however , from about 5 o'clock in the morning onwards changes occur that can not be explained in this way . |
| 24 | In the first three years of a Service 's Long-Term Costing after the actual estimates year , there seems to be a bow-wave of requirements that can not be fitted into the programme . |
| 25 | Therefore , think some whites , the plight of blacks is a problem that can not be solved . |
| 26 | In reality that would only increase white racism and try to solve with money a problem that can not be bribed away . |
| 27 | The only thing that can not be managed is the economic manufacture of newsprint . |
| 28 | For this is a link that can not be uncoupled ; ‘ in my end is my beginning ’ . |
| 29 | They try to manage for themselves something that can not be managed , but needs only to be accepted with proper gratitude and clear insight into the nature of the giver . |
| 30 | In a few instances the loss of someone close can propel the survivor into an overwhelming emotional whirlpool that can not be contained without expert help or hospitalization or treatment or a combination of all of these . |