Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | As a consequence , they dislike having to attend incidents at this time which are so serious that action can not be avoided . |
| 5 | The educational needs of people engaged in rural development action can not be met by present provisions . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 " . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This means that an action can not be founded on a bad cause . |
| 16 | However , the nature of the state 's action can not be understood solely by reference to what happens outside the state . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Likewise they implicitly assume that over the medium-term ( 3-10 years ) , the supply side can not be assumed to be constant . |
| 20 | Whatever the case , the number one lesson to learn is that a horse can not be prevented from pulling by merely pulling back at him . |
| 21 | As with any evasion , the horse can not be expected to know that he is not supposed to do it . |
| 22 | ‘ If there is chaos , the process of renewal can not be continued , ’ Mr Wolfgang Meyer , the government spokesman , said . |
| 23 | The struggle to end capitalist wage labour can not be helped by women opting out and can only be undertaken by a working class that is less divided by male domination than the present one . |
| 24 | The reality that there are rights of ownership and that they are liable to , and do , conflict with those of labour can not be exorcised by pretending that they are not there ; and it is the exclusion of the public sector from the Committee 's purview which admits that reality . |
| 25 | Corporatism tends to " fit " the facts best with respect to the major functional economic groupings of capital and labour ; with respect to issues of economic policy ( especially in so far as they concern incomes ) in periods of boom when labour can not be easily disciplined by market forces ; and at the level of the central state . |
| 26 | It is true that on defence Labour can not be trusted . |
| 27 | As a commodity , labour can not be allowed by management to participate in decision-making since this loss of control could endanger the private appropriation of profit ( Nichols 1980 , pp. 287–9 ) . |
| 28 | However , the abolition of unfree labour can not be analysed simply in terms of economic calculation . |
| 29 | The Tories say Labour can not be trusted to form the next Government . |
| 30 | This extra card can only be used by that shaman — the card can not be used by other shamans . |