Example sentences of "[noun pl] can not [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Some words can not be pronounced at all until their meaning has been recognised . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | New words can not be added to this class — hence its name . |
| 7 | the comprehension of speech is severely impaired ; sometimes even single spoken words can not be understood even though they are correctly perceived . |
| 8 | However , the causal influence of such characteristics can not be considered by itself , and must be investigated in the context of particular societies . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the Brechtian aesthetic , the real struggles of life and oppressed peoples can not be shown , as it were , naturally . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Self-venting cylinders can not be used with corrosion inhibitors and are seldom installed these days |
| 13 | So the lists can not be drawn up . |
| 14 | SCHOOLS can not be run like assembly lines , the National Union of Teachers says in a booklet being sent tobusiness executives to ask their help in opposing any move to pay teachers according to classroom performance . |
| 15 | Some head teachers — a minority , I am glad to say — ask why their schools can not be inspected by inspectors they know . |
| 16 | Medical students from other Medical Schools can not be considered unless there are extenuating reasons . |
| 17 | Education Authorities can direct schools to let premises to Adult Education and to Youth Organisations , but the budget given to schools can not be used to subsidise anyone else 's use — any subsidy must come from elsewhere . |
| 18 | The motor control routine shown in Fig. 8.3 is entered with the number of steps loaded into accumulator A ( if the number of steps can not be expressed within the confines of an eight.bit word corresponding to 256 steps the routine must be executed several times ) and the index register X pointing at a location in the list between ENDLOW and ENDHI . |
| 19 | TCG is biased against the taxpayer and in favour of the Revenue , because losses can not be carried back and there is no provision for carrying forward unused annual exemptions nor for top-slicing ( spreading the gains over the years during which they have occurred ) . |
| 20 | But the composition of the total expected return is important for tax purposes : coupon payments are taxed as income ; capital gains are not subject to taxation , capital losses can not be offset against other taxable income . |
| 21 | The practicalities of service of the Summons , entering appearance , lodging Defences and so forth , are usually such that consideration of tactics can not be undertaken until the Adjustment Period is fixed . |
| 22 | Quite clearly , such tactics can not be tolerated by the association and unless things improve , the coming year may well be one of open confrontation . ’ |
| 23 | That Saints managed to cause an upset with nothing more than direct running and honest endeavour , bodes well for Great Britain , though the Kiwis can not be expected to enter the Test arena in such a generous mood . |
| 24 | Clark , for example , allows that animals are spared our miseries about money or job prospects , and goes on : ‘ It does not follow , however , from their lack of these distresses that calves can not be acutely distressed at the absence of their mothers , nor that chickens are not distressed when unable to stretch their wings . ’ |
| 25 | THERE WERE fears last night that the first substantial cracks had opened in the facade of the European Community 's ‘ Project 1992 ’ after finance ministers appeared to concede that the deadline for creating a truly seamless marketplace for traders can not be met . |
| 26 | Since speakers ' intuitions can not be easily accessed to define the membership of sets such as these ( see further 8.2.1 ) it is difficult to see what alternative procedure might have been adopted . |
| 27 | Four elements here are open to criticism : ( 1 ) the term batteur de mesure had become discredited and much less used by 1790 , because of its association with the bad old days ; ( 2 ) the ‘ large stick ’ whatever its size in 1750 , got markedly smaller by 1790 ; ( 3 ) there was no unified body of opinion which attacked ‘ woodchopping ’ over the decades : in fact Rousseau 's text , and those of his epigones , aspired to make musico-political points in favour of Italian opera as much as about beating time ; ( 4 ) audible stick signals can not be said , at least after 1781 , to have ‘ co-ordinated ’ chorus and ballet , if that implies ‘ heard as a matter of course ’ ; the evidence shows that no audible signal was thereafter heard as a matter of course . |
| 28 | The metabolic concentrations can not be taken to be representative of analgesic ratios . |
| 29 | The other problem is that common investment funds can not be tailored to suit your requirements . |
| 30 | Sir David said that in the last few days , the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , has written to say that NHS funds can not be used in this way . |