Example sentences of "[adv] can not be " in BNC.

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1 So erm er erm by n by no means er could you call one point one percent of something that can vary by factors of three in , in , in , in Cornwall the natural radiation is three times what it is in , in Essex erm er but they seem to be quite er healthy nevertheless in Cornwall erm so point one percent is er varies by factors of three , obviously ca n't be considered to be erm er a major political er a major erm er environmental hazard .
2 The drummer 's th the very stupid one , and the bassist basically ca n't be bothered at all , you know .
3 Mr Eynon retired from the force two months ago and so ca n't be disciplined .
4 Thirdly , the debates over how far to forge a strategy either for winning power or for promoting economic development in a post-revolutionary society have not been satisfactorily resolved , and indeed perhaps can not be , given that counter-revolutionary response to any successful formula will ensure that it will be that much more difficult to apply the same tactics in another situation .
5 The Archbishop of Canterbury , William Sancroft , composed a lengthy statement of " Reasons against Subscription " , in which he condemned the Indulgence for " endeavouring to abrogate Lawes for their [ the Dissenters ' ] sake " , laws which , he added , " perhaps can not be repealed " .
6 However subjective the ‘ standard of living adequate for health and wellbeing ’ , it obviously can not be achieved if population is outstripping subsistence .
7 The initial hypothesis suggested above about baptism being more a social than a religious ceremony is so general and broad that it obviously can not be tested without being broken down into its constituent parts .
8 For such enquiry is based on idealization , the extraction of what is seen as essential from observable data , and idealization obviously can not be free of ideological influence : it must be related to some pre-existing framework of belief .
9 Such people obviously can not be approached to fill in a questionnaire !
10 There obviously can not be a specific method of completing the forms .
11 As Karl Barth expresses it , woman is to man as B is to A ; why should woman mind ? 17 The idea that western religion has itself been a cause of attitudes which have deeply harmed women obviously can not be given entrance by them .
12 This obviously can not be counted as a social welfare gain ( or loss ) .
13 But that is not to say , and it obviously can not be the case , that he is still the statutory tenant for all purposes , so as to be in the same position as if the order had never been made .
14 Only last week , the last time I sat in court er there was an instance of one individual who had had twelve cautions in a period of eight months er he was still a youth so his name obviously can not be divulged , erm and it 's not only the cautions , I wonder how many warnings he 'd received as well .
15 It obviously can not be justified .
16 In a sentence such as ( 30 ) , the event saw obviously can not be conceived as existing before the beginning of the crossing : ( 30 ) I saw him cross the street .
17 Much of this material can not be found anywhere else outside the USSR , and , is according to some recent Soviet visitors , much can not be found even there .
18 The existence of other cases where this connection apparently can not be made , as pointed out by Jespersen , indicates however that this sense can not be taken as descriptive of the full potential for meaning which to has in contemporary English .
19 Your special time for catching up together can not be shared with exuberant teenagers , the unexpected caller or a visiting relative .
20 It is not simply a contractual relationship which can be ended at will , for what God has joined together can not be ended lightly .
21 Admittedly , the repetition of such similar patterns together can not be coincidental but , as with the mosaics from Newton St. Loe , this repetition is not always best explained by the presence of the same craftsmen at a different site .
22 This position claims that the existence of God not only can not be proved but can not make sense .
23 Births registered by the mother only can not be assigned to a social class , but the Longitudinal Study showed that 73 per cent of teenage illegitimate births in 1970–4 occurred to women where the ‘ chief economic supporter ’ ( usually father ) was a manual worker ; 13 per cent in social class V ( Werner 1989 ) .
24 It is likened to a heaven full of stars , yet better than such because his wounds are efficacious by day as well as by night , and not only can not be obscured by clouds but positively drive away clouds of sin ; a net full of holes in which the meditator prays to be drawn to the bank of death ; a dovecote full of holes of refuge and a honeycomb full of cells of sweet honey ; a book written in red ink — matter for the meditator 's attention at " matyns , pryme , houris , euesong & complin " ; a meadow full of healing and delightful flowers and herbs ( 96 – 7 ) .
25 It is important to note here that the drug career patterns of ‘ known ’ users presented below can not be representative of the total user population .
26 For the past 150 years our politicians have been droning on about the need to train the British worker to the level of the German , oblivious to the somewhat obvious fact that we are not Germans so can not be expected to behave like them .
27 Reasons that should have determined the authority 's directive but failed to do so can not be thought to belong to the justification of the directive .
28 Do so can not be replaced by a ‘ copy ’ of part of the first clause .
29 AGR fuel is clad in stainless steel , which corrodes and so can not be kept for long periods under water .
30 Keynesians have remained very sceptical of this mechanism , arguing that neither the increase in the real money supply nor the real balance effect will have a significant effect on aggregate demand- and so can not be relied upon to reduce unemployment .
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