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" endeavouring to abrogate Lawes for their [ the Dissenters ' ] sake " , laws which , he added , " perhaps can not be repealed " .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 . |