Example sentences of "[coord] 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 | This is something for which surveys , including that of Greeley and Rossi , are not and can not be intended . |
| 17 | The cash value of scientific observations in this context must therefore be based upon subjective experience and can not be greater than the cash value of the latter ; for it is subjective experience that , ultimately , validates our objective scales of energy intensity . |
| 18 | Presently-available RDS radios can not be used for TMC , and can not be adapted . |
| 19 | But perhaps the moral we should draw is that criticism is not , and can not be , such a discipline ( though literary history is , or may be ) . |
| 20 | Mr Kaufman called in his support the view of Hans-Dietrich Genscher , the German foreign minister , who he said had told the review group in Bonn that ‘ agreements are better than unilateral moves because they can be verified and can not be reversed ’ . |
| 21 | The person who sits on the dais in Ottawa or Canberra and goes through the motions of opening a Parliament is not and can not be the same being at all as the person who does these things and has done them from time immemorial at Westminster . |
| 22 | For Fanon this means that , despite Europe 's crimes , which will not and can not be forgotten , the Third World 's ‘ new history of Man ’ must ‘ have regard to the sometimes prodigious theses which Europe has put forward ’ since ‘ all the elements of a solution to the great problems of humanity have , at different times , existed in European thought ’ ( Wretched of the Earth , 253 — 4 ) . |
| 23 | The main good grains on which we depend for an essential part of our daily diet come from plants belonging to the family of grasses and can not be readily digested until the tough outer shells are broken up and , sometimes , removed . |
| 24 | Put strong bolts at the top and bottom of all outside doors , the Mortice Security bolt is one of the best type available and can not be opened from the outside of the door . |
| 25 | The new principle was a good one , because it forced the government to live in a world where inflation matters and can not be conveniently assumed away . |
| 26 | These map programs take a fair bit of work , and can not be drawn up on the launching ship ; the sailors load a ready-made map into the missile , and tell it how to get to the initial way-point . |
| 27 | According to the Aristotelian picture , scientia , or knowledge proper , is knowledge of what is necessary and can not be otherwise . |
| 28 | To have such ‘ scientific knowledge ’ of , say , the facts that man is the only animal with a sense of humour , that gold dissolves in aqua regia , or that triangles have angles equal to two right angles , is to know that these things must be so and can not be otherwise . |
| 29 | Just as , for the Aristotelians , knowledge or scientia has to do with necessities , with what must be so and can not be otherwise , so , for Locke , ‘ knowledge ’ is universal and certain . |
| 30 | Reason is more certain than revelation , and can not be made any more certain by it . |