Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] can not [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How long they have been in partnership I can not be sure , but they show all the signs of a close musical understanding — temperament and technique in the service of the music , rather than vice versa , plus a healthy respect for the demands of textural clarity . |
| 2 | As I have not kept the programme I can not be sure about this . |
| 3 | But suddenly the thought of her mama was painful to her , and to push it away she leaned back again , said , amusement plain in her voice , which , although she did not know it , surprised Neil Cochrane a little , ‘ Oh , I will be good , because in my present condition I can not be anything else , I fear . ’ |
| 4 | It is fairly safe to eat game and animals which can not be intensively reared . |
| 5 | Video pictures are recorded in the form of overlapping magnetic signals which can not be cut and respliced without severely disrupting the pictures when the tape is played back . |
| 6 | Therefore , we believe that the introduction of the issue of human rights and respect for human dignity into the education system and the adoption of measures aimed at promoting these values are essential steps which can not be postponed . ’ |
| 7 | Ideology is , therefore , a solution in the mind to contradictions which can not be solved in practice ; it is the necessary projection in consciousness of man 's practical inabilities . |
| 8 | It is suggested that it is unsatisfactory to allow the rent to be fixed in reliance on assertions made by the parties which can not be challenged by cross examination , and where the expert is not to be given an opportunity of seeing and evaluating the quality of the witnesses . |
| 9 | Aggregation results in mixed or compound Poisson distributions which can not be fitted by standard methods . |
| 10 | Derek Bond ( Guardian 22.8.89 ) , assistant general secretary of the sea officers union UMAST , pointed out that adequate rest periods for crews is a mere recommendation which can not be enforced . |
| 11 | ( ii ) an anomaly which can not be removed by replacing one or more open set items , but can be removed by changing one or more closed set items , is purely grammatical ; |
| 12 | This contrasts with Derrida 's view of différance which cuts across the distinction between diachrony and synchrony by including a temporal as well as a spatial dimension : elements are seen as part of a chain of relationships which can not be de fined as either diachronic or synchronic and so can not be reduced to the status of an object in the way that synchronically defined structures can . |
| 13 | There are certain words which can not be pronounced using the GPC route , however , and these are words with irregular grapheme-to-phoneme correspondences . |
| 14 | Diffusing knowledge and acquiring it are as much an art as a science , processes influenced by variables which can not be measured as much as by those which can . |
| 15 | From an animal welfare point of view the chasing of a fox or a deer round the countryside with dogs and followed by men either on foot or mounted on horses is a cruel practice which can not be justified . |
| 16 | Fifthly , the production and determination of ideology is mediated through human practice which can not be reduced solely to the reproduction of material relations . |
| 17 | Bangor 's 80-year-old Carnegie Library , situated in Hamilton Road , is in constant need of repair , with a large stock of books which can not be put on public display because of the limited floor space . |
| 18 | The lazy undergraduate who can not be persuaded to read Trevor-Roper 's magisterial life of Archbishop Laud might fruitfully be propelled in the direction of the 20-page retrospect reproduced here . |
| 19 | On the other hand , regard has to be paid to the position of innocent third parties who can not be expected , and often would have no means , to know the condition or status of the signer . |
| 20 | According to this characterization there can not be a society without social representations . |
| 21 | Previous studies have not investigated the role of population mixing in the Dounreay-Thurso area , though they have shown that the excess of leukaemia and non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma there can not be attributed to paternal nuclear employment or irradiation before the child 's conception . |
| 22 | Firstly , they tend not to originate from a real typographic font but are often variations on an original while , secondly , being bitmaps they can not be scaled . |
| 23 | When deprived of these sensations they can not be used as checks when maintaining a safe environment . |
| 24 | Detrimental to the plaintiff it can not be , if he has no cause of action ; and beneficial to the defendant it can not be ; for , in contemplation of law , the defence upon such an admitted state of facts must be successful , and the defendant will recover costs , which must be assumed to be a full compensation for all the legal damage he may sustain . |
| 25 | Except for permitting me to believe that he was a single gentleman — a fault he can not be excused for — he has behaved to me with generosity and honour . |
| 26 | But to test , for example , the assumption about item difficulty being independent of the student requires assuming that ability is unidimensional ; in other words it can not be tested ! |
| 27 | All the rest depend on this being present , for if a procedure is not appropriate to a particular patient 's condition it can not be judged quality care ( Shaw undated ) . |
| 28 | Once we play the card of the threat of recognition it can not be used again . |
| 29 | Political parties themselves can not be said to have existed before 1679 . |
| 30 | The limitations associated with conventional doorbells and chimes which can not be heard clearly in rooms far away from the source of the sound , or in the garden , are overcome with a new portable wire-free doorchime from Friedland . |