Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] can [not/n't] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this is a programm devoted to ‘ bass ’ Cantatas , and I 'm afraid I can not be so enthusiastic about the soloist Peter Kooy , who is , quite frankly , rather inadequate in the celebrated Cantata ‘ Ich habe genug ’ . |
| 2 | But this it can not be said , can only be shown forth as in the suicide letter where Stavrogin writes ‘ My desires are too weak ; they can not guide me . ’ |
| 3 | Although there may be more or less rigorous ways of doing this it can not be denied that the central activity is the same . |
| 4 | It is a sociocultural category of the highest importance , but just because of this it can not be empirically presumed . |
| 5 | If a person is searched in public he can not be required to remove anything other than his coat , jacket or gloves . |
| 6 | The Edinburgh Review ( Oct. 1807 ) was openly abusive : ‘ If the printing of such trash as this be not felt as an insult on the public taste , we are afraid it can not be insulted . ’ |
| 7 | It is a truism to say that that which can not be readily classified will tend to be overlooked . |
| 8 | That which can not be changed : History is immutable . |
| 9 | As such they can not be ignored , unlike the findings of a public inquiry which are purely advisory . |
| 10 | Whatever it might be for you , but something that you 're going to have to be thinking about , and while you 're thinking about that you can not be thinking about work . |
| 11 | Butler sometimes talks of a passion as directed at one 's ‘ having ’ its object , but it seems more satisfactory to say that particular passions are directed at occurrences , and that the basic one can not be directed ; t the occurrence of pleasure for oneself since this always stems from having something occur one wished to do so . |
| 12 | This in my view , is a tremendous tribute to everybody in this hall and the many thousand who can not be with us today . |
| 13 | ‘ But then I feel sure we can not be talking about the same woman , Mr McKillop . |
| 14 | If you use the latter make sure they can not be got at by children , wild birds or pets . |
| 15 | PAMELA : [ aside ] Sure he can not be so bad , sure he can not . |
| 16 | POLICE are racing against time to find five stolen canisters of rodent poison so deadly it can not be handled without breathing apparatus . |
| 17 | This based on the deeply entrenched conviction that if it looks naughty it must be very fattening , while if it looks innocent or healthy it can not be . |
| 18 | Realistic goals , mutually agreed with the patient when this is possible , could then be set to prevent potential problems from becoming actual ones ; to alleviate or solve the actual problems ; or to help the person cope with those which can not be alleviated or solved . |
| 19 | Mutual , realistic goals can then be set to prevent potential problems from becoming actual ones ; to alleviate or solve the actual problems ; or to help the patient cope with those which can not be alleviated or solved . |
| 20 | We ignore those which can not be made basic ( no positive pivot ) or whose introduction into the basis would lead to a tableau already on our list . |
| 21 | Only justified needs and preferences are corded on the care plan including those which can not be met . |
| 22 | Non-renewable sources of energy are those which can not be replaced once used up . |
| 23 | Thus crime would be prevented by modifying those who can be modified , segregating those who can not be so modified , correcting in advance of crime those who are proved to be most likely to commit crime , and attacking and eliminating the social situations which are most conducive to crime ( ibid. , p. 608 ) . |
| 24 | For this reason housing associations , as well as housing families , have tended to house people who are considered to have ‘ special needs ’ , in particular those who can not be housed in the traditional nuclear family unit . |
| 25 | So , if something is extra-sensory it can not be perceived . |
| 26 | If balance is important it can not be limited to public television . |
| 27 | These eggs are so small they can not be seen with the naked eye . |
| 28 | He thinks it plainly better to insist that when a statute is deeply unclear it can not be the source of as-if legal rights at all , that the right rule is whichever rule is best for the future . |
| 29 | After all , if it did not occur to Bohr , Heisenberg and Schrödinger in the twenties it can not be trivially self-evident . |
| 30 | They also heard the chairman of the STUC energy committee , Harry McLevy , spell out the grounds for continued investment , arguing that the case for nuclear power is so big it can not be ignored and must be incorporated into any energy policy for Scotland. , |