Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] can not [be] " in BNC.

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1 THERE WERE fears last night that the first substantial cracks had opened in the facade of the European Community 's ‘ Project 1992 ’ after finance ministers appeared to concede that the deadline for creating a truly seamless marketplace for traders can not be met .
2 In general , the results that we have reported in this chapter have been favourable to the rational expectations hypothesis , suggesting at the very least that the usefulness of that hypothesis in one area of macroeconomics can not be dismissed lightly .
3 The personal characters of artists can not be infallibly deduced from their work .
4 The understanding and support of personnel can not be assumed .
5 This sharing of skills from a range of disciplines can not be anything but beneficial to children and their parents .
6 It is often necessary where a distinctive and valuable sound made by an instrument or small group of voices can not be heard over the singing of a congregation .
7 The practicalities of service of the Summons , entering appearance , lodging Defences and so forth , are usually such that consideration of tactics can not be undertaken until the Adjustment Period is fixed .
8 Savings may rise as a precaution against the worst happening in the future ; or they may fall , since the future real value of savings can not be guaranteed .
9 It can be said in conclusion that these developments have become central to the future of the ‘ GIS revolution ’ of the late 1980s , since it is now clear that the massive ( and desirable ) growth of the use of GIS can not be supported without improvements to the use environment experienced by the user .
10 The motor control routine shown in Fig. 8.3 is entered with the number of steps loaded into accumulator A ( if the number of steps can not be expressed within the confines of an eight.bit word corresponding to 256 steps the routine must be executed several times ) and the index register X pointing at a location in the list between ENDLOW and ENDHI .
11 Some variation in predictions can be obtained by a different location of the indifference map so that , a priori , the strength of effects can not be settled .
12 The comparative study of political systems and especially public policy-making has given rise to the belief that the distinction between politics and administration is artificial and that the role of administrators can not be settled by a definition which relegates them to a purely instrumental position .
13 Warnings of eco-wars and the flight of hundreds of millions of refugees can not be dismissed as fantasies : they are probabilities in situations which become more and more apparent as the century nears its end .
14 I consider in the light of the foregoing that a reference to the objectives of the Community system of quotas can not be used to justify national rules on the registration of fishing vessels , even if those rules were applicable only to vessels intended to fish for species subject to quotas .
15 It would seem that any future developments of OPACs can not be divorced from developments in IR systems and vice versa .
16 Where there is private property the actions of individuals can not be ‘ shaped at will by another ’ because the individual is able to form a coherent plan of action in the knowledge either that he has control , through ownership , of the material objects necessary to implement it , or that he can enter into enforceable contracts with a range of other people enabling him to have access to those objects .
17 Position of seats can not be guaranteed but will be given if possible
18 Yet analysis of constitutions can not be restricted simply to the document called ‘ the Constitution ’ , or to constitutional law .
19 However persuasively we argue to include software in the existing fold of custodial protection , the need for the special provision of resources can not be evaded .
20 These types of questions can not be answered easily by looking at a conventional map .
21 Such a state of affairs can not be ignored , as it tends to be in selective and much functional assessment .
22 When there is confrontation on the streets or on the picket line we are told that ‘ the responsibility which our education service bears for this state of affairs can not be ignored ’ .
23 Supercomputing — High-performance computers costing millions of pounds can not be sited at every university that needs their computational power ; Yet the vast amounts of data they produce require advanced data visualisation techniques for their human understanding .
24 To this extent , Locke agrees with the scholastic , Thomas Sergeant , that ‘ the way of experiments can not be a true method to science ’ .
25 It has been suggested above that where the true owner of goods can not be involved in the proceedings the common law rule that a mere possessory interest entitles the plaintiff to recover the full value of the goods against a wrongdoer still applies .
26 Yet the economic and sexual dependency of wives can not be overlooked .
27 Attention is drawn to the statement in TR794 that ‘ the tax consequences of pensions can not be accounted for in isolation from potential deferred tax effects from other sources ' , as , for example , ‘ deferred tax arising from sources other than pensions may enhance the prospective recoverability of tax arising in respect of pension payments ’ .
28 It would seem that following this case , the importance of instructions can not be underestimated .
29 The presence or absence of reefs can not be explained solely in terms of temperature and turbidity , for , although reefs are absent from cold current shorelines , such as the west coast of South America , they do not occur even where the temperatures are high enough for coral in this region .
30 With some of the poorer ones the possibility of misunderstandings can not be ruled out .
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