Example sentences of "[conj] can not [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The value of extra years of life diminishes however if one or more of these quality factors declines or can not be assured . |
| 4 | It has also set out some rules about which menu items can or can not be increased in price . |
| 5 | The court will set aside a decision if it is taken by someone who is not or can not be appointed as the expert . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 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 | It is a question that can not be answered . |
| 13 | Ask for details of sensations , where they are situated , where they move to , how they start and change , find out what the pattern is but take care to use open ended questions whenever possible ; questions that can not be answered by a simple ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ , such as ‘ How does your head feel ? ’ instead of ‘ Do you have a headache ? ’ |
| 14 | There will be great debate surrounding the engine and many questions will be raised that can not be answered except in terms of likelihood . |
| 15 | Whether these entry positions can , in turn , be levered into positions of more than a new dependency on the technological leaders is an open question and one that can not be answered in the general case . |
| 16 | ‘ Are the same pupils regularly absent ? ’ is the first obvious question that can not be answered by examining attendance rates . |
| 17 | ‘ ( a ) no evidence shall be admissible in any proceedings before a judicial authority exercising its jurisdiction or functions in Great Britain to prove that any such person has committed … any offence which was the subject of a spent conviction ; and ’ ( b ) a person shall not , in any such proceedings , be asked , and , if asked , shall not be required to answer , any question relating to his past that can not be answered without acknowledging or referring to a spent conviction or spent convictions or any circumstances thereto ; … ’ |
| 18 | Fibre is the indigestible component of our diet , almost always derived from vegetable produce , and it is those components of the diet that can not be broken down by the digestive system which in turn pass into the large bowel and contribute to the bulk of faecal waste matter . |
| 19 | Present levels of breakdown , isolation , fear and violence are evils that can not be separated from the economic system that delivers the goods . |
| 20 | So any cream or potion which implies ( the advertising standards authority objects to claims that can not be proven ) that your skin will look more radiant and youthful is on to a good thing . |
| 21 | Fundamentalism is a belief system that can not be refuted because it comes from a supreme being . |
| 22 | If it is important to understand a number of practical policies , because of a concern about their effects upon society , it is necessary to accept studies that can not be defined in terms of a discrete intellectual discipline . |
| 23 | Although there are numbers that can not be expressed as a sum of three squares , for instance 7 , Gauss had managed to find the number of expressions when they do exist . |
| 24 | The term phimosis ( from the Greek word for muzzling ) is often incorrectly applied to any foreskin that can not be retracted . |
| 25 | Their ideologies create enclosed belief-systems that can not be affected by evidence which contradicts them . |
| 26 | There must , of course , be money-making enterprises as well to buy those necessities that can not be grown on the farm , but these will be looked upon as secondary calls on the agricultural operations in which farm surpluses are sold to supplement the cash income from non-farming sources . |
| 27 | They gave me the vitally important gift of being able to ‘ feel ’ an audience , a precious sixth sense that can not be taught . |
| 28 | For here there appears to be nothing that can not be transfused utterly with spirit , with high feeling , with fierce clean passion . |
| 29 | He also stated in terms that can not be misunderstood that science is after all a human activity , dependent on human imagination to produce its hypotheses , absolutely incapable of describing the world absolutely , but setting itself merely the obligation of bouncing its ideas against reality . |
| 30 | While treaty succession is a specialised topic that can not be developed here , many practical and juridical problems of State succession are equally relevant in an over-all consideration of treaties and third parties . |