Example sentences of "and can not [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The codes participate in the structuring process of the text and can not be rounded off or completed . |
| 2 | Landowners , farmers ( and local authorities ) naturally use the land they control to maximum advantage , so of course , they build flood banks to prevent flood damage and can not be prevented from so doing . |
| 3 | The transition from one to the other takes place after a few seconds of observation , is discontinous and can not be stopped at in an intermediate position . |
| 4 | The Kingdom is not and can not be relegated to an appendix which follows the turning of the last page of world history . |
| 5 | Action : Module is password protected and can not be accessed by this user |
| 6 | Its title is misleading , since the Georgian interiors are few in number , and can not be said to give much idea of their period . |
| 7 | He has already demonstrated an ability to meet delivery dates , and can not be said to neglect quality . |
| 8 | 3 Make sure that personnel who are to be present from sections other than the PR department are fully briefed on their role and on what can and can not be said . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , all these matters are only indicative , and can not be said to be conclusive . |
| 10 | Typically , the products involved are standardised and can not be differentiated . |
| 11 | Commonly , the products involved are standardised and can not be differentiated . |
| 12 | Or alternatively someone is asleep and can not be disturbed . |
| 13 | Without doubt , when the need occurs , this method of by-passing the roots and ‘ injecting ’ deficient nutrients directly into foliage is extremely valuable and can not be denied . |
| 14 | The selectivity and control of conscious attention remains poorly understood ; very clearly it is not at all coextensive with information processing for much of this is never observed and can not be summoned up for examination . |
| 15 | From the practical standpoint , it is often claimed that there is never enough time to write objectives ; that their use removes the spontaneity from teaching ; and finally that from a clinical point of view they are inappropriate , as much of the teaching is ‘ crisis , teaching and can not be foreseen nor planned . |
| 16 | The degree and nature of any interaction between the proposal and existing research programmes would depend totally on the needs of each individual submission made to us by visiting researchers , and can not be foreseen at this stage . |
| 17 | Those that are out of phase destroy each other and can not be detected ( see figure 3.16 ) . |
| 18 | Below a ratio of 0.5 vesicles become unstable in the chromatographic milieu and can not be detected ( unpublished ) . |
| 19 | Shawl collars have no provenance as far as I 'm concerned and can not be supported . |
| 20 | Although any " alternative doctrine must be highly speculative " , the influential Halsbury 's Laws of England goes on to recognise that : " for many constitutional theorists the question of whether parliamentary sovereignty presupposes that Parliament must always remain sovereign and can not be bound by the legislation of its predecessors , or whether Parliament 's sovereignty entitles it to restrict its power to legislate , or deprive itself of the power to legislate , remains open . " |
| 21 | In return for the high interest you earn , your money is tied up and can not be withdrawn easily if you need some of it in a hurry . |
| 22 | NHS professionals normally perceive day hospitals as a possible alternative to hospital admission for people who are acutely ill and can not be treated as outpatients or at home , as a place for recently discharged short-term in-patients to attend for a period while settling back into normal life , and as a place to treat , monitor and give social support to long-term patients who would otherwise live isolated lives . |
| 23 | Time governs all things and can not be refuted . |
| 24 | This problem is more likely to arise at a time when the patient is unconscious and can not be consulted . |
| 25 | Fanatics are immune to all Psychology and can not be beaten ( or even fought ) in hand-to-hand combat . |
| 26 | Reason is more certain than revelation , and can not be made any more certain by it . |
| 27 | And perhaps their foolishness will make everyone understand that however much fun Home Alone is for children at the cinema it is fiction and can not be made real by acting it out . |
| 28 | There are cases not in any way in doubt on this appeal which establish the general proposition that a foetus enjoys , while still a foetus , no independent legal personality — a foetus can not , while a foetus , sue and can not be made a ward of court : see Paton v. British Pregnancy Advisory Service Trustees [ 1979 ] Q.B . |
| 29 | Evidently it is not much use replacing existential propositions with their properly quantified " canonical " paraphrases , if the concept of existential quantification itself gives rise to obscurities and can not be made sufficiently precise . |
| 30 | Both parties have invited this court to proceed on the basis that the validity of the appointment is not and can not be disputed or decided on this application . |