Example sentences of "and this can [not/n't] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | MG Kent TN4 8XP THE difficulty faced by many younger pensioners is that the husband 's income derives mainly from occupational pensions and this can not be transferred to the wife . |
| 2 | Like children and families , social workers also need support and this can not be guaranteed by Act of Parliament alone . |
| 3 | Ward teaching commitments must be honoured , and this can not be done if the clinical teacher is asked at short notice to participate in classroom teaching . |
| 4 | A single electron or positron can not identify a W - of W + with certainty ; there is always a neutrino emitted with the electron in the decay and this can not be detected . |
| 5 | The sterility of absolute atheism completely denies the realisation of any hopes of the existence of such a power , and this can not be acceptable . |
| 6 | In East Norfolk , for example , where I live , I have seen the fox population increase very substantially indeed since that time and this can not be coincidental . |
| 7 | What is happening — and this can not be prevented — is that the bound Fiend within the weather-vane is being freed , and at the end of 3 Turns the weather-vane will shatter and it will be released . |
| 8 | This can not be done by the person alone , because help is needed in overcoming the amnesias and the emotional repressions , and this can not be achieved by introspection . |
| 9 | Therefore there should be little surprise that Freud first links this compulsion to repeat pain on to the non-sexual instincts , for it must have some instinctual base , and this can not be the life-affirming sexual instincts , for they do seem to operate on the pleasure principle par excellence . |
| 10 | Other people need to be excited by new approaches and this can not be achieved by a dull and formal memorandum . |
| 11 | To take the example given earlier , it is necessary to show that the statement about the toothache can indeed be paraphrased into a statement about the corresponding neuro-physiological event ( and hence that the occurrence of the latter event is a logically adequate criterion for ascribing the experience in the given instance ) , and this can not be done without making use of the premisses which such a proof might be expected to underpin . |
| 12 | Strategic vision and consistency of policies by firms , by their financial investors , and by government , are crucial , and this can not be achieved without a coherent sustained industrial strategy . |
| 13 | We should not , however , expect a question for the initial verb alone since this is only possible in English for verbs which describe something as being , in some as yet ill-defined sense , " done " to their objects : ( 69 ) what did Rafferty do to the cistern ? and this can not be claimed for the verbs preceding clausal adjectives any more than for a verb which precedes an explicit subordinate clause . |
| 14 | Modern warfare and the modern economy , for example , require increasingly higher levels of technology and this can not be avoided if any state wishes to participate , or if threatened , survive in the contemporary world . |
| 15 | It appeals to reason , but in order to reason we have got to take something for granted as a starting point and this can not be proved . |
| 16 | But law should be fair and just and this can not be . |