Example sentences of "it can not [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can not be without significance that Ealhmund , slain by Eardwulf 's men in 800 , was buried at Derby and venerated as a saint in Mercia . |
| 2 | If democracy is about government by the people for the people , then it can not be about giving a bunch of politicians a blank cheque to govern us every five years . |
| 3 | But if the asserted proposition is about Ruritania , then surely it must be false , for in that case the subject term has a reference , i.e. there is something for the proposition to be true about If , on the other hand , the proposition is true , then by the same token it can not be about Ruritania , for Ruritania does not exist ; it is fiction . |
| 4 | Warton replies : ‘ It can not be of any use to the dead themselves . |
| 5 | It can not be in any sense hierarchical . |
| 6 | Although this leads to productive links with other agencies and services , it can not be in the best interests of the students . |
| 7 | So long as the Crown maintains armed forces for the defence of the realm , it can not be in its interest that any part of them should be immobilised . |
| 8 | True enough , we have only fragments of his history ; but it can not be by chance that while the Greek side of his tale is full of internal conflicts , the story of Italy is miraculously free of them . |