Example sentences of "it can not be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can not be repeated too often that a dancer requires less time to make a statement than do words or music . |
| 2 | It can not be repeated too often that the main ingredient required by anyone wishing to learn to fly model helicopters is sheer dogged perseverance ! |
| 3 | It can not be repeated too often — do n't develop a bias towards one particular attitude or direction . |
| 4 | It is the most costly spectacle on earth and it can not be repeated again this century . |
| 5 | Since a microcomputer is usually dedicated to controlling some fixed task , the program of instructions can be permanently built into the ROM so that it can not be corrupted . |
| 6 | More by at least two millennia and although the historical development of the Utopian myth is highly significant it can not be examined here . |
| 7 | The regular septagon is the most inaccessable of the primary polygons … probably because it can not be constructed accurately with only ruler and compass . |
| 8 | For no matter how much it is objected that it can not be stated definitely from these considerations just what the thing is like according to its nature , but only what it is like in respect to one thing or to another , it may still be said what there is in it which makes it appear to be this in respect to one thing and that in respect to another ; and consequently it may be said both to be one thing according to its nature and to be this or that in respect to other things . |
| 9 | But it can not be stated too emphatically that the principles by reference to which decisions are made are not within the unique prerogative of doctors to lay down . |
| 10 | It can not be stated too strongly that sterilisation should always be regarded as a permanent step . |
| 11 | The conclusion derived from this is that if an object is such that in principle it can not be referred to directly and unequivocally with a simple symbol , only described , then it can not qualify as a fundamental ontological existent . |
| 12 | The fact is that they hold the uterus open , which means that egg and sperm are allowed to unite , but the pregnancy is doomed because it can not be sustained without the uterus closing . |
| 13 | It can not be imposed from without . |
| 14 | It can not be emphasised too strongly that our unemployment problems do not stem from the installation of such equipment . |
| 15 | It can not be emphasised too strongly how unusual this case was . |
| 16 | What is more , it can not be emphasised too strongly that all fossils are " facies fossils ' . |
| 17 | If a libel is extremely serious , to the extent that a court is prepared to hold that it can not be compensated by money and deserves to be punished as a crime , its publisher may be made the target of a prosecution . |
| 18 | However , it can not be denied that incompetent side-slipping and sideslipping close to the ground can cause accidents . |
| 19 | It can not be denied that we need more resources to improve the quality of life of very frail older people . |
| 20 | Many of the shortcomings of the eastern type are similar to those of the western , but it can not be denied that it is the immensely complicated nature alone of the eastern Buddhism , Hinduism and their derivatives that is sufficient to make them equally useless as a basis of a religion of the character that mankind needs . |
| 21 | Tradition maintains that many of the Campbells warned Macdonalds in time for them to escape but it can not be denied that on that winter morning in Glencoe many of the Clan Campbell plumbed the depths of treachery and horror . |
| 22 | On the credit side , however , and it can not be denied , in terms of health , physical fitness , and wealth ( pocket-money ) the modern youngster has the best scores . |
| 23 | It can not be denied that air pollution needs to be addressed but we should n't be fooled into paying more of our hard-earned cash which will be used to pay for Mr Lamont 's bungles . |
| 24 | Professor James Torrance , I know , sees this as a weakness in Calvinism , and it can not be denied that , despite the Reformation , a great deal of this legalism passed over into Protestantism . |
| 25 | It can not be denied that there is a streak of ‘ wish-fulfilment ’ in The Lord of the Rings . |
| 26 | Whilst not wishing to create visions of the past as a ‘ Golden Age ’ ( it was certainly not ) , it can not be denied that the main social trends in family organization , particularly since the Industrial Revolution , have increasingly served to isolate ageing people . |
| 27 | Leaving aside the unsettled question of political liberalisation , it can not be denied that much has been achieved since Deng Xiaoping took over the Party leadership . |
| 28 | It can not be denied that rock has always been the province of men , even if they have often aped the female . |
| 29 | Although there may be more or less rigorous ways of doing this it can not be denied that the central activity is the same . |
| 30 | Although many questions in parliament about aircraft accidents are put in a genuine spirit of inquiry , it can not be denied that others are merely tabled in an attempt to embarrass the minister or government of the day . |