Example sentences of "but this can not [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sensation of seeing is for us very different from the sensation of hearing , but this can not be directly due to the physical differences between light and sound . |
| 2 | But this can not be taken as carte blanche for assuming that long-term recorded crime trends correspond to victimization . |
| 3 | Legend maintains that his remains were removed from Monkton kirkyard and placed in the monument but this can not be substantiated . |
| 4 | But this can not be the whole story , for David Rhodes and others have discovered that this communication can even take place from tree to tree , where there is no root or other physical contact . |
| 5 | A curiously named farm at the eastern end of the parish , adjacent to the waterway which leads into the river Hull , is Corps Landing , the legend being that corpses were landed here for interment , but this can not be proved . |
| 6 | But this can not be adequate . |
| 7 | Results will be published in a future edition of GH , but this can not be before four months . |
| 8 | BCVB will make every effort to satisfy clients ' requirements , subject to availability of accommodation at the preferred hotel , but this can not be guaranteed . |
| 9 | It is not impossible that [ h ] -loss became fashionable because of its loss in French , but this can not be demonstrated . |
| 10 | The propaganda onslaught by the Tories and private business interests must have helped to discredit nationalisation , but this can not be the whole explanation . |
| 11 | But this can not be a simple step-by-step process . |
| 12 | Substantial progress has been reported in understanding the molecular pathology of presenile Alzheimer 's disease but this can not be extrapolated to senile forms before the epidemiology of presenile disease is known . |
| 13 | But this can not be the only explanation , because pigeons can home normally even when taken out in enclosed vans in continuously rotating cages , or even under anaesthetic , both of which treatments should render learning the outward journey impossible . |
| 14 | On proximal joints the dorsal arm spines from one side of the arm form a continuous series with those from the other , but this can not be called a fan in the sense used in other genera of the Ophiacanthidae . |
| 15 | ‘ But — but this can not be . ’ |
| 16 | Indeed it is quite possible that at this pH range there is a mixture of gastric acid and duodenal alkaline juices which may be damaging ( with toxic synergism ) to the oesophageal mucosa , but this can not be assessed using the parameter of pH . |
| 17 | 34 ) , but this can not be taken into account . |
| 18 | The sensation of seeing is , for us , very different from the sensation of hearing , but this can not be directly due to the physical differences between light and sound . |
| 19 | For example , a telephonist in a large company may have contact with a customer by answering his calls but this can not be a reasonable basis for preventing that person from working for a trade competitor . |