Example sentences of "system can not be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contours of the political system can not be seen as something external to the mass media , something on which they have an ‘ impact ’ , since they play a part in its determination by , for instance , giving meanings to events , by setting the agenda for debate and by shaping the political climate . |
| 2 | It is given the symbol U. The absolute value of the internal energy of a system can not be determined experimentally . |
| 3 | O'Connell concluded that it is difficult to reject the cogency of Jenks ’ argument ‘ that the sociological achievement of a complex , interlocking conventional system can not be squandered through conservative reliance upon irrelevant political history and immature notions of the role treaties play in an advanced society . ’ |
| 4 | Nevertheless , the advantages from a correctly administered costing system can not be overemphasised . |
| 5 | The value of an accurate , objective staging system can not be overemphasised now that large studies have shown adjuvant therapies to be beneficial in selected groups . |
| 6 | This points strongly to the decreasing profitability of upland sheep farming in that the labour and machinery costs of maintaining the drainage system can not be justified against the potential income from the land . |
| 7 | While not wishing to deny that there are differences in the ways executives , bureaucracies and assemblies operate compared with law courts , we suggest that the politics of any system can not be understood without some awareness of the crucial part played by law in its operations . |
| 8 | ‘ In its present form the railway system can not be managed commercially ’ , he said . |
| 9 | The complex problems surrounding the position of the victim in the criminal justice system can not be solved by the simple confiscation provisions devised by the Son-of-Sam legislation and its progeny . |
| 10 | Some of the functions of the computer system can not be initiated directly by lexicographers . |
| 11 | If the results did not always work out in the way intended , the blame for the failings of the criminal justice system can not be attributed to any lack of zeal to legislate . |
| 12 | Feed systems vary according to whether liquid or powder detergents are used as the same system can not be used for both . |
| 13 | The system can not be used unless : ( a ) the complainant consents ; ( b ) the chief officer of police is satisfied that the case would not justify criminal or disciplinary charges being brought . |
| 14 | Without a market for externalities the price system can not be expected to bring marginal costs and marginal benefits of these externalities into line . |
| 15 | Yet without these forward markets the price system can not be expected to ensure that the marginal cost and marginal benefits of planned future goods are equal . |