Example sentences of "they can not be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ stepped pyramids ’ may be characteristic of the Cornish landscape , but they can not be said to sit naturally in it . |
| 2 | On the right , while Italian and German agents were active in Spain and sympathetic to the Spanish right , they can not be said to have exerted pressure upon it or materially to have assisted it in subverting the Republic . |
| 3 | This will account for the fact that although it is the obvious lesson of Darwinism that species mutate , they can not be said to be aware of this nor in any sense to change themselves . |
| 4 | Since such orders are not the product of a directing intelligence they can not be said to have a particular purpose . |
| 5 | Though the novels of the Quartet are linked by common characters and motifs , they can not be said to have a continuous story line . |
| 6 | There are even those who ask why they can not be inspected by those who advise them . |
| 7 | This , together with the self–selecting nature of the sample , means that while the findings can aid understanding of the factors involved they can not be generalised to the wider population . |
| 8 | All behaviouristic theories of cognition are viciously third-personal , where that expression signifies , first , that they can not be applied to the first-person perspective and , second that our ability to apply them to the third person really rests on our bringing to bear first-person knowledge : as with rats in mazes , where my plain and unreduced apprehension of the rat 's environment enables me to see its grasp of that environment in terms of its behaviour within it . |
| 9 | The mastery of skills is of little use if they can not be applied . |
| 10 | Data analysis techniques were largely developed to cater for the implementation of database systems , although that does not mean that they can not be applied to non-database situations . |
| 11 | We have not included these qualities in our statements of attainment because they can not be mapped on to levels . |
| 12 | The difficulty with these checks is that they can not be adjusted to trap the returning hammers without hindering their upward motion . |
| 13 | If there is a single currency and economies get out of line , they can not be adjusted by movements of the exchange rate , which is the normal way — so what happens ? |
| 14 | Hubble and Just Do It are both fantastic in their own way , but they can not be compared . |
| 15 | Coincidentally , the UK Government 's Department of Health launches a ‘ Help us to help you ’ campaign , wherein sick people are advised how not to waste the limited funds available for their treatment ( ‘ … remember to cancel appointments if they can not be kept … ’ ) and reminded by the Secretary of State for Health that ‘ Our primary care system is also the source of considerable envy abroad ’ , as I was reminded again during a recent trip to Russia . |
| 16 | Acts like eating , sexual intercourse , and fighting are embedded in a socially shared set of associated symbols , and they can not be isolated from this semantic setting . |
| 17 | There may be many different bacterial species completely unknown because they can not be cultured . |
| 18 | Later of course as up this early infantile attitude where you idolize your parents becomes replaced by a more rational and so on , but Freud 's finding was that this early attitude in childhood does n't get er abolished , it just gets repressed , it 's forced out of conscious because you true and of course things that are not true have to be removed consciousness , but they can not be erased , so they 're forced into the unconscious and they live in the unconscious and they feed myths like the Myth of the Birth of the Hero and all of us in our er erm in our er conscious see the hero as a , as a parental figure that reflects the family romance , the idea that once we were , we were a special child with very special parents . |
| 19 | They can not be invoked against persons ‘ knowingly concerned in the contravention . ’ |
| 20 | Some risks are so great that they can not be tolerated under any circumstances , while others are so low that they can be tolerated without further justification ; between these extremes , assessment is needed . |
| 21 | Not all bishops were employed by the king and some of them had acquired their sees in the face of royal opposition ; they can not be dismissed as king 's men . |
| 22 | As such they can not be ignored , unlike the findings of a public inquiry which are purely advisory . |
| 23 | One may believe they are wrong or mad , but if war is to be avoided , they can not be ignored . |
| 24 | But , importantly , they can not be ignored nor can they be dismissed easily as irrational fabrications . |
| 25 | But for those with a relatively static model of the universe and more or less fixed expectations , the discrepancies are deeply troubling if they can not be ignored or resolved by supplementary perceptual categories . |
| 26 | They can not be ignored , but should always be given low weight compared with other terms in the search . |
| 27 | Paying all pre-payments into a trust account from which they can not be withdrawn until the package has been provided . |
| 28 | These deposits are then frozen — they can not be withdrawn by the banks . |
| 29 | Plants too will not come amiss if these are well rooted between stones so they can not be dug up . |
| 30 | Although every parent has the right in the fullness of time to decide whether he or she feels they can cope with their child , they can not be placed in a position of absolute power over its life if they have an extremely misleading impression of the form that that child 's life might take . |