Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All geometric and textural data are held within a part file that closely represents a dustbin , thus information can not be selectively retrieved ; a piece of an object can only be viewed by displaying the whole part file . |
| 2 | The plaintiffs ' next contention has been described as the proprietary argument to the effect that Mr. and Mrs. Tully are constructive trustees for the plaintiffs of the moneys claimed in the action , that a court of equity will not hesitate to protect and preserve a trust fund in interlocutory proceedings on the principle that , if the trust fund disappears , it will turn out that equity has been invoked to no purpose and that a claim for privilege can not be successfully raised against an order which permits a plaintiff to search for and to seize his own property , including property which is in the possession of the defendant . |
| 3 | The ASB is conducting research at the moment into whether a permanent diminution could be measured , a solution Mr Garner says he could ‘ live with' , but if that can not be successfully implemented , he hopes that TI 's method will be the one companies fall back on . |
| 4 | This method can not be successfully recorded . |
| 5 | Our environmental goals can not be successfully achieved unless action is taken across the Community . |
| 6 | The exercise of these powers can not be successfully challenged in the courts unless it can be shown that the Home Secretary has acted unreasonably or perversely . |
| 7 | There are really only three types of people who can not be successfully hypnotized . |
| 8 | However the textured topside can easily mark or snag , and paste can not be successfully removed from it . |
| 9 | The construction does not , I think , accomplish this , and there are reasons to believe that it can not be successfully carried out . |
| 10 | With some hindsight we began to realise that the design and control of large systems can not be successfully accomplished without exceedingly large quantities of information . |
| 11 | Modern technologies can not be successfully used if they are simply imposed on an unwilling and underskilled workforce . |
| 12 | The key lesson of this case study is that order can not be coercively imposed , and that some form of political consensus is necessary if escalation is to be avoided . |
| 13 | However , the chemical inertness of the inert gases means that though they can be physically trapped in rocks they can not be chemically combined to form significant quantities of non-volatile materials . |
| 14 | The very essence of the word ‘ belief ’ is that it is a conclusion based upon thought and experience but one which can not be irrefutably proved . |
| 15 | It is fairly safe to eat game and animals which can not be intensively reared . |
| 16 | A proper engineering drawing can not be thus fudged ; like Wolf , the draughtsman must fully comprehend what he is drawing . |
| 17 | Similarly the value of something is intrinsically bound up with the way in which someone who recognizes it is drawn to it , or repelled by it if the value is negative , but is not merely a disposition to attract or repel , for we can not be thus attracted or repelled except by recognizing ( or at least seeming to recognize ) a value |
| 18 | The fact that the " adornment " theory was entertained for so long deserves some explanation and its appropriateness can not be altogether dismissed in the case of " artificial " styles cultivated by such Renaissance mannerists as Sidney and Lyly . |
| 19 | As for his qualities and accomplishments , they can not be altogether passed over in what is intended to be , however inadequate , a whole-hearted tribute of affection , admiration and regard . |
| 20 | It is a sociocultural category of the highest importance , but just because of this it can not be empirically presumed . |
| 21 | However , disputes arising out of , or in connection with , this contract which can not be amicably settled , may ( if you so wish ) be referred to arbitration under a special Scheme , which , though devised by arrangement with the Association of British Travel Agents , is administered quite independently by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators . |
| 22 | A decision by a customer to change a source of supply usually involves substantial fixed costs in setting up new systems of distribution and servicing which can not be immediately written off against lower supply prices . |
| 23 | So at low enough temperatures , with the gate voltage , Vg , chosen to put EF in a mobility gap , all the current is in effect carried by electrons that can not be dissipatively scattered , and the resistance falls to zero . |
| 24 | The current then comprises mobile electrons that can not be dissipatively scattered , and which of course have exactly balanced transverse forces to give longitudinal motion without sideways deflection . |
| 25 | However , the problem is that , if this is true , there is nothing whatever that I , in my capacity as a subject of experiences , can coherently and unequivocally say about myself as a corporeal subject ( not even that I do have a body ) ; and hence that , strictly speaking , the theory itself can not be clearly stated ! |
| 26 | The original environment of human evolutionary adaptedness can not be clearly defined because our evolution has been such an extraordinary progression of expansive diversifications in adapting to an immense range of environments . |
| 27 | However , while the extension of such major structural elements as the Highland Boundary Fault and the Southern Uplands Fault into Ireland is probable , their position can not be clearly defined , largely due to the extensive cover of Mesozoic and Cainozoic sedimentary rocks and plateau basalts . |
| 28 | Despite this finding , the two classes of junction we have created on the basis of their phosphorus chemical shift can not be clearly distinguished in terms of the energetics of the B I -B II transition . |
| 29 | Since distinct evidence for political actions is contained overwhelmingly in official records , repudiating the use of other forms of cultural documents on the grounds that they can not be clearly interpreted becomes an implicit acceptance of the state 's officially articulated view of social , political and cultural organisation . |
| 30 | Modern prehistorians do not any more attach such importance to the introduction of pottery , which can not be clearly correlated with such things as agriculture . |