Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [adv] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This provides that a company must have a secretary and that a sole director can not also be secretary . |
| 2 | If auditors are referees , they can not also be players . |
| 3 | Marxists too often tend to take a cavalier attitude towards the findings of such polls — anything which people ought not to think , according to socialist ideology , is regarded as the product of ‘ media manipulation ’ and can not really be people 's own considered view . |
| 4 | Surely anything manufactured before the implementation of the dreaded Value Added can not suddenly be VAT applicable ? |
| 5 | Indeed , as the conventional dominant does not exist in a whole-tone scale ( perfect fifths are not available ) , there can not possibly be effects of resolution such as we find in dominant-tonic harmonic movements . |