Example sentences of "can [not/n't] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.

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1 The customer can not be bound to the finance company by his signature on a document which the finance company 's agent knows does not reflect the customer 's intention .
2 Replacement seats can not be fitted to Supataps .
3 The scatter at the high end — small numbers of authors publishing large numbers of papers — is so large that a straight line can not be fitted to this graph with any degree of confidence .
4 The scatter at the high end — small numbers of authors publishing large numbers of papers — is so large that a straight line can not be fitted to this graph with any degree of confidence .
5 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 .
6 Most certainly it can not be applied to the peasant buildings of a century or so later .
7 At least with the man , a urethritis can be diagnosed , albeit imperfectly , by noticing pus cells in the urethra , but the same criteria can not be applied to the woman .
8 This means that the kind of discount which supermarkets , for example , are able to offer on other consumer goods can not be applied to books .
9 While the double-blind trial is well suited to testing of conventional drugs it often can not be applied to complementary therapies , for instance , the acupuncturist must establish a close link with the patient during treatment , and the therapist must know which points he is needling and possibly modify them as the patient 's responses change .
10 The equation linking trades unionism with Labour 's advance can not be applied to London ; not only were unions weak , but in the interwar period suffered setbacks as the depression deepened .
11 This criticism can not be applied to the results for 1984–90 .
12 ‘ Realism maintains that universal moral principles can not be applied to the actions of states in their abstract universal formulation . ’
13 This rule can not be applied to items from the newer weaving countries ( Pakistan and the Balkans , etc ) which produce workshop versions of almost any type of design .
14 He argues that the ‘ local state ’ is not simply the national state writ small , and that a general theory of the state can not be applied to the local level .
15 First , the models are one-dimensional only and can not be applied to a real solid .
16 The general technique for converting an equation valid for SR into one valid in all frames , namely replacing normal derivatives by covariant derivatives , can not be applied to gravitation .
17 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 .
18 I said that ROM can not be written to except when it is first manufactured , and that is true also of the DNA in cells , except for occasional random errors in copying .
19 Mr Fuchs has made it clear that he can not be called to task for the museum 's deficit and has blamed two principal factors .
20 If balance is important it can not be limited to public television .
21 The article shows that the interpretation of a text can not be limited to a purely linguistic analysis and advocates the case for the " bibliographical and productive histories of the poems we read " ( p. 205 ) .
22 The question of criminal liability can not be relegated to a matter of medical consensus .
23 The Kingdom is not and can not be relegated to an appendix which follows the turning of the last page of world history .
24 On flat surfaces this action is minimised by laying a carpet of light-reflective white limestone chippings on the asphalt , but this treatment can not be extended to sloping sections or to roofs carrying regular foot-traffic .
25 As safety in shared spaces is currently sought by short sight lines , this variant of the principle can not be extended to residential roads in general .
26 ‘ Whilst there may be sanctuary men and sanctuary women — ’ he pointed out , producing as it were his trump card , ‘ — since children can commit no crime for which asylum would be needed , the privilege of sanctuary can not be extended to them .
27 For instance , in the eight queens problem , the position Q can not be extended to a goal because no queen can ever be put in the left file .
28 The most common criticism of HARPY is that its approach can not be extended to larger vocabularies and/or more habitable grammars .
29 For the moment , it means that recently completed properties can not be connected to the sewage system in 43 towns and suburbs .
30 Art can not be raised to a pure effusion at a single onset . ’
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