Example sentences of "can [not/n't] be [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , many innovations are school-wide in their application and can not be implemented at all unless a number of teachers , perhaps even the entire staff of a school , both agree to , and become committed to , their implementation . |
| 2 | The truth of this belief can not be tested at present . |
| 3 | Marriages can not be ended at will or whim . |
| 4 | If this interpretation of the function is correct , that is , if is in reality a disequilibrium adjustment mechanism , then it can not be treated at one and the same time as a trade off relation . |
| 5 | Assessment can not be made at birth because antibodies to HIV from the mother cross the placenta , and though these would be detected in an HIV antibody test , it would not show whether the baby itself was infected . |
| 6 | ( 3 ) A requirement under this section to provide a specimen of blood or urine can only be made at a police station or at a hospital ; and it can not be made at a police station unless — ( a ) the constable making the requirement has reasonable cause to believe that for medical reasons a specimen of breath can not be provided or should not be required , or ( b ) at the time the requirement is made a device or a reliable device of the type mentioned in subsection ( 1 ) ( a ) above is not available at the police station or it is then for any other reason not practicable to use such a device there , or ( c ) the suspected offence is one under section 4 of this Act and the constable making the requirement has been advised by a medical practitioner that the condition of the person required to provide the specimen might be due to some drug ; but may then be made notwithstanding that the person required to provide the specimen has already provided or been required to provide two specimens of breath . |
| 7 | Our previous work has shown that actinomycin binding to T 9 GCA 9 is different to ( AT ) n GC(AT) n since the footprinting with the former can not be detected at 4°C [ 25 ] . |
| 8 | The current DC can not be progressed at this stage . |
| 9 | Regrettably awnings can not be accepted at Sandaway. 500 yards walk to Combe Martin . |
| 10 | The stated goals of actors or groups can not be accepted at face value since such statements may be the simple camouflage of more sinister or at least less acceptable policy goals . |
| 11 | In this new state , the rule for unstack can not be applied at all , but the rule for stack has six instances : x is any one of the three blocks ; y is any block other than x . |
| 12 | But without wealth they can not be tackled at all . |
| 13 | However , if the ribs can not be felt at all , the horse is too fat . |
| 14 | Solicitors are not permitted to enter into an agreement with their clients that purports to exclude their liability for professional misconduct ( which extends to professional negligence ) though subject to the following rules liability can be limited by contract : ( 1 ) liability may not be limited below the minimum level of cover afforded under the Indemnity Fund ; ( 2 ) liability can not be limited at all for fraud or reckless disregard of professional obligations ; ( 3 ) s60(5) of the Solicitors Act avoids any provision in a contentious business agreement purporting to exclude the liability of a solicitor for negligence or to relieve him of his professional responsibilities ; ( 4 ) ss2(2) and 11(4) of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 will apply to agreements between solicitors and their clients to ensure that limited liability provisions which do not fall foul of any other rule comply with the essential requirement of reasonableness . |
| 15 | The implicit recognition of this in their work is obscured by the distinction they make between ‘ direct experience ’ and more ‘ abstract ’ ‘ underlying ’ causes which can not be grasped at the level of immediate experience . |
| 16 | Supercomputing — High-performance computers costing millions of pounds can not be sited at every university that needs their computational power ; Yet the vast amounts of data they produce require advanced data visualisation techniques for their human understanding . |
| 17 | A great deal of care in both societies , however , can be seen to be effective , and a good deal more can not be evaluated at all . |
| 18 | This is because kinship links are strongly morally and socially charged , while those between worker and employer are impersonal , because kinship implies reciprocal rights and duties while the capitalist has all the rights and the worker all the duties , because kinship links can not be broken at will while those of the labour market can , and because , as Marx and Engels wrongly believed , kinship links are egalitarian and non-exploitative ; that is , they do not involve one group of people living on the back of another . |
| 19 | It can not be assumed at the outset that all elements are the product of similar processes of objectification . |
| 20 | Since this is one aspect of the " ongoing negotiation " and preferences of " newcomers " to the interaction can not be assumed at the outset , the circumstances which will most favour a speedy agreement to use Creole are those where there are few participants — ideally the minimum , two — and these individuals are already well known to each other , and known to favour Creole . |
| 21 | Yes , so domestic policies , you know , can not be viewed at in isolation , right . |
| 22 | Only market failure can justify vertical integration , for example where F is one of a limited number of sources of a critical supply , or where the supplier-customer relationship requires trust and secrecy which can not be secured at arm 's length . |
| 23 | The argument can not be stopped at this simple point , however . |
| 24 | The transition from one to the other takes place after a few seconds of observation , is discontinous and can not be stopped at in an intermediate position . |
| 25 | The effects of the inversion decreases southeastwards and can not be seen at all in the south of Quadrant 53 . |
| 26 | Some words can not be pronounced at all until their meaning has been recognised . |
| 27 | The force of their own gravity is so great that their collapse can not be halted at all . |
| 28 | The phase current can not be maintained at its rated value and therefore the torque produced by the motor is reduced . |
| 29 | The wasteful and destructive life-styles of the rich can not be maintained at the cost of the lives and livelihood of the poor , and of nature . |
| 30 | His final reflection was that ‘ such a picture can not be defined at all until we find a way of describing whatever it is that makes first-rate entertainment what it is ’ . |