Example sentences of "can [not/n't] be [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have discharged my duty , she thought , I can not be troubled by my conscience in that respect . |
| 2 | Our deductive practice needs no such justificatory shoring up and can not be revised by rational argument , hence there is no circularity in deploying it in the explanation . |
| 3 | However , if untraceable shareholders ( plus dissenting shareholders ) exceed that percentage and the procedures can not be implemented by the offeror as a result , the offeror will have to make an application to court under s430C ( 5 ) for an order for leave to give notices under s429 , despite the fact the 90 per cent threshold has not been reached . |
| 4 | 80 inch steering boxes are unique and can not be replaced by another without great modifications to the 80. 86 inch to 109 inch SI to SIII will all swap but there are two types of steering wheel splines . |
| 5 | Do so can not be replaced by a ‘ copy ’ of part of the first clause . |
| 6 | If they can not be replaced by more adequate instruments , an electric keyboard can lie appropriate . |
| 7 | Relatives say the care and dedication of staff at Thornton Lodge Hospital , Wensleydale , can not be replaced by alternative plans . |
| 8 | It is for the court to decide the weight which should be given to statements which are not made on oath and can not be tested by cross-examination . |
| 9 | In the former , Service departments are asked to list their lowest priority items , and to state the implications of their demise if the books can not be balanced by other means . |
| 10 | A situation could arise where harmful bacteria , having become immune to disinfectants , survive to cause illness which can not be treated by antibiotics . |
| 11 | The directory you have specified when creating a new charge code using option 7.7.1 — Create Charge Code , can not be accessed by LIFESPAN . |
| 12 | Action : Module is password protected and can not be accessed by this user |
| 13 | protests can not be made by the contestant involved . |
| 14 | An entry can not be made by an instrument used to make an entry such as a key or piece of wire used to pull back internal bolts . |
| 15 | They can claim to represent local public opinion ; such a claim can not be made by those who serve on public bodies as a result of government nomination . |
| 16 | ‘ For the purposes of this section a threat can not be made by the use of words alone . ’ |
| 17 | The ions and many of the compounds can not be made by direct combination of their constituent elements . |
| 18 | The strands are so fine that they usually can not be detected by cetacean sonar , unlike the older type of multifilament cotton nets . |
| 19 | At the bottom of his stride , a runner 's built-in spring is most highly charged , but this third type of energy can not be detected by the force plate . |
| 20 | It is important to see that even this qualified recognition of authority , the recognition of the authority of just governments to impose prima facie obligations on their subjects , can not be supported by the argument of the normal justification thesis . |
| 21 | It can not be supported by evidence . |
| 22 | Women of darkness ; Lady Macbeth , Mozart 's Queen of the Night , even Cathy , in Emily Brontë 's Wuthering Heights , with her fierce loves and hates which can not be bound by the rules of day . |
| 23 | However the analogy should not be over-extended : a new State can not be bound by the terms of a trust concluded between other States , for that would be contrary to the incidents of Statehood , including sovereign equality . |
| 24 | Although any " alternative doctrine must be highly speculative " , the influential Halsbury 's Laws of England goes on to recognise that : " for many constitutional theorists the question of whether parliamentary sovereignty presupposes that Parliament must always remain sovereign and can not be bound by the legislation of its predecessors , or whether Parliament 's sovereignty entitles it to restrict its power to legislate , or deprive itself of the power to legislate , remains open . " |
| 25 | This is the position known as materialism ; it is opposed to idealism which , in a broad sense , sees the basis of human existence as abstract spiritual concepts whose origin can not be explained by natural circumstances . |
| 26 | Whatever went wrong in the years of Mary 's personal rule , therefore , simply can not be explained by inherited weakness ; her problems have nothing to do with insecure monarchy and overmighty subjects . |
| 27 | Their slow learning can not be explained by assuming that the pre-exposed tone tended to evoke a response that interfered with lever pressing . |
| 28 | Unlike material from the Earth and other meteorites , carbonaceous chondrites have oxygen-isotope abundances which can not be explained by purely mass-related effects . |
| 29 | This difference can not be explained by a higher level of prosecutions for regulatory offences . |
| 30 | If Jones has outlived Smith this can not be explained by showing that he earlier had the higher life expectancy , and then arguing that this duly caused him to live the longer life . |