Example sentences of "can not [be] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where are we off to this morning then , so sunk in our own fantasies and imaginings that we can not be troubled to look out for vulnerable senior citizens , eh ? ’ |
| 2 | The worry is that the jury can not be made to abide by directions of this kind , and so it is alleged that , if no evidential weight attaches to the refusal to answer , it would be better to exclude it altogether than to run the risk . |
| 3 | The structure of the wheel remains alongside the north-west elevation of the mill , although the wooden paddles have entirely rotted away and it can not be made to turn ( Plate 43 ) . |
| 4 | A bees ' nest has only a single entrance , so air can not be made to flow through it as it does through a prairie dog 's tunnel . |
| 5 | When a tenant 's right to occupy comes to an end , the tenant can not be made to leave against his or her will , except by a court order . |
| 6 | Indeed , Dorinda now advises other women to recognize that beauty can not be made to last , and Leapor closes the poem urging women to improve themselves spiritually so that old age will be satisfying : |
| 7 | As always , however , these are nicely balanced by examples of people who have gone ‘ a bridge too far ’ , stuck with totally unobtainable ambitions and allowed the whole company to be pushed into the pursuit , usually , of a product dream which the market has quite clearly rejected and which can not be made to fly . |
| 8 | In the United States the Supreme Court ruled some twenty years ago that " the weight of a citizen 's vote can not be made to depend on where he lives " . |
| 9 | The musical personality of Grimes , devised for Pears , can not be made to fit the character of the libretto . |
| 10 | It can not be made to stand up again . |
| 11 | ( b ) A bye-law made under this paragraph clearly can not be made to apply to hotel or restricted hotel licences . |
| 12 | Real concrete problems , such as the fact that Germany is the biggest trading nation in Europe , 50% more populous than France or Britain , that she holds half of the Soviet Union 's debt and has lent more money in government-guaranteed credit to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union , can not be made to disappear with words . |
| 13 | However , there do appear to exist examples of gradual variation which can not be made to share a superordinate ; in such cases the absence of boundaries between senses is an embarrassment . |
| 14 | There are certain classes of English word combinations that can not be explained using existing syntactic or semantic theories . |
| 15 | There are certain classes of English word combinations that can not be explained using existing syntactic or semantic theories . |
| 16 | At present you can not be asked to pay the Defendant 's legal costs , even if you decide to abandon your claim . |
| 17 | Even taking the analogy of biopsy , the doctors can not be asked to prescribe the remedy until they have received the analysis of the suspect tissue . |
| 18 | Exhibition space was not needed the library eschews blockbusters , and its permanent collection of books , manuscripts and works on paper can not be exposed to light too often . |
| 19 | Although much further research is required , evidently connectionist models can provide a framework for modelling comprehension phenomena that can not be tackled using ordinary serial or symbolic models . |
| 20 | The couple , of Acton , West London , can not be named to protect the girl 's identity . |
| 21 | The 40-year-old woman from Wakefield , West Yorkshire — who can not be named to protect her child 's identity — was charged with murdering John William Lockwood ( 65 ) of Halton Road , Wakefield . |
| 22 | The man , who can not be named to protect the identities of his victims , pleaded guilty to five sample counts of rape , three indecent assaults , one charge of buggery and one of gross indecency . |
| 23 | The 38-year-old man , who can not be named to protect the identity of his victim , tortured her with an electric stun gun during the ordeal in front of their children , the court heard . |
| 24 | Before describing the ways in which pipes can and can not be joined to soil stacks , it is necessary to have a look at the different materials used in waste plumbing . |
| 25 | In the case of s 48(2) ( h ) the argument outlined above , that the use of the word " enabling " impliedly authorises modification of the common law duty of disclosure since a person can not be enabled to do that which he is free to do , may nevertheless prevail . |
| 26 | It was noted that without clear identification of needs , programmes can not be evaluated to see how effectively needs have been satisfied , and without evaluation , programmes can not be planned to achieve their objective of effective satisfaction of needs . |
| 27 | Clearly this is simplistic , if not mischievous , but on the other hand , we can only measure the measurable , and if science as a subject can not be studied using scientific methods — deduction and induction , prediction and experiment — then measures of its output , in the form of scientific publications , have no logical validity . |
| 28 | Clearly this is simplistic , if not mischievous , but on the other hand , we can only measure the measurable , and if science as a subject can not be studied using scientific methods — deduction and induction , prediction and experiment — then measures of its output , in the form of scientific publications , have no logical validity . |
| 29 | Health policy did not escape this intellectual challenge , but policy prescription can not be assumed to lead to policy change . |
| 30 | Even those entries — unquestionably the majority — which represent profits accruing from physical possession of land can not be assumed to hold a uniform significance . |