Example sentences of "it can not be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amateur theatre flourishes almost everywhere , and when you 're beginning it can not be stressed too strongly that it is desirable to obtain some actual stage experience before jumping into the big pool of drama school , or even summer school . |
| 2 | It can not be ; it is impossible : |
| 3 | It can not be known beforehand , he wrote . |
| 4 | It can be made , he wrote , but it can not be thought . |
| 5 | The disadvantage of rope or parafil is that it can not be retrieved at high speed without the friction overheating and burning the material . |
| 6 | However , it can not be denied that incompetent side-slipping and sideslipping close to the ground can cause accidents . |
| 7 | The child 's cognisant acts have the character of perceptions : if an act is done it can not be undone ( ‘ reversed ’ in the jargon ) and so there is no going back and taking another perspective on the question or practical problem . |
| 8 | It can not be repeated too often that a dancer requires less time to make a statement than do words or music . |
| 9 | But this it can not be said , can only be shown forth as in the suicide letter where Stavrogin writes ‘ My desires are too weak ; they can not guide me . ’ |
| 10 | Furthermore it can not be assumed that all RDS information will be received accurately at all times . |
| 11 | I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea . |
| 12 | It can not be given to many scientists to be outstanding as experimenter , technical innovator and teacher ; Kuypers was unquestionably all of these . |
| 13 | ‘ If it can not be avoided , it will have to happen , ’ he told the Chartered Institute of Transport on 4 May . |
| 14 | ‘ But given the nature of his activities it can not be excluded that this was a political attack . ’ |
| 15 | He said : ‘ It 's a question of definitions of purpose of establishment in a tough fashion — it can not be anything else — of priorities . |
| 16 | And it can not be ruled out that even higher interest rates - whatever the political consequences — would be used in the last resort . |
| 17 | It can not be allowed to drift into complacency . |
| 18 | In a political system characterised by policy through stalemate , it can not be tolerated . |
| 19 | It can not be very comfortable , for it consists merely of an uneven depression on top of the stone wall , barely softened by dust and a few wisps of hay . |
| 20 | It can not be recalled in any coherent form . |
| 21 | If balance is important it can not be limited to public television . |
| 22 | It can not be used on suede or synthetic materials . |
| 23 | For example , it can not be right that the Government should retain as offices private houses and blocks of flats while homeless families are dossed down in imperfectly converted workhouses , or forced to ‘ squat ’ in Nissen huts . |
| 24 | The counterpart is that by its nature it can not be shared with those who by disposition or location are incapable of being represented in the Parliament of the United Kingdom . |
| 25 | Finally , if the manager were to get into financial difficulties , and his or her creditors required payment , it should be clear that no money in this account belongs to the manager , and it can not be used to settle the manager 's personal debts . |
| 26 | It can not be done . |
| 27 | Commitment to sport has to be freely given ; it has to be fun ; it can not be foisted on to the poor or the wayward from above because it is good for them . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ It can not be irrelevant to evangelism that so many unbelievers think the place we give to women in the Church is frankly absurd . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It can not be right that a tenant in Middlesbrough , where housing is cheap , pays more than a tenant in Camden , where costs are very much higher , where well-paid jobs are much easier to come by , and there is such a concentration of commercial facilities . ’ |