Example sentences of "can not [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to say that particulars can not under any circumstances be contextually individuated via " impersonal " descriptions . |
| 2 | Again Lord Sands stated in the MacFarlane case at p540 : The contention of the Appellant involves that he is liable to Income Tax in respect of income which he does not handle and can not under any arrangement handle , which is not expended under any authority conferred by him , and over the expenditure of which he has no control . |
| 3 | Sir , — I can not for one moment imagine that Ian McGeechan will ‘ feel hugely satisfied because his backs are beginning to fulfil some of the potential that they have shown for years ’ ( David Sole , 8 March ) after the disappointment of the 26-12 humiliation by England last Saturday . |
| 4 | It is no defence for the officer to say he does not know and can not with reasonable diligence find out who the driver was . |
| 5 | Perhaps Spinoza could have strengthened it in various ways , by saying that people can not on odd occasions deliberately act out of the character they try to give their lives , without destroying that character , and that for the rational person the character of a life which includes good relations with other people at large is essential for personal fulfilment . |
| 6 | ‘ [ T ] he state ’ can not on any sensible political theory be restricted to the Crown and the departments of central government ( which are , indeed , part of the Crown in constitutional law ) . |
| 7 | The second episode which Mrs Whitehouse says she remembers with a mixture of ‘ amusement and incredulity ’ involved a scene in which Alf and his son-in-law were in the living room reading : Mike , a football book , and Alf a book that can not at first be seen . |
| 8 | As she approaches it , she can not at first see Alix , but she believes that Alix will be there , and indeed momently she is : they converge , Esther from the west , Alix from the south , and moderate their pace ( Esther accelerating slightly , Alix marginally slowing down ) so that they meet upon the very corner itself . |
| 9 | As for ( c ) , there will be an appropriation for the purposes of theft if the accused can not at first discover the owner but later finds out the identity . |
| 10 | They are taking responsibility , either they agree with their government or they do not agree with their government , but to pretend that somehow we can not at all , some of the cuts that are made , that the f the other , does not convince us , I 'm sure it does not convince the people on our right and even less more convincing than the people who are listening to us today . |
| 11 | Therefore it can not at any stage , whether as embryo or fetus , be regarded as part of its mother 's body . |
| 12 | Surely Baldwin , whatever his desire earlier in the imbroglio , can not at this stage have wished to go back to the Cabinet on the following morning and announce that a wayward King , who had already compromised his position with most opinion both at home and in the Dominions , had suddenly changed his mind , at least temporarily , and , having attracted the maximum publicity to his preference for Mrs Simpson over the Throne , was now prepared to ditch her and try to pick up again the pieces of kingship . |
| 13 | Presumptions of legislative intent , which draw their strength from judicial perceptions of widely held notions of justice and fairness , can not in normal circumstances override the explicit terms of an Act of Parliament . |
| 14 | One can not in such circumstances as these , please everybody all of the time . |
| 15 | Thus the Catholic conservatives believe the church to be a God-given institution which can not in major ways have gone astray . |
| 16 | He claims that the meaning of a token in a representational system can not in general be captured definitionally ( in terms of semantic primitives , for instance ) , but depends upon the entire formalization of which the token is part . |
| 17 | And apologists for Labour 's refusal to organise in Northern Ireland can not in all conscience describe themselves as democrats . |
| 18 | Now it might be argued that the resultant sense of dog here is caused by contextual modulation of the general sense : dog can not in this context refer to females if logical consistency is to be preserved , which leaves only males as possible referents . |
| 19 | But we can not in this case take the flow of newly issued bills , or even the net flow ( new issues minus redemptions ) as the supply and learn anything useful from it about the operation of the market . |
| 20 | Night netting is by far the most successful aspect of all long-netting , but that does not mean that rabbits can not in some circumstances be netted in broad daylight . |
| 21 | In fact , it is quite hard to think of a dream-image which can not in some way be ingeniously linked to an aspect of the dreamer 's sex-life , lack of it , or attitudes towards it . |
| 22 | It was submitted on behalf of Mr Street that the court can not in these circumstances decide that the agreement created a tenancy without interfering with the freedom of contract enjoyed by both parties . |
| 23 | Choreographers can not in any way change the ways in which their dancers move . |
| 24 | Dittmar 's remarks can not in any way be attributed to sour grapes . |
| 25 | The position a reader will take up certainly can not in any simple sense be read off from the text considered in abstract . |
| 26 | These words can not in any way be regarded as precatory of the trustee . |
| 27 | If this were so we would not find the genuine uneasiness about an influx of strangers ( or outside influences ) that can not in any realistic sense threaten the members of the group as individuals , for instance , the insistence by sections of the US citizens that English — of all languages — has to be given protection against immigrant languages by the grant of an official monopoly of public use . |
| 28 | By its very nature , faith rests and must rest in a ‘ storm-free territory ’ which mere historical consideration and reconsideration can not in any way disturb . |
| 29 | Rhee hoped the United States and Britain would recognise his provisional government ; a British Foreign Office minute from March 1945 reads , ‘ These people can not in any true sense be said to represent Korea and Anglo-US recognition of them might well lead to those [ problems ] we have experienced over the ‘ London Poles ’ . |
| 30 | If it does not , it can not in any event lie against a visitor on that basis . |