Example sentences of "can not be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important to realise that divine impassibility is an aspect of God 's immutability , that God is utter perfection and completely self-sufficient and therefore can not be subject to change . |
| 2 | Animals can not be parties to a lawsuit , or be said to be guilty , they can not be subject to the duties that attach to rights . |
| 3 | Just give me one good reason why you and Charles can not be married at once . ’ |
| 4 | Again , it is not totally inappropriate that this sort of overlap should exist since RMI must build upon the data that exist within the service ; it can not be separate and unrelated to that which currently exists . |
| 5 | The client should be advised that terms can not be watertight — the need to satisfy the statutory test of reasonableness allows terms to be challenged , but in many cases the drafter should be able to provide assurance that the terms will probably satisfy the test . |
| 6 | Note that the children have seen that the outcome of the game can not be pre-planned , and are likely to take this understanding with them to the Example continued drama itself . |
| 7 | This can not be logical , and there is some support for landlords who feel justified in requiring the proceeds to be paid to them on the basis that a lease is for a limited duration but the freehold ( where applicable ) is for life . |
| 8 | From this , they should come to recognise that judgements about what is appropriate or correct can not be immutable . |
| 9 | Government can not be indifferent to the long-term success of business . |
| 10 | At present , contracts are used for almost all energy trade and the countries of the Community can not be indifferent to the contractual arrangements under which they secure the energy on which they depend . |
| 11 | The accountant can not be worrying about money coming in . |
| 12 | Nuclear technology can not be uninvented . |
| 13 | Scanners can not be uninvented . |
| 14 | We can not be certain . |
| 15 | The plain answer is that we can not be certain about it . |
| 16 | Non measurable standards , that is ones where you can not be certain whether or not a specific desired result has been achieved tend to cause trouble since they are easily challenged . |
| 17 | Of course , I can not be certain it is carp and not some other species eating the bait , but I know it will be fun finding out when the 16th arrives . |
| 18 | That explanation depends on the presence of molecular oxygen in the gas cloud that was condensing to form the Sun , something the San Diego chemists think was likely , although they can not be certain . |
| 19 | This proved to be far in excess of the minimum required for immunity , and although the researchers can not be certain of directly comparable results in man , the prospects seem reasonably good . |
| 20 | Each answer seems to have some merit , but we can not be certain which is the definitive one . |
| 21 | One can not be certain , in such circumstances , that a court of law would meekly accept a general return to a writ in the face of clear knowledge that the House was , in effect , seeking to usurp the role of Parliament itself . |
| 22 | But we can not be certain : all we know about Julian is what she tells us herself in her book . |
| 23 | It 's important though to remember that the value of the investment itself will fluctuate so you can not be certain of getting capital back intact . |
| 24 | As one attaches the paragraphs to the semantic net , one can not be certain from which direction the paragraph will be visited . |
| 25 | The simple statistical confirmation that the majority of them were from 1984 onwards — and probably from that particular Friday , though one can not be certain — in the skies above the Pacific Ocean was ( for me and I suspect for most who came to know ) the first and final affirmation that from now on this part of the world was the centre of things . |
| 26 | For where it has been drawn is everywhere ; from the insistence of Thorndike , and the early behaviourists like Watson and Hull , that all is to be explained , including human behaviour , in terms of conditioned reflexes , to the open-handedness of well-meaning liberationists like Rollin who argue that even worms and sea anemones should be given the benefit of the doubt since we can not be certain that they do not feel pain and therefore have a consciousness ( 1981 : 31 ) . |
| 27 | The weaker claim is that although one can not be certain that beneficial results will accrue , there are grounds for the probability that they will . |
| 28 | However , we can not be certain whether the subsequent rise in recorded incidents stems from the way the public refers domestic violence to the police or from a real increase in domestic strife . |
| 29 | Short of a series of studies which is designed directly to compare regional patterns , holding other variables constant , we can not be certain that any observed variations can be attributed to , say , people 's views about family responsibilities being different in the north-east of England from the prevailing norms in the south-west . |
| 30 | Consequently if the state appears to be autonomous due to the action of elected elites , we can not be certain whether political leaderships are behaving as ‘ state ’ elites or ‘ social ’ elites . |