Example sentences of "they can not [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certain tender varieties of narcissi , like ‘ Paper White ’ and ‘ Grand Soleil d'Or ’ , are naturally early flowering and do not need a natural or artificial cool period in order to flower quickly and healthily indoors , but they can not be planted outside afterwards . |
| 2 | Often they can not be practised on the home site because they are not acceptable on a busy airfield . |
| 3 | All behaviouristic theories of cognition are viciously third-personal , where that expression signifies , first , that they can not be applied to the first-person perspective and , second that our ability to apply them to the third person really rests on our bringing to bear first-person knowledge : as with rats in mazes , where my plain and unreduced apprehension of the rat 's environment enables me to see its grasp of that environment in terms of its behaviour within it . |
| 4 | They can not be too strict about this relationship , for the score , whether commissioned or arranged , will only give some flavour of the traditional ways of singing and dancing . |
| 5 | Judgements made in the course of a lecture will be taken down in notes as if they were facts , whereas it is in the nature of critical judgements that they can not be taken over by others ; it is on this dilemma , I believe , that Leavisism ultimately foundered . |
| 6 | They can not be expected to consider the inflationary consequences of their commercial activities . |
| 7 | But since ministers , including the Prime Minister , are so fond of using statistics for the purposes of debate , they can not be allowed to make the contradictory claim that these figures are irrelevant . |
| 8 | Like the colour of the great shades in the saloon , they can not be replaced or even exactly reproduced . |
| 9 | They can not be seen from the village , but are visible from Anglesey across the Menai Strait . |
| 10 | But it , as I have suggested , the structures of identity formation at work here are fundamental to our existing cultural forms , they can not be considered as stemming only from the psychoanalytic tradition . |
| 11 | He also can not cite the sources for many of the bits he is allowed to reveal , with the result that they can not be independently checked . |
| 12 | The fact that several types of relatives can be called by the same term does not mean that they can not be distinguished . |
| 13 | The Epistles of St Paul and the Apocalyptic Book of Revelation contain many high and mystical expressions of belief about Christ but they can not be described as ‘ records ’ of the kind which would compel rational belief . |
| 14 | When back office problems lead to a suspension they can not be sorted out in short order . ’ |
| 15 | When back office problems lead to a suspension they can not be sorted out in short order . ’ |
| 16 | They can not be : they are mutuals , owned by their policyholders . |
| 17 | This does not mean that they can not be found in the world ; a child may wonder what shape or arrangement a triangle is , and have it pointed out to him . |
| 18 | We are not aware of these lines and angles of theoretical geometrical optics ; they can not be the intermediary by which we perceive distance . |
| 19 | This means that ideas can not be abstract , but it does not mean that they can not be general . |
| 20 | The assurances made to Abraham were not empty ones , as they can not be where God is concerned . |
| 21 | There are stone pots and earthenware ones with luxury glazes , ancient pots that you find at house sales in the country , and , of course , plastic pots which now come textured and coloured so closely to terracotta that they can not be told apart . |
| 22 | And why should we not think ill of the dead , she wondered suddenly , for they can not hear , word can not be passed to them , they can not be hurt . |
| 23 | Her camp confirms the lengths to which Kylie is prepared to go to maintain the environment-friendly campaign and reveals she REFUSES to handle everyday plastics , because they can not be broken down naturally and pose a threat to the habitat . |
| 24 | If they are destroyed , they can not be replaced , and the animal will be sterile . |
| 25 | The blue tits in any area may vary , but they can not be divided into two or more discrete groups ( except by sex , or by age ) , and the distinction between blue tits and great tits in any area is absolute ; intermediates do not exist because the two species do not interbreed . |
| 26 | Clearly they can not be detecting the direction of the rays of light and moving away from the source , because illumination is from above . |
| 27 | Surely they can not be the real thing but , in that case , is the 1689 William and Mary Coronation throne , covered in graffiti , only fibreglass ? |
| 28 | These achievements can be demonstrated in the remoter areas , with all their current problems , in fact , because of their current problems , in a manner in which they can not be demonstrated in the great centres of industrial and political power . |
| 29 | In view of the large number of requests made we are unable to advise you pre-departure if they can not be met . |
| 30 | This reactive approach is exemplified by realising , at the time when problems arise , that they can not be solved without adequate information . |