Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four years after the murder of ‘ little Gregory ’ his successor is still pondering the whole business , and until he makes up his mind Mrs Villemin can not finally be cleared of all suspicion , and her husband can not be tried for shooting Mr Laroche . |
| 2 | Theologically , the Churches of the East can not finally be different from Churches anywhere else . |
| 3 | One problem of assignment has already been encountered : in Chapter 9 we saw how , although and are clearly distinct in most contexts , there are other contexts where we find a sound which can not clearly be said to belong to one or other of these two phonemes . |
| 4 | We have seen that any such claim about the distribution of wealth could not have been and can not today be legitimately sustained . |
| 5 | In the innumerable African models , men , women and children are forever on the move , making and remaking , in a single lifetime , domestic forms which can not logically be called households … marriage … in Africa is an extremely fragile bond . |
| 6 | This may be due either to the covalently but reversibly crosslinked intermediate formed prior to methyltransfer ( Figure 1 , structure 2 ) or to an unspecific side-reaction ( e.g. presence in the synthetic oligonucleotides of trace quantities of reactive molecular species of unknown structure and capable of unspecific crosslinking can not strictly be ruled out ) . |
| 7 | Note that aggregate supply can not strictly be regarded as being the same as national income . |
| 8 | It can not exactly be ascribed as a right of the pupil , however , since he can not ensure that the other schools and so on ask for the record . |
| 9 | The difficulties can not plausibly be attributed to the compilers , who would hardly have confined themselves almost exclusively to interfering with the text of Scaevola . |
| 10 | First , he argued that it is highly artificial to construe all consumption as a response to needs ; while this approach may seem illuminating when it is applied to the consumption of individuals , it can not plausibly be extended to productive consumption , which has to be treated as ‘ the consumption which satisfies the needs of production ’ , if the theory is to be sustained . |
| 11 | But it can not plausibly be said that it is wholly impracticable . |
| 12 | The man who hopes to be Chancellor next week can not surely be preparing a leap in the dark . |
| 13 | If Ayer then tells the theist that he or she is still unable to make meaningful theological statements , then it can not surely be on the basis of the verification principle , the principle by which he claims to distinguish meaningful from meaningless statements . |
| 14 | I can not surely be alone in feeling |
| 15 | Four-coach trains regularly substituted for eight- coach , with passengers jam-packed way beyond the safety margin acceptable to a factory inspector , let alone providing a modicum of comfort , can not surely be explained away simply as lack of funding or union intransigence . |
| 16 | ( Well , she thought , we can not surely be meant to play together ? |
| 17 | Thus Kafka 's novel The Trial , for example , can be read , from different positions , as ( a ) mediation by projection — an arbitrary and irrational social system is not directly described , in its own terms , but projected , in its essentials , as strange and alien ; or ( b ) mediation by the discovery of an ‘ objective correlative' — a situation and characters are composed to produce , in an objective form , the subjective or actual feelings — an inexpressible guilt — from which the original impulse to composition came ; or ( c ) mediation as a function of the fundamental social processes of consciousness , in which certain crises which can not otherwise be directly apprehended are ‘ crystallized ’ in certain direct images and forms of art — images which then illuminate a basic ( social and psychological ) condition : not just Kafka 's but a general alienation . |
| 18 | Thus to is used with the infinitive both for the lexical and grammatical meaning it brings into the context : its lexical meaning of an approach to the infinitive event from a position before is called for by the relative position in time of the extra-infinitival spatial support with respect to the position occupied by non-ordinalized person at the beginning of the infinitive 's event ; its grammatical meaning as an establisher of a relation where the inherent mechanism of incidence is inoperative is called for by the fact that the event can not otherwise be represented as incident to the extra-infinitival support since the latter is not already situated at the beginning of the event , i.e. is not within the confines of event time . |
| 19 | The reconstruction of the interior of Uppark can not reasonably be described as maintenance . |
| 20 | that the respondent has behaved in such a way that the petitioner can not reasonably be expected to live with him ( or her ) ; |
| 21 | that the respondent has behaved in such a way that the applicant can not reasonably be expected to live with the respondent ; or |
| 22 | However , one charge that can not reasonably be made against the Government is that they have privatized the service . |
| 23 | Politicians can not reasonably be blamed for all this . |
| 24 | whenever the effect can not reasonably be quantified , in which case the directors should explain the circumstances . |
| 25 | That the respondent has behaved in such a way that the petitioner can not reasonably be expected to live with the respondent . |
| 26 | In preparing the job description the head teacher shall ensure that no teacher shall be given a job description which requires him or her to undertake duties which in combination can not reasonably be discharged . |
| 27 | Whatever its actual effect , the English wanted at least to make sure that they would not be out of pocket over expansion in America , and the fear that they would lose money was expressed by the economist Charles Davenant when he wrote in 1698 : ‘ it can not reasonably be admitted that the mother country should impoverish herself to enrich the children nor that Britain should weaken herself to strengthen America . ’ |
| 28 | To get the divorce you have to show that your wife has behaved in such a way that you ‘ can not reasonably be expected ’ to live with her . |
| 29 | It is clear , though , that there remains a very wealthy minority who can not reasonably be regarded as ‘ middle class ’ . |
| 30 | Although the hammock episode is explicable in terms of his experience , the subsequent transition to drifting above the ground can not reasonably be related to his usual fate when falling out of the hammock ; these dreams , which are not uncommon , seem uniquely detached from any experience in real life . |