Example sentences of "can not be [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 I have discharged my duty , she thought , I can not be troubled by my conscience in that respect .
2 Where are we off to this morning then , so sunk in our own fantasies and imaginings that we can not be troubled to look out for vulnerable senior citizens , eh ? ’
3 Cos they do n't actually , if you do something like that , say you put plus five , minus five and then sit down and , you 're the one that plus three and minus three you do n't actually lose marks doing something wrong , you can not be penalised for doing it wrong , you can only gain credit for doing something right , because they 'll , give you five marks to doing that bit right and then knock three off for doing something else wrong , they , they would never give you penalty marks , they will only credit for doing things right , but so often it 's quite like down as you want , you ca n't .
4 The differences between the two groups can not be couched in such grandiose terms .
5 Our deductive practice needs no such justificatory shoring up and can not be revised by rational argument , hence there is no circularity in deploying it in the explanation .
6 the presentation of a winding up petition — it has , however , been held that a winding up petition can not be advertised during this period ;
7 The successes of molecular biology are sufficiently striking to show that whatever the true relation of biology may be to physics , it is certainly a subtle one that can not be encapsulated in a single word .
8 The law , however , has never allowed a corporation to sue in respect of injury to its feelings on the basis that the injury might be suffered by its agents : as Lord Reid said in Lewis v. Daily Telegraph Ltd. [ 1964 ] A.C. 234 , 262 : ‘ A company can not be injured in its feelings , ’ and he added , ‘ it can only be injured in its pocket ’ but pecuniary damage to a corporation 's reputation was not in issue in that case .
9 Worse still it is the superstition that the Holy Mass or a sermon or a prayer can not be locked up on a roll of magnetic tape without being desecrated in some way .
10 However , deterrence will exist only when young people can be locked up in secure accommodation : if they can not be locked up , all this will be a waste of time .
11 But there is no reason why the doctrine of justice actually reflected by the constitutional arrangements of a state may not be reached as a result of people realizing that their different ideals of the good , each leading to a different doctrine of justice , can not be implemented because of the widespread disagreement in society concerning their value .
12 But in recent years the knowledge of the role of electricity in the treatment of disease has developed considerably , and there are no technical reasons why the findings and the techniques outlined can not be implemented and developed immediately by any competent specialist .
13 A dynamic allocation of exactly the right amount of memory for the word can not be implemented because the structure needs to be contiguous in memory for the fast saving and reading in from a file ( as discussed in section 3.3.6 ) .
14 Firstly , many innovations are school-wide in their application and can not be implemented at all unless a number of teachers , perhaps even the entire staff of a school , both agree to , and become committed to , their implementation .
15 A common foreign policy means nothing if it can not be implemented .
16 However , if untraceable shareholders ( plus dissenting shareholders ) exceed that percentage and the procedures can not be implemented by the offeror as a result , the offeror will have to make an application to court under s430C ( 5 ) for an order for leave to give notices under s429 , despite the fact the 90 per cent threshold has not been reached .
17 Obviously there may be circumstances in which the normal procedure of application and issue can not be followed because of the urgency of the matter and a procedure exists for obtaining an emergency representation certificate in such cases .
18 The essence of a club is that it is select and private ; you can not be followed in there .
19 Clearly the view that sociability arises primarily in the context of feeding can not be upheld ; the physical-care experiences examined can not account for variations in behaviour-not even behaviour at the time .
20 That argument can not be upheld .
21 Thus the gist of Spinoza 's argument , for example , is that whereas in ordinary circumstances we may indeed find it useful and necessary to distinguish between essential and accidental properties , metaphysically such a distinction can not be upheld .
22 If any one of these does not hold , then the results can not be upheld .
23 Except by sleight of logic and distortion of historical fact , the two positions can not be harmonised .
24 Like the colour of the great shades in the saloon , they can not be replaced or even exactly reproduced .
25 If they are destroyed , they can not be replaced , and the animal will be sterile .
26 80 inch steering boxes are unique and can not be replaced by another without great modifications to the 80. 86 inch to 109 inch SI to SIII will all swap but there are two types of steering wheel splines .
27 Buildings — and not just historic ones — represent energy , labour and materials , which either can not be replaced or can only be replaced at enormous cost .
28 The skin and the tissue in the digestive tract heal quite rapidly ; bone takes longer and the cells of the brain and spinal cord , once damaged , can not be replaced .
29 Do so can not be replaced by a ‘ copy ’ of part of the first clause .
30 In a lake , photosynthesis is limited to the epilimnion , where the depletion of nutrients can not be replaced from the hypoplimnion until mixing occurs in winter .
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