Example sentences of "can [not/n't] be dismiss as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Warnings of eco-wars and the flight of hundreds of millions of refugees can not be dismissed as fantasies : they are probabilities in situations which become more and more apparent as the century nears its end . |
| 2 | That this is not so is very apparent from any number of reports which can not be dismissed as anecdotage . |
| 3 | Of epidemiology , Justice Shepherd said , ‘ Despite its inexactitude epidemiology is a science ’ and that ‘ epidemiological studies … can not be dismissed as ‘ nothing ’ . ’ |
| 4 | This design can not be dismissed as an automatic and inevitable consequence of building cells closely together , for bumble bees also make waxen cells and theirs are irregular bag-shaped containers , jumbled untidily together . |
| 5 | Not all bishops were employed by the king and some of them had acquired their sees in the face of royal opposition ; they can not be dismissed as king 's men . |