Example sentences of "can no [adv] [be] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there are now real problems and the solutions to them can no longer be delayed or fudged . |
| 2 | ( i ) As a result of the progress of medical science certain conditions are now so easily diagnosable and treatable , that , although they once carried a mortality , it can no longer be said that they do , unless that mortality is brought on as a result of some wholly unexpected and exceptional circumstance , for example gross negligence on the part of the doctor treating the patient . |
| 3 | In his Introduction to Modern Criticism and Theory ( 1988 ) , a collection of major critical essays of recent years , David Lodge writes : ‘ Literary criticism can no longer be taught and practised as if its methods , aims and institutional forms were innocent of theoretical assumptions and ideological implications . ’ |
| 4 | Although amber can no longer be regarded as among the more precious substances , it was certainly rated as precious in former times . |
| 5 | Invariably in well-established firms the work continues to flow from long tapped sources , but in the aggressive business climate facing the profession today it can no longer be assumed that this will continue . |
| 6 | Psychological models derived from the observation of groups consisting of students can no longer be taken as representing general truths . |
| 7 | The price level on other islands can no longer be taken as fixed at p but will be seen to have risen . |
| 8 | Once leaked , most kinds of information can no more be rebottled than pigs can fly . |