Example sentences of "[verb] can not [adv] [be] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It is quite possible that the extent of unmet legal need can never be ascertained and that which can be ascertained can not adequately be explained .
2 But such patterns of hoarding can not necessarily be explained simply .
3 While certainly it seems plausible to suggest that , if there are people from similar social or educational backgrounds in a number of key roles , the relationships between those people will facilitate the sharing of ideas and opinions , the processes involved can not necessarily be explained as simply as this .
4 There the caterpillar first cuts all the leaf veins leading back to the main stalk before settling in for a dinner which it hopes can not then be communicated to the neighbouring leaves .
5 A trivial , and at the same time profound , corollary is that the results of supercomputing can not usefully be displayed as graphs or tables of numbers .
6 As electronic records represent a new resource their location and the descriptions of the data they contain can not easily be made accessible .
7 birth you have can not easily be predicted .
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