Example sentences of "[pron] can not [be] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not be refuted if I claim that my visual sense-field contains a yellow sense-content , but I can be refuted if I go on to claim that there exists a yellow object that is responsible for my sense-content . |
| 2 | Similarly , I can not be refuted if I claim to experience a religious emotion . |
| 3 | But yesterday a statement issued by Mr Sadler revealed the council 's continued hard line over Sunday opening — which can not be altered until councillors discuss the matter on June 16 . |
| 4 | The poetic work too should be viewed as a ‘ functional structure ’ ( p.46 ) , the different elements of which can not be understood except in their connections with the whole . |
| 5 | those which employ a method or means of combat the effects of which can not be limited as required by this Protocol ; and consequently , in each such case , are of a nature to strike military objectives and civilians or civilian objects without distinction . |
| 6 | Every day Theo hears calls for help and especially for pastors for the infant churches , which can not be met as the personnel are not available . |
| 7 | The major question , which can not be answered until treatment has been attempted , is whether success would only result in preserving what function remains or whether the epithelial cells could reconstitute and resore function to damaged areas of the lung and gut . |
| 8 | A secondment creates appetites which can not be sustained when the work is finished . |
| 9 | However , a new approach to the question of remedies available for breach was occasioned by Diplock LJ in Hong Kong Fir Shipping Co Ltd v Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd [ 1962 ] 2 QB 26 ( at p70 ) : There are … many contractual undertakings of a more complex character which can not be categorised as being " conditions " or " warranties " , if the late 19th century meaning adopted in the Sale of Goods Act , 1893 , and used by Bowen LJ in Bentsen v Taylor , Sons & Co be given to those terms . |
| 10 | Once he 's harvested the wheat crop , there 's still the beans , which can not be cut because of the rain . |
| 11 | The group 's present offices were intended as a temporary base before staff moved into better premises which can not be used because of fire damage . |
| 12 | A council spokeswoman said : ‘ There is an ongoing investigation which can not be resolved until the mother returns and can be interviewed by both social services and the police . ’ |
| 13 | A council spokeswoman said : ‘ There is an ongoing investigation which can not be resolved until the mother returns and can be interviewed by both social services and the police . ’ |
| 14 | Neil Davidson , counsel for the Deans , said they denied allegations levelled at them by the shareholders , many of which can not be reported because of restrictions imposed by Lord Cullen . |
| 15 | establish the principle that when your office door is open you are willing to accept ‘ drop in callers ’ but when it is shut you can not be disturbed except for a real emergency |
| 16 | Not of course that the reasoning is invalid , or that the paradigm itself can not be questioned when it is sensed that something is going wrong ; indeed it is its destiny to lead eventually to intolerable anomalies and be replaced by another . |
| 17 | Paying all pre-payments into a trust account from which they can not be withdrawn until the package has been provided . |
| 18 | So , whilst the perils of specialist slots are very real , they can not be relinquished before the mainstream becomes fully representative . |
| 19 | But they can not be altered unless they are first apprehended . |
| 20 | A problem with this idea is of course that most dreams are not remembered , so that even if solutions to problems are achieved during dreams they can not be regarded as adaptive , unless we are to believe that these solutions are somehow incorporated unconsciously . |
| 21 | For if such complexes ' are to play the role of particulars , they can not be regarded as being logically on a par with single qualities . |
| 22 | In the absence of this information , it is sound practice to make a secondary arrangement of key words ; they can not be left as they are above , for they make sense only as their interrelation is explicitly shown . |
| 23 | They can not be sexed when small , but it would be better to obtain an unrelated female to avoid inbreeding . |
| 24 | But it , as I have suggested , the structures of identity formation at work here are fundamental to our existing cultural forms , they can not be considered as stemming only from the psychoanalytic tradition . |
| 25 | It may , of course , be reintroduced into the House of Lord ; and passed again in a later session , but it can not be enacted until the House of Commons passes it . |
| 26 | Whilst , therefore , the criterion of the owner 's nationality is consistent with a fairly widespread international practice , it can not be regarded as forming part of customary international law . |
| 27 | ‘ After anxious consideration I have reached the conclusion that whatever Reg. v. Morris did decide it can not be regarded as having overruled the very plain decision in Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 that appropriation can occur even if the owner consents and that Reg. v. Morris itself makes it plain that it is no defence to say that the property passed under a voidable contract . |
| 28 | ( f ) Parker LJ stated : " whatever R v Morris did decide it can not be regarded as having overruled the very plain decision in Lawrence 's case that appropriation can occur even if the owner consents and … |
| 29 | This reserve may be replaced annually , keeping the stock régulateur as fresh as possible , but it can not be increased unless and until the INAO grant another blocage of excess production . |
| 30 | From them it goes to manufacturing engineers , who , as like as not , discover that it can not be built as designed so far , and that the whole process must start again . |