Example sentences of "[vb -s] that [noun] can [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It insists that paper can only be recycled four times before it disintegrates , and claims that if Scandinavia stopped producing primary fibre Europe would run out of paper in six months . |
| 2 | Cyberscience says that reports can often be produced in a hundredth of the time that it takes with Cobol . |
| 3 | None of this , of course , says that MCE can not be effective . |
| 4 | The epidemiological evidence shows that nitrate can not be having a major effect on cancer in the general population in the UK . |
| 5 | This states that energy can not be created or destroyed , although it may be converted from one form into another . |
| 6 | This law states that matter can not be created or destroyed in a chemical reaction . |
| 7 | It ensures that software can not be changed without the knowledge of the users it affects . |
| 8 | This then ensures that fraud can not be committed without the collusion of at least two individuals . |
| 9 | For instance , if A is longer than B , then it follows that B can not be longer than A ; hence , ’ — is longer than — ’ is an asymmetric relation . |
| 10 | It follows that names can not be descriptions , for descriptions are invariably complex , and ( it is implied ) inherently ambiguous , i.e. they do not by themselves ensure the uniqueness of the referential relation in any given case of referring . |
| 11 | Maastricht deals directly with its problem by giving new powers and scrutiny to the European Parliament which means that decisions can not be made unless both Council and Parliament agree . |
| 12 | This means that firms can not be sure that they will be protected from allegations of breach of fiduciary duty , merely because they comply with the rules of their regulator . |
| 13 | Use of PLATO has the disadvantage that special PLATO terminals have to be used for the instruction ; this means that users can not be taught in their own congressional offices and carry out the training as and when required . |
| 14 | Sales manager Graham Cooper says : ‘ The introduction of video printing techniques means that images can now be ‘ grabbed ’ and transferred on to other materials such as T-shirts , mugs , key-rings and baseball hats . |
| 15 | The restriction on volume and speed of delivery means that images can only be built up slowly , at a pace determined by the rate at which data arrives at the terminal . |
| 16 | This means that ideas can not be abstract , but it does not mean that they can not be general . |
| 17 | This means that sensors can often be mounted directly on the walls of metal reaction vessels and pipework . |
| 18 | The League proposes that games can only be switched from Saturday on police instructions or because of television commitments . |
| 19 | He argues that dreams can not be regarded as a neurotic symptom if everyone dreams — unless everyone is neurotic . |
| 20 | This suggests that hypocrisy can not be sustained indefinitely , or only at great personal cost . |
| 21 | On the other hand , we would add that the lesson of Hegel 's , Marx 's , and Sartre 's attempt also suggests that history can not be coherently essentialist and teleological either . |
| 22 | Althusser thus suggests that history can only be thought through as a permanent contradiction : it is a totality , but that totality is a decentred structure in dominance in which each history 's history is defined not through its identity with , or difference from , a general history but by being differentiated from every other history , on which it is necessarily also therefore dependent , in a kind of negative totalization . |