Example sentences of "[pers pn] can not [be] [vb pp] [conj] " 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 | If you can not be contacted or do not make acceptable repayment proposals within a reasonable time , we may commence or continue procedures to enforce repayment . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | But , importantly , they can not be ignored nor can they be dismissed easily as irrational fabrications . |
| 6 | But for those with a relatively static model of the universe and more or less fixed expectations , the discrepancies are deeply troubling if they can not be ignored or resolved by supplementary perceptual categories . |
| 7 | Paying all pre-payments into a trust account from which they can not be withdrawn until the package has been provided . |
| 8 | However , their benefits are much less tangible than a physical product in that they can not be stored or displayed and satisfaction is achieved through activities ( e.g. transportation from one place to another rather than say a seat on a train ) . |
| 9 | Some of these aspects may well combine in complex and inexplicable ways in the learning process and clearly the teacher can not take the chance of depriving learners of effective learning conditions on the grounds that they can not be explained or controlled . |
| 10 | They can not be shot or netted since they refuse to budge and will be sitting tight underground . |
| 11 | So , whilst the perils of specialist slots are very real , they can not be relinquished before the mainstream becomes fully representative . |
| 12 | Like the colour of the great shades in the saloon , they can not be replaced or even exactly reproduced . |
| 13 | But they can not be altered unless they are first apprehended . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Lawrence warned : ‘ Bristol will be relaxed because they can not be promoted or relegated . |
| 18 | They can not be sexed when small , but it would be better to obtain an unrelated female to avoid inbreeding . |
| 19 | The ‘ headlands ’ , where the horses or tractors turn at either end of the ridges , constitute too large a proportion of a smallholder 's roots field to be allowed to lie fallow , but they can not be cultivated and sown until the inter-row hoeing is completed . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | However , it can not be denied that incompetent side-slipping and sideslipping close to the ground can cause accidents . |
| 22 | It can not be denied that we need more resources to improve the quality of life of very frail older people . |
| 23 | Many of the shortcomings of the eastern type are similar to those of the western , but it can not be denied that it is the immensely complicated nature alone of the eastern Buddhism , Hinduism and their derivatives that is sufficient to make them equally useless as a basis of a religion of the character that mankind needs . |
| 24 | Tradition maintains that many of the Campbells warned Macdonalds in time for them to escape but it can not be denied that on that winter morning in Glencoe many of the Clan Campbell plumbed the depths of treachery and horror . |
| 25 | It can not be denied that air pollution needs to be addressed but we should n't be fooled into paying more of our hard-earned cash which will be used to pay for Mr Lamont 's bungles . |
| 26 | Professor James Torrance , I know , sees this as a weakness in Calvinism , and it can not be denied that , despite the Reformation , a great deal of this legalism passed over into Protestantism . |
| 27 | It can not be denied that there is a streak of ‘ wish-fulfilment ’ in The Lord of the Rings . |
| 28 | Whilst not wishing to create visions of the past as a ‘ Golden Age ’ ( it was certainly not ) , it can not be denied that the main social trends in family organization , particularly since the Industrial Revolution , have increasingly served to isolate ageing people . |
| 29 | It can not be denied that rock has always been the province of men , even if they have often aped the female . |
| 30 | Although there may be more or less rigorous ways of doing this it can not be denied that the central activity is the same . |