Example sentences of "[pers pn] can not [adv] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's about time that you grew up and realised that I can not possibly be dancing attendance on you every five minutes . ’ |
| 2 | If you can not reasonably be expected to vote in person on polling day you can apply for an absent vote . |
| 3 | This does not mean that you can not possibly be tempted by the sight of a chocolate bar or the scent of a fish and chip shop , but you will more easily be able to resist . |
| 4 | ( Well , she thought , we can not surely be meant to play together ? |
| 5 | The claim that none of our beliefs about the future are ever justified is more important and more interesting than the claim that although our belief that the sun will rise tomorrow is quite probably both true and justified , we can not really be said to know that the sun will rise tomorrow . |
| 6 | The Benue Rift deposits are spread out along 600 km , so they can not yet be said to have been adequately characterised , but the technical , stylistic , compositional and lead isotope evidence now points to the Igbo-Ukwu bronzes originating within Nigeria . |
| 7 | More specifically , Cornall noted ; ‘ cross-curricular themes may be all right but they can not adequately be taught through foundation subjects . |
| 8 | Where the property of A is mixed with that of B which is of substantially the same nature and quality and they can not practicably be separated ( grain in a bin , oil in a tank ) the mixture is owned in common in proportion to the quantity contributed by each and the law is the same whether the mixing is wrongful or by consent . |
| 9 | An important feature is that once bonuses are given , they can not later be withdrawn or put at risk due to some speculative investment . |
| 10 | Of course , where politicians are denied control , they can not normally be expected to assume accountability , thus undermining the principle that public administration should be publicly accountable . |
| 11 | Because they can not generally be metabolised or excreted , organochlorines tend to accumulate gradually in the blubber , which in adult belugas accounts for 35 per cent of the body weight . |
| 12 | In principle it is impossible because skills are by their nature totally integrated and interactive so that they can not meaningfully be separated into independent parts . |
| 13 | Nonetheless , there are important differences between landscape and wildlife , in terms of way their qualities can be measured , perceived and protected , which suggest they can not easily be treated as one and the same . |
| 14 | The South American porcupines ( below , left ) may not look as impressive as the great crested species from Africa ( below , right ) but their quills are sharply barbed so that once they have entered a predator 's flesh they can not easily be removed . |
| 15 | They can not easily be used to describe those events outside of us , like our social circumstances or what psychiatrists call ‘ life events ’ , that have such a critical impact on our emotions . |
| 16 | What is interesting about Christian guidelines for economic life is that they can not easily be classified as either right wing or left wing , capitalist or socialist . |
| 17 | However , so long as the images are in analogue form , they can not easily be processed and manipulated . |
| 18 | But London hotels can not expect to go on charging high prices when they can not even be bothered to welcome guests in their own language . |
| 19 | But , in the words of Grant ( 1987 : 56–7 ) , ‘ the distinctive relationship that the nationalised industries have with government , and the politically charged environment in which they operate , means that they can not simply be treated as a special case of the close relationship that many large privately owned enterprises have with government . ’ |
| 20 | Even if working-class crime is promoted by the same features of capitalism as produce socialist consciousness this is no basis for automatically equating them : working-class crime may express purely personal goals or , if there are some wider underlying objectives , they can not necessarily be assumed to be socialist ones . |
| 21 | The media have a right to publish defamatory remarks at the risk of paying heavy damages if they can not subsequently be justified . |
| 22 | There is a good case for excluding these economically inactive people since they can not really be described as capable and available for full-time work . |
| 23 | But it is easy to map out some of the important ‘ moments ’ ( though they can not always be dated precisely or uniformly across regions and social groups ) One would be the take-up , by former illiterates , of broadsides ; these had a printed text but , almost always , simply stipulated the use of an orally transmitted tune . |
| 24 | Topics may have been defined , but they can not always be slotted neatly into an existing structure . |
| 25 | They can not always be anticipated . |
| 26 | Often innkeepers will make exceptional arrangements for such persons as a gesture of goodwill ( e.g. letting them sleep in the lounge ) , but they can not legally be required to do so . |
| 27 | But the distinguishing feature of those films ( even if they can not quite be credited with inventing the conceit ) was what might be called their sense of the inverted anachronism . |
| 28 | They are the kind of assumptions which make whole sciences possible and rational , and they can not therefore be tested within these sciences . |
| 29 | It can not exactly be ascribed as a right of the pupil , however , since he can not ensure that the other schools and so on ask for the record . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , the rewritten version conforms so closely to the original , with just isolated words changed , that it can not reasonably be called a paraphrase . |