Example sentences of "[noun prp] can not [adv] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experience in the United States can not necessarily be extrapolated to the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | As a general-purpose hot air gun , the Peugeot can not really be faulted . |
| 3 | Four years after the murder of ‘ little Gregory ’ his successor is still pondering the whole business , and until he makes up his mind Mrs Villemin can not finally be cleared of all suspicion , and her husband can not be tried for shooting Mr Laroche . |
| 4 | However , a significant contribution to the internal magnetic dipole moment from liquid iron and other materials nearer the centre of Jupiter can not quite be ruled out . |
| 5 | The reconstruction of the interior of Uppark can not reasonably be described as maintenance . |
| 6 | Wear can not therefore be simulated by just sand-blasting the whole object , nor even by concentrating on the vulnerable parts with a coarse file . |
| 7 | six Beiderbecke and Eubie Blake , Billy Mayerl and Nat Gonella can not easily be assimilated , or at least reduced , merely to a preformed role in the machinery of a dominant system of musical craftsmanship , nor can Bob Dylan and John Lennon , Chuck Berry , Bob Marley and Merle Haggard , let alone Joe Strummer or John Lydon ; though , equally obviously , they all , in another sense , come to be umbilically attached to that system . |