Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] can [not/n't] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your child is over 16 , he or she can not be tested for HIV without his or her permission . |
| 2 | As I write , I make assumptions about what my reader already knows about language and language learning , about the common ground of knowledge , and what he or she can not be expected to know since it concerns the idiosyncrasies of my own view of these matters . |
| 3 | There was , too , the how-dun-it , the book in which it soon becomes evident who the murderer is but in which he or she can not be brought to satisfying justice unless some ingenious , proof-defying method used is brought to light . |
| 4 | The power is wide enough on the one hand to allow the statement of an eye-witness to an accident to express an opinion ( eg that one of the drivers was going too fast ) and on the other hand to allow a party to put in a medical report from a doctor who has died or who can not be called for any other reason . |
| 5 | Where there are no witnesses or they can not be traced , an admission by the defendant either verbally to the officer dealing with the case ( who would record the admission in his pocket book or accident booklet ) or in writing if he chooses to make a ‘ voluntary ’ statement in accordance with the Codes of Practice . |
| 6 | When an old person becomes so demented that she or he can not be contained in an old people 's home the choice is between a private nursing home costing about £400 a week or a free bed in the NHS . |
| 7 | If my servant , acting bona fide within the scope of his authority , procures or causes me to break a contract which I have made with you , you can not sue the servant for interference with the contract ; for he is my alter ego here , and I can not be sued for inducing myself to break a contract , although I may be liable for breaking the contract . |
| 8 | Equally obviously , for any degree of smallness or crudeness of ancestral air-catching surfaces , there must be some distance , however short , which can be jumped with the flap and which can not be jumped without the flap . |
| 9 | As always , however , these are nicely balanced by examples of people who have gone ‘ a bridge too far ’ , stuck with totally unobtainable ambitions and allowed the whole company to be pushed into the pursuit , usually , of a product dream which the market has quite clearly rejected and which can not be made to fly . |
| 10 | Conditions had been miserable — and yet , as we climbed aboard the waiting mini-bus , we shared an exhilaration peculiar to bird watchers , and which can not be explained . |
| 11 | The rest is the information locked up in people 's brains and which can not be left behind . |
| 12 | The re-emergence of feminism , which began as a flash of vision , and continued with an examination of the evils and gross distortions of patriarchy , and led to a whole variety of campaigns on behalf of women , now needs to concentrate on the differences between us as women which have divided us under patriarchy and which can not be allowed to divide us as feminists . |
| 13 | Provided everybody else pays , the factory will cut back and you can not be prevented from getting the benefits . |
| 14 | Yet if the customer is adamant that you must go and you can not be fitted into another niche where you would have no contact with him , you may be vulnerable to dismissal . |
| 15 | Many people are curious as to who can and who can not be hypnotized . |
| 16 | Abraham would seem to be dealing with a God who has his own cruelty , and who can not be relied upon to keep his promises . |
| 17 | He said the Government will change the law so courts can impose a secure training order on 12 to 15-year-olds who have been convicted of three imprisonable crimes and who can not be dealt with in the community . |
| 18 | The company has informed your two banks , where you have substantial overdrafts , I understand , that your employment with us has ceased , and we can not be regarded as guarantors . |
| 19 | ‘ Here we are very safe , ’ said Minch , ‘ and we can not be hurt . |
| 20 | He shows no love in his dictatorial and threatening speech in book five and we can not be expected to suppose , in our first reactions to the text , that what he is doing is altogether just . |
| 21 | If we do not actually receive the money within this period , our computer will automatically cancel your reservation and we can not be held responsible if that holiday is subsequently not available . |
| 22 | N.B. It should be noted that in Austria twin beds often consist of two separate mattresses attached to a single frame or headboard and they can not be separated . |
| 23 | Acts like eating , sexual intercourse , and fighting are embedded in a socially shared set of associated symbols , and they can not be isolated from this semantic setting . |
| 24 | The advantages of a DIP system are that images — unlike paper documents — do not have to be physically moved around the office , they occupy much less storage space , and they can not be lost , misfiled or damaged in the way that paper can . |
| 25 | But they lack the three essentials : they do not evolve , they do not process energy , and they can not be called organisms . |
| 26 | But I have some sympathy for the institutions ' view that their duty is to their policyholders and they can not be expected to double up as company regulators . |
| 27 | There are about 600 of them , and they can not be traded for commercial purposes . |
| 28 | He argues that class conflicts and economic crises are built into the way the economic system works , and they can not be avoided . |
| 29 | Putting this point on a more theoretical level , the musical field and the class structure at any given moment , though clearly not unconnected , comprise different ‘ maps ’ of social/cultural space , and they can not be reduced one to the other ( see Williams 1981 ) . |
| 30 | God is God , not man writ large ; and he can not be spoken of simply by speaking of ourselves in a loud voice . |