Example sentences of "[coord] it can [not/n't] [be] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 It does not commend itself on the basis of observable experience in the everyday world , and it can not be easily and rationally justified .
2 The distance of the cluster is believed to be over 9000 light-years ; it contains several thousands of stars , and it can not be less than 30 light-years in diameter .
3 ‘ Ah , but it ca n't be very evident or I would n't have had to spend an hour and half in the X-ray Department and they would n't have had to take a Complete album of me . ’
4 Cynics may suggest that we are required to admire Nelson Mandela because he is fashionably black , but it can not be that simple .
5 It is indeed still there , to be built on , in Ulysses in the further elaboration of Stephen , but it can not be fully achieved unless the wounds are acknowledged .
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