Example sentences of "[det] can not [adv] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can not simply be dismissed as another New Right invocation of the Gulag , for Cixous is arguing something much more specific : that Marxism , insofar as it inherits the system of the Hegelian dialectic , is also implicated in the link between the structures of knowledge and the forms of oppression of the last two hundred years : a phenomenon that has become known as Eurocentrism . |
| 2 | The Exchange discourages the use of equity shares with no or restricted voting rights , so this can not normally be used as a device to retain control amongst a few shareholders with voting rights . |
| 3 | Where there does exist a genuine public expression of concern about the way the police operate this can not just be dismissed as a matter of misunderstanding or be written off as the foolish ramblings of that police ‘ folk devil ’ the ‘ loony left ’ , who would dismantle the system for their own political ends . |
| 4 | It may be that we are becoming a more ‘ criminal ’ nation as the increase in crime rates would suggest , but this can not just be assumed and it is important to be aware of other possible reasons for such an increase . |
| 5 | While accepting that the tremendous European complication about this can not just be wished away , will my right hon. Friend take note of yesterday 's vote and appreciate that a significant number of Conservative Members voted for that Bill . |
| 6 | Its Guide to Company Giving says that ‘ this can not really be considered a mainstream charitable expenditure , but more a self-interested expenditure by companies ’ . |
| 7 | Much of the evidence for settlement colonisation is based on the first reference to a place in documents , but this can not now be accepted as a date for origin . |
| 8 | A minor fraction of phosphatidylserine may be present at the outer surface of platelets , but this can not usually be detected . |
| 9 | In the absence of an experiment , a statistical effect of one variable on another can not just be accepted as causal at face value . |
| 10 | But these can not yet be attributed to the activities of an individual mosaicist — although they might well indicate the predilictions of an influential client or close- knit group of clients — and are still most significant when viewed over considerable periods of time . |
| 11 | Although the appeal is directly concerned only with two groups of criminal charges , these can not fairly be considered in isolation from two further and much graver groups of charges . |
| 12 | The same can not yet be said about the idea of regression . |