Example sentences of "it can not [adv] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the rewritten version conforms so closely to the original , with just isolated words changed , that it can not reasonably be called a paraphrase . |
| 3 | Whatever its actual effect , the English wanted at least to make sure that they would not be out of pocket over expansion in America , and the fear that they would lose money was expressed by the economist Charles Davenant when he wrote in 1698 : ‘ it can not reasonably be admitted that the mother country should impoverish herself to enrich the children nor that Britain should weaken herself to strengthen America . ’ |
| 4 | Yet just because it is so general and common a process , finding its means and occasions and objects in such diverse ways , and again and again interpenetrating with many of the most practical or most ideological activities , it can not reasonably be abstracted to one exclusive set of practices or one exclusive intention or set of intentions . |
| 5 | The Plan will be laid down upon the scale of 40 or 50 yards to an inch , — at present it can not well be determined which will be the most eligible . |
| 6 | It can not simply be assumed that a parent who is present at the injury of their child has condoned it . |
| 7 | The conservative outlook entails a particular conception of God ( and of Christ ) , an understanding of which it can not simply be said that it is held in common by all Christians : something I think often not recognized by conservatives themselves . |
| 8 | In the vital chapter ‘ The Shadow of the Past ’ Gandalf says a great deal about it , but his information boils down to three basic data : ( 1 ) the Ring is immensely powerful , in right or wrong hands ; ( 2 ) it is dangerous and ultimately fatal to all its possessors — in a sense there are no right hands ; ( 3 ) it can not simply be left unused or put aside , but must be destroyed , something which can happen only in the place of its origin , Orodruin , Mount Doom . |
| 9 | When the uranium fuel has finished its useful life producing electricity inside Britain 's thirty-odd currently operating commercial reactors , it can not simply be disposed of . |
| 10 | It can not simply be thought away . |
| 11 | Thus the lower-frequency stretching mode of HCN , mainly associated with CN stretching , gives rise to IR absorption so weak that it can not effectively be observed by conventional means . |
| 12 | As to the second , there are two fractals in physics whose D is fairly well accounted for , namely the ‘ Brownian ’ drift of a small particle jostled by molecules in a fluid which is an erratic curve with D=2 , and the hierarchy of density fluctuations in a fluid at the critical point where it can not properly be considered as liquid or gas . |
| 13 | On the other hand , it will be argued that the large number of arrests points to a malaise of such dimensions that it can not completely be dealt with by a police investigation and that a wider inquiry is called for . |
| 14 | Physics as Metaphor is a part of this movement and yet it can not easily be pigeon-holed alongside , for example , Fritjof Capra 's The Tao of Physics . |
| 15 | What has come to his rescue is an altogether subtler kind of ideas and information-limitation whose effectiveness is , if anything , enhanced by the fact that it can not easily be explained in terms of conspiracies and blunt propaganda . |
| 16 | But it can not plausibly be said that it is wholly impracticable . |
| 17 | First , he argued that it is highly artificial to construe all consumption as a response to needs ; while this approach may seem illuminating when it is applied to the consumption of individuals , it can not plausibly be extended to productive consumption , which has to be treated as ‘ the consumption which satisfies the needs of production ’ , if the theory is to be sustained . |
| 18 | Western technology has been made to assume a burden which it can not fairly be expected to carry . |
| 19 | It can not really be called page makeup but it 's probably more useful for the businessman than any page makeup program . |
| 20 | Note that the amber light shall convey the prohibition that vehicular traffic shall not proceed beyond the stop line etc. , except in the case of any vehicle which , when the amber light is first shown , is so close to the said line and signal that it can not safely be stopped before passing the line or signal . |
| 21 | However , the complexity of his task is such that it can not readily be summarised in a few words . |
| 22 | The constitution of the convention is such that it can not now be amended . |
| 23 | It can not possibly be mistaken . |
| 24 | And because this issue is clearly so site related , it seems to me it can not possibly be looked at at a strategic level . |
| 25 | It can not therefore be stated , as an abstract proposition , that he suffers any detriment from the discharge of that duty ; and the declaration does not show in what way the defendant could have derived any advantage from the plaintiff paying his own debts . |
| 26 | It can not therefore be attempted . |
| 27 | It can not therefore be described as an inherited disease . |
| 28 | The final point which needs to be made about ethnicity is that as a speaker variable it can not usually be isolated from social class . |
| 29 | The distinction does arise and it can not entirely be neglected but it is much less important than appears at first sight . |
| 30 | It can not necessarily be considered as isotropic because if highly draw the chains become oriented and the elastic and other ( for example optical ) properties differ between different directions . |