Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [be] [verb] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's wounded , too , in one leg , but she ca n't be moved down to Florence until twenty-four hours have passed because she cracked her head when she fell and there could be concussion . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ At least hotels can be rebuilt , dead people ca n't be brought back to life . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ She ca n't be going off to a big party before the Championship . |
| 4 | If previous experience is any guide , politicians can not be relied on to lead that debate . |
| 5 | Environmental protection can not be tacked on to the end of industrial development . |
| 6 | Certainly the word ‘ romance ’ can not be tied down to any one meaning . |
| 7 | The same is true of town and village rugs , and individual items that clearly originate from a broadly defined area or region , but can not be tied down to a specific village or town will be marketed under the name of the general location . |
| 8 | We have not included these qualities in our statements of attainment because they can not be mapped on to levels . |
| 9 | And it is itself always also paradoxical , for it discloses what can not be scaled down to be contained , proved , measured , demonstrated or explained within the framework of finite human reasoning . |
| 10 | However , these institutional norms do not tell anything like the whole story , and this is particularly true if we focus on spoken language in casual conversation and on phonetic and phonological variation : as we noticed in chapter 3 , the norms of a superordinate variety can not be projected on to the norms of a speech community without distorting our description . |
| 11 | The simple translation is , first , that the 750m people in the countryside , including 90m who work in what amount to private factories , can not be sent back to the commune , however much China 's old-guard ideologues might wish . |
| 12 | It was as architects rather than as builders that the Caroline bureaucrats bequeathed to liberalism this programme : their concrete achievements remained limited , but there is no practical reform of the nineteenth century , no reforming attitude of mind , that can not be traced back to one of the servants of Charles III . |
| 13 | All information should be confidential in the sense that it can not be traced back to an individual , i.e. anonymity must be guaranteed to achieve frankness . |
| 14 | This is a confidential document and considerable care is taken to ensure that it can not be related back to the company in question , although there is always an element of trade off between absolute confidentiality and achieving the desired results . |
| 15 | It was , presumably , drafted and engrossed by persons of reasonable educational standard , and the eccentricities ( to modern eyes ) in the orthography can not be put down to illiteracy . |
| 16 | Likes and dislikes can not be put down to pure genetic inheritance alone . |
| 17 | Sex can not be switched on to order within a marriage . |
| 18 | Commitment to sport has to be freely given ; it has to be fun ; it can not be foisted on to the poor or the wayward from above because it is good for them . |
| 19 | As always with cohort measures , the data can not be taken up to the present day without a considerable element of projection ( broken line ) of the generation rate . |
| 20 | The task can not be handed over to the superstar preacher and those with ‘ the gift of persuasive oratory ’ . |
| 21 | It seems impossible to me that she can not be brought back to life , that such a person can not be brought back to normal life . |
| 22 | It seems impossible to me that she can not be brought back to life , that such a person can not be brought back to normal life . |
| 23 | Lancelot , although befriended by a hermit , can not be brought back to a normal state of mind because the hermit is too poor to feed him properly , and ‘ for defaute of sustenance he waxed more wooder than he was aforetyme ’ , and became violent , breaking the legs and arms of those who tried to help him . |
| 24 | Yugoslavia , as it was , can not be brought back to life now . |
| 25 | The Government confirmed that the Bill would not proceed — it fell with the dissolution of Parliament on 16 March ( unfinished legislation can not be carried over to the new parliament ) . |
| 26 | The Queen of Beauty can not be pinned down to one expression , and every female image of beauty that is created is only a single realization of a great range of possibilities . |
| 27 | But I 've come to accept that it 's far more sensitive and vulnerable than my other possessions and it can not be hauled back to the manufacturers at the first sign of malfunction . |
| 28 | It can not be grafted on to an alien stem . |