Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [be] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cat ca n't be half shot and half not-shot , they claim , any more than one can be half pregnant . |
| 2 | Our environmental goals can not be successfully achieved unless action is taken across the Community . |
| 3 | Modern technologies can not be successfully used if they are simply imposed on an unwilling and underskilled workforce . |
| 4 | Similarly the value of something is intrinsically bound up with the way in which someone who recognizes it is drawn to it , or repelled by it if the value is negative , but is not merely a disposition to attract or repel , for we can not be thus attracted or repelled except by recognizing ( or at least seeming to recognize ) a value |
| 5 | The original environment of human evolutionary adaptedness can not be clearly defined because our evolution has been such an extraordinary progression of expansive diversifications in adapting to an immense range of environments . |
| 6 | Depreciation and amortisation is only one of many factors reflected in the annual valuation , and the amount which might otherwise have been charged can not be separately identified or quantified . ’ |
| 7 | Cards can not be jointly held although separate cards may be issued , on application , to individual holders of joint accounts provided that all joint holders of the account are authorised to operate the account alone . |
| 8 | The opportunity offered in the market by an asset owner can not be freely duplicated or surpassed by just anyone ; it can be duplicated only by another owner of a similar asset . |
| 9 | He 's one of the co-architects of the agreement and there is no doubt that his vision , energy , enthusiasm and dedication can not be over emphasized and is deeply appreciated by this union . |
| 10 | Health care can not be conveniently packaged and priced into such things as health problems of the ‘ elderly ’ or ‘ mentally ill ’ . |
| 11 | Assessments of the current situation in the Soviet Union have meaning in Nizan 's eyes only in the context of this material progress : " Soviet achievements can not be properly evaluated unless they are linked historically to the effort which produced them " he stresses . |
| 12 | Some people think that the law of judicial review can not be properly understood unless it is studied against the background of a particular area of governmental activity such as housing or immigration , in order to see how the general rules are use to deal with particular problems . |
| 13 | This class , whatever we call it , can not be properly understood and its historic role can not be adequately explained , outside the necessity that produces the eternal contradiction of capitalist accumulation on a mass scale . |
| 14 | The present attitude of the courts towards judicial review can not be adequately understood unless some idea is conveyed of eighteenth and nineteenth century case law . |
| 15 | The activity of psychoanalysis in the therapeutic setting can not be adequately grasped and stated in mechanistic , quantitative terms . |
| 16 | Most of the final parts of this story can not be independently verified but events appear to have run as follows . |
| 17 | Surely , it will be said , it is necessary to draw a distinction between predicates which within a given context at a given time can be appropriately ascribed to a given existent , and those predicates which under the same conditions can not be meaningfully said that either they or their contradictories are true of the existent in question . |
| 18 | Concepts , on the other hand , can not be meaningfully described as " temporal " in this sense . |
| 19 | The number of pregnancies that do not produce a viable infant but end in miscarriage , induced abortion or stillbirth or , of those that result in a live born baby with serious health impairment , can not be reliably assessed but it may be put at a much larger figure . |
| 20 | Unless these issues are satisfactorily resolved , ideas emerging from disciplinary study can not be effectively assessed or acted upon in the pedagogic domain . |
| 21 | Class antagonism has undoubtedly relegated national questions far into the background , but , without the risk of lapsing into doctrinairism , it can not be categorically asserted that some particular national question can not temporarily appear in the foreground of the political drama . |
| 22 | Duhem is suggesting that individual non-observation sentences can not be conclusively verified or conclusively falsified by observation , by the evidence of our senses . |
| 23 | Theories can not be conclusively falsified because the observation statements that form the basis for the falsification may themselves prove to be false in the light of later developments . |
| 24 | The mastery of these skills can not be neatly prescribed and tied to a particular method . |
| 25 | As we discussed earlier and argue later , this ‘ ideology ’ has deep biological and emotional reverberations and can not be easily dismissed as generated by propaganda or clever oratory . |
| 26 | It can not be easily defined except for a willingness to experiment and change direction , a confidence , perhaps , in hesitancy . |
| 27 | A child becomes thereby ‘ a child in trust ’ : parental responsibilities can not be easily extinguished or ‘ assumed ’ ( local authority powers in this respect are abolished ) : only through their legal transfer to others , by means of adoption , can they be snuffed out . |
| 28 | What the data show is that the issue of sign universality can not be easily described as confirmed or disproved . |
| 29 | For them , the social order is structured and not composed of discrete and shifting groups : there are real and deep inequalities between classes which can not be easily eliminated or resolved by recourse to a competition , by groups or individuals , for political power . |
| 30 | Goods which can not be quickly used or sold but put strains on cash flow . |