Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [be] [adv] [verb] [coord] " 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 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Health care can not be conveniently packaged and priced into such things as health problems of the ‘ elderly ’ or ‘ mentally ill ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The activity of psychoanalysis in the therapeutic setting can not be adequately grasped and stated in mechanistic , quantitative terms . |
| 9 | Most of the final parts of this story can not be independently verified but events appear to have run as follows . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Unless these issues are satisfactorily resolved , ideas emerging from disciplinary study can not be effectively assessed or acted upon in the pedagogic domain . |
| 12 | Duhem is suggesting that individual non-observation sentences can not be conclusively verified or conclusively falsified by observation , by the evidence of our senses . |
| 13 | The mastery of these skills can not be neatly prescribed and tied to a particular method . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Goods which can not be quickly used or sold but put strains on cash flow . |
| 17 | Its remuneration in the form of wages may not be very high , but does offer a measure of security , in that wages are contractually established and regulated under existing labour laws , which means that in theory they can not be arbitrarily withdrawn or altered . |
| 18 | The Trust is also uniquely empowered , under its Act of Parliament , to declare its properties inalienable , which means that they can not be compulsorily acquired or used for any purpose against the Trust 's wishes without specific parliamentary consent . |
| 19 | For example , we can prevent factories that are obviously discharging their waste into rivers , from doing so ; and there is virtually no kind of effluent nowadays that can not be safely treated and disposed of , if we are prepared to spend the money . |
| 20 | Where the UCTA controls exclusion clauses its approach is either to state that liability for the matter in question " can not be excluded or restricted by reference to any contract term " ( imposition of a total ban ) or to state that such liability can not be so excluded or restricted unless the relevant contract term " satisfies the test of reasonableness " . |
| 21 | One characteristic difference between phonological and syntactic systems has far-reaching implications for the study of variation : although phonological systems change through time and so can not be absolutely closed and finite , they are more closed and finite in character than syntactic systems . |
| 22 | With mind all is opposite ; minds are not substantial , do not apparently obey physical laws , can not be directly observed or inspected , unless it is my own mind that is in question . |
| 23 | The reason for the discriminatory practices described throughout this book can not be fully understood and tackled without reference to the concept of ageism . |
| 24 | The prospective gains can not be fully harnessed and enjoyed if the losses are not first acknowledged and then mourned . |
| 25 | Severe bruising to the ribs can not be satisfactorily dressed or protected within the rules of competition , but female competitors can use breast shields which may extend over the injury site . |
| 26 | If we say , you see , that the function of the dream is to safeguard sleep , and to fulfil wishes , then it 's clear that in the real world not all wishes are fulfillable and it may well be that , that the latent thoughts , in some cases , is so alarming and so disturbing , that they can not be sufficiently disguised and will lead to a state of waking , and that waking proves of course that the dream has failed in its function of safeguarding sleep . |
| 27 | SIR , — In your April 24 editorial you state that the risk for patients exposed to an HIV-infected healthcare worker ( HCW ) can not be accurately calculated but must be small . |