Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [be] [adv] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our environmental goals can not be successfully achieved unless action is taken across the Community . |
| 2 | Modern technologies can not be successfully used if they are simply imposed on an unwilling and underskilled workforce . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Concepts , on the other hand , can not be meaningfully described as " temporal " in this sense . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It can not be easily defined except for a willingness to experiment and change direction , a confidence , perhaps , in hesitancy . |
| 12 | What the data show is that the issue of sign universality can not be easily described as confirmed or disproved . |
| 13 | An item can not be significantly posited as existing in any ontological sense , without at the same time , out of every pair of contradictory predicates , one , and only one such predicate can be correctly ascribed to it . |
| 14 | If the right arises through third party assent , that time can not be definitely ascertained where assent is presumed through silence . |
| 15 | It can not be better exemplified than by the uncomfortable relationship of late Cretaceous marine sediments to the metamorphosed Precambrian rocks of the Bohemian Massif , as illustrated in plate 3.1 . |
| 16 | This need can not be better filled than by the Citizens Advice Bureaux . ’ |
| 17 | The dark side of radio politics can not be better illustrated than by Sefton Delmer 's Black Boomerang , an account of the murky world of Britain 's black radio propaganda put out during the war . |
| 18 | Her breakdown can not be better described than in her own words : ‘ She saw , as she thought , devils opening their mouths all inflamed with burning waves of fire , as if they would have swallowed her in , sometimes ramping at her , sometimes threatening her … night and day , during the aforesaid time ’ . |
| 19 | Not really , because ( 1 ) as current flows there is some potential drop in the electrode itself , ( 2 ) zero conductivity for part of the space can not be electrostatically modelled since there are no dielectrics with Er = 0 , and ( 3 ) when current flows through two materials of different conductivity there is generally a surface charge at the boundary ( see Example 3.4 ) . |
| 20 | Purists would argue that type can not be intelligently designed unless the creator understands the calligraphic origin of the thin and broad parts of most typefaces . |
| 21 | b , Transactivation by VP16-Myc N and Max103-VP16 together with Max or Myc N. VP16-Myc N and Max103-VP16 activities can not be directly compared as their relative expression levels are unknown and VP16-Myc N+Max is antagonized by Max+Max in cells ( see text ) . |
| 22 | Undoubtedly we are living through a period of considerable political instability , in which there is a complex ‘ crisis of legitimacy ’ ( to use Habermas ' expression ) not only in the capitalist societies but also in the former communist societies of Eastern Europe , and in many countries of the Third World ; but the crisis works itself out through an international system of relationships , and such events as the overthrow of President Allende 's government in Chile , or American and Soviet military intervention in various regions of the world in the postwar period , can not be fully comprehended unless they are seen in the setting of global political conflicts . |
| 23 | It is indeed still there , to be built on , in Ulysses in the further elaboration of Stephen , but it can not be fully achieved unless the wounds are acknowledged . |
| 24 | But the disorders can not be fully understood unless they are seen in the context of complex political , social and economic factors which together create a predisposition towards violent protest ’ ( para. 8.7 ) . |
| 25 | The aim of this study is to show how these and other aspects of promotions processes can not be fully understood except in the context of a particular organisation . |
| 26 | They therefore can not be fully understood if they are taken at face value , and an investigator must find out what social situations sustain and are reflected in them . |
| 27 | Yet in Britain , ‘ race ’ can not be under stood if it is falsely divorced from other political processes or grasped if it is reduced to the effect of these other relations . |
| 28 | The main good grains on which we depend for an essential part of our daily diet come from plants belonging to the family of grasses and can not be readily digested until the tough outer shells are broken up and , sometimes , removed . |
| 29 | Supporters , however , were keen on its value and C. Silvester Horne wrote that its creation showed that no one could now argue that Nonconformist ‘ unity can not be permanently reared because of an inadequate basis of agreement in matters of faith ’ . |
| 30 | If God 's existence is ‘ wagered upon ’ in the way that the outcome of a race is wagered upon , then by definition that existence can not be certainly known until after the race is run ( presumably after death ) . |