Example sentences of "can not [verb] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this reason , although Iveco runs a fully integrated European operation , the group can not trade as a single company with a single board of directors . |
| 2 | Such a response seems understandable given that it allows McFaul to explain why he is at odds with the Party while still maintaining that he is loyal to its principles and to its founder , but it can not stand as a general proposition . |
| 3 | For this reason a white hole can not serve as a viable energy machine . |
| 4 | The BCC can not function as a holding company , but can carry out auxiliary service activities for the group , which would include treasury functions . |
| 5 | The conclusion derived from this is that if an object is such that in principle it can not be referred to directly and unequivocally with a simple symbol , only described , then it can not qualify as a fundamental ontological existent . |
| 6 | Under U.S. law , an ocean freight forwarder can not act as a common carrier or as an agent for such a carrier and thus can not be a NVOCC . |
| 7 | In the fashion of the philosophers John Locke and David Hume one may say that one can not live as a total sceptic or one would achieve nothing . |