Example sentences of "can not [verb] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Platey particles such as mica flakes may readily pass diagonally through meshes which more nearly spherical grains of identical intermediate diameters can not pass as a result of the length of their short diameters . |
| 2 | Thus , at all pressures below this point carbon dioxide can not exist as a liquid . |
| 3 | ‘ I can not continue as a member of a body which pretends it has power to make priests without the authority of scripture or tradition , ’ he said . |
| 4 | A Soviet statement three days later made it ‘ absolutely clear ’ that the proposal of the EEC states ‘ can not serve as a basis for talks and no-one intends to hold such talks with them ’ . |
| 5 | It can not serve as a term that describes objectively a specific set of conditions . |
| 6 | However , if good and this property are simply the same thing , then the judgement that what has this property is good is just a tautology , and can not serve as the kind of important value judgement it is meant to be . |
| 7 | Thus , Pace argues , Corbett can not serve as the authority on which Parker J. wished to rely in Tan . |
| 8 | Some will weigh the evidence one way and some will weigh it another , but no one , having made a decision to believe in God , will be able to say that their assessment can not change as the argument proceeds . |
| 9 | When the priest can not function as a priest , is he bound to become a prophet ? |
| 10 | A serving probation officer employed full-time in that capacity can not act as a guardian ad litem . |
| 11 | You should remember , however , that this can not act as a barrier if you have damp problems . |
| 12 | Ron , of Gnosall , Staffs , who can not work as a gardener because of a back injury , will now get £81.88 a week . |
| 13 | I can not work as a scribe , and I am beginning to enjoy being free . |
| 14 | Just as " big-step reductionism " can not work as an explanation of mechanism , and must be replaced by a series of small step-by-step peelings down through the hierarchy , so we ca n't explain a complex thing as originating in a single step . |
| 15 | One is the failure to understand the radical hostility of communism to mankind as a whole — the failure to realise that communism is irredeemable , that there exist no ‘ better' ’ variants of communism : that it is incapable of growing ‘ ‘ kinder' ’ , that it can not survive as an ideology without using terror and that consequently to co-exist with communism on the same planet is impossible . |
| 16 | The hand can be distinguished from the body , yet it belongs to it in such a way that it can not operate as a hand unless attached to the body — except in fantasy as in Ted Hughes ' story of The Iron Man . |