Example sentences of "they can not [adv] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Benue Rift deposits are spread out along 600 km , so they can not yet be said to have been adequately characterised , but the technical , stylistic , compositional and lead isotope evidence now points to the Igbo-Ukwu bronzes originating within Nigeria . |
| 2 | More specifically , Cornall noted ; ‘ cross-curricular themes may be all right but they can not adequately be taught through foundation subjects . |
| 3 | Where the property of A is mixed with that of B which is of substantially the same nature and quality and they can not practicably be separated ( grain in a bin , oil in a tank ) the mixture is owned in common in proportion to the quantity contributed by each and the law is the same whether the mixing is wrongful or by consent . |
| 4 | An important feature is that once bonuses are given , they can not later be withdrawn or put at risk due to some speculative investment . |
| 5 | Of course , where politicians are denied control , they can not normally be expected to assume accountability , thus undermining the principle that public administration should be publicly accountable . |
| 6 | Because they can not generally be metabolised or excreted , organochlorines tend to accumulate gradually in the blubber , which in adult belugas accounts for 35 per cent of the body weight . |
| 7 | In principle it is impossible because skills are by their nature totally integrated and interactive so that they can not meaningfully be separated into independent parts . |
| 8 | Nonetheless , there are important differences between landscape and wildlife , in terms of way their qualities can be measured , perceived and protected , which suggest they can not easily be treated as one and the same . |
| 9 | The South American porcupines ( below , left ) may not look as impressive as the great crested species from Africa ( below , right ) but their quills are sharply barbed so that once they have entered a predator 's flesh they can not easily be removed . |
| 10 | They can not easily be used to describe those events outside of us , like our social circumstances or what psychiatrists call ‘ life events ’ , that have such a critical impact on our emotions . |
| 11 | What is interesting about Christian guidelines for economic life is that they can not easily be classified as either right wing or left wing , capitalist or socialist . |
| 12 | However , so long as the images are in analogue form , they can not easily be processed and manipulated . |
| 13 | But London hotels can not expect to go on charging high prices when they can not even be bothered to welcome guests in their own language . |
| 14 | But , in the words of Grant ( 1987 : 56–7 ) , ‘ the distinctive relationship that the nationalised industries have with government , and the politically charged environment in which they operate , means that they can not simply be treated as a special case of the close relationship that many large privately owned enterprises have with government . ’ |
| 15 | Even if working-class crime is promoted by the same features of capitalism as produce socialist consciousness this is no basis for automatically equating them : working-class crime may express purely personal goals or , if there are some wider underlying objectives , they can not necessarily be assumed to be socialist ones . |
| 16 | The media have a right to publish defamatory remarks at the risk of paying heavy damages if they can not subsequently be justified . |
| 17 | There is a good case for excluding these economically inactive people since they can not really be described as capable and available for full-time work . |
| 18 | But it is easy to map out some of the important ‘ moments ’ ( though they can not always be dated precisely or uniformly across regions and social groups ) One would be the take-up , by former illiterates , of broadsides ; these had a printed text but , almost always , simply stipulated the use of an orally transmitted tune . |
| 19 | Topics may have been defined , but they can not always be slotted neatly into an existing structure . |
| 20 | They can not always be anticipated . |
| 21 | Often innkeepers will make exceptional arrangements for such persons as a gesture of goodwill ( e.g. letting them sleep in the lounge ) , but they can not legally be required to do so . |
| 22 | But the distinguishing feature of those films ( even if they can not quite be credited with inventing the conceit ) was what might be called their sense of the inverted anachronism . |
| 23 | They are the kind of assumptions which make whole sciences possible and rational , and they can not therefore be tested within these sciences . |