Example sentences of "can not [adv] [be] [vb pp] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , but my Lord er I think the difficulty is that as far as my learned friend is concerned er he takes the view and it 's probably better for him to develop this your Lordship , that the matters can not properly be separated and he wishes your Lordship to deal with them in total so that er the whole picture can be seen at liability stage . |
| 2 | This is a conflict of interest which can not easily be overcome and hardly augurs well for the future reconciliation of the differences between the agricultural and non-agricultural rural population . |
| 3 | However , so long as the images are in analogue form , they can not easily be processed and manipulated . |
| 4 | English poststructuralists , when wearing their Marxist hats , would undoubtedly want to insist that ideas belong in larger contexts , social , cultural , and political , and can not easily be abstracted and appropriated to other ends . |
| 5 | It may be that we are becoming a more ‘ criminal ’ nation as the increase in crime rates would suggest , but this can not just be assumed and it is important to be aware of other possible reasons for such an increase . |
| 6 | Externally the palazzo is genuinely four-sided , I say ‘ genuinely ’ because although all buildings are four-sided ( unless they are triangular ) , each of the four sides can not always be viewed and walked along as they can here . |
| 7 | Refined or classic French cookery — call it haute cuisine if you must — and French regional , provincial , farmhouse and peasant styles of cookery can not arbitrarily be isolated and set apart one from the other . |
| 8 | It is true that Morris contains no disapproval or qualification of Lawrence , but , in my view , the main statements of principle in these cases can not possibly be reconciled and the later case therefore must not be regarded as providing any support for the earlier . |