Example sentences of "can not [be] [verb] that [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Tradition maintains that many of the Campbells warned Macdonalds in time for them to escape but it can not be denied that on that winter morning in Glencoe many of the Clan Campbell plumbed the depths of treachery and horror .
2 ‘ It can not be denied that in the face of recession , publishers have been exploring all possible avenues for book sales . ’
3 It can not be overstressed that in any particular circumstance most of the factors will be irrelevant and that one factor will tend to dominate the decision and determine the form of any particular sale .
4 It can not be overstressed that in every sale the reasonableness of the restrictive covenants must be considered in the particular circumstances .
5 It can not be assumed that in all cultures and historical epochs the expression of disparaging remarks about other peoples creates a bad impression .
6 However , wide as the law-making powers of proclamations were , it can not be said that under the Tudors they ever came near to replacing statute .
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