Example sentences of "[pron] can [not/n't] be [conj] " in BNC.

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1 There can not be and there should not be any attempt to open up a party political divide over the importance of further reducing tobacco consumption .
2 As a result the later Chapters of this book explore some of the these areas ; they can not be as focussed on the specifically procedural aspects of prosecution and trial .
3 At the same time , in a quite different direction , the ‘ arts ’ run through into areas of human thought and discourse — values , truths , ideas , observations , reports — where , though the ‘ aesthetic ’ perceptions may be still quite relevant , they can not be and in practice are not taken as wholly defining .
4 In a third part , the objection must be that with respect to confirmed hypotheses as to condition-sets , it can not be that those condition-sets are causal circumstances as conceived .
5 Though intimidation was not discussed in the case it can not be that B could have avoided the binding nature of the contract by the simple device of counterclaiming for damages for intimidation and it seems therefore that for the purposes of intimidation the plaintiff should be required to show unlawful coercion at least of such a degree as would enable him to avoid a contract .
6 He can not be as dominating in the air as a 6ft.4in goalkeeper .
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