Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun] can not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowledge Linked to the power acquired through the control of information is that acquired through the possession of some specialised knowledge or skill , particularly where that knowledge can not be easily substituted . |
| 2 | Place the cage where it will not be disturbed and where direct sunlight can not fall on it . |
| 3 | In practice , we live in an uncertain environment where future events can not be predicted with certainty and capital markets are far from perfect . |
| 4 | This is of limited use in personal injury work where these items can not be recovered separately on a taxation . |
| 5 | ( a ) Retirement and expulsion As explained in earlier chapters of this book , where no express provision is contained in a partnership agreement or satisfactory arrangements can not be agreed to meet the particular circumstances of the partner concerned , the Partnership Act only offers dissolution as the answer to what to do with a partner whose continued presence in the firm is unwanted by his co-partners . |
| 6 | Also , abdominal complaints in most of the symptomatic patients not taking NSAIDs have settled once their endoscopy was reported normal : irritable bowel ( or stomach ) syndrome , or non-ulcer dyspepsia can not be excluded in these patients . |
| 7 | In large-scale national surveys , as carried out regularly by market research firms and government agencies , interviews may be carried out over the whole country and the people who have the task of making the analysis of several hundred or thousand schedules can not possibly be for ever phoning through to the interviewers to ask what some cryptic little scribble opposite question number 15 is supposed to mean . |
| 8 | Spotty or regimented planting can not be tolerated either . |
| 9 | Here , the value of well-documented museum collections or excavated finds can not be overstated . |
| 10 | Their relevance outside the situation for which they were designed , where eventual aims can not be so readily related to learning objectives , should not therefore be taken on trust ( see Widdowson 1983 ) . |
| 11 | According to the Commission , the grey squirrel ( introduced from America at the end of last century ) can out-compete the red for food supplies in broadleaved woods , but the latter can thrive in pure conifer areas , where grey squirrels can not prosper . |
| 12 | But a regular inspection every four or five years can not by itself be sufficient protection for the parents or the children ; nor can it provide enough information by which to judge the effectiveness of a school . |
| 13 | This is not so much a matter of transaction costs as of the unpredictability of offer and counter-offer : it moves economics into the realm of game theory , where efficient outcomes can not be taken for granted ( see box ) . |
| 14 | As control methods they have the advantage of low capital outlay , although there is the ongoing need to purchase the masking and counteracting agent , as and when necessary , and case of application , being particularly valuable where other methods can not be applied . |
| 15 | The author of a social study of Norwich reasoned that as ‘ Unemployment is partly a problem of education ’ , so ‘ a half-trained or untrained man can not adapt himself easily and rapidly to the endless changes of production under modern conditions . ’ |
| 16 | A damaged or dirty item can not be sold . |
| 17 | As soon as any outbreak of violence , however mild , occurs in society , then damage is done , if it 's only to the social fabric of society , because one or two people can not go about their business , can not go about their pleasure , in the way in which they would wish to . |
| 18 | The principal faced with a troubled or disruptive child can not simply send him someplace else . |
| 19 | It has been criticised there on the grounds that any decision on lending which is based on how many characteristics an applicant shares with good or bad payers can not directly reflect the reality of whether or not that individual will be a good payer . |
| 20 | Local staff or voluntary workers can not be expected to have the resources , time or experience to ensure that telecommunications , backdrop , crowd flow , music , lighting and camera positions are available at the right time and in the right way . |
| 21 | And , because we are seen as neutral we often get the families ’ co-operation where local authorities can not . |
| 22 | Moreover , the ozone deposition velocity is so low over water ( 0.1cms -1 ) that dry deposition can not explain the rate of ozone loss apparent in Fig. 1 during morning hours . |
| 23 | My right hon. Friend will know that reserve aeroplanes can not simply be trundled out of a hangar and launched into the air . |
| 24 | It follows that fictional things can not function as genuine subjects of predication , and in the strict sense can not be 'talked about' at all . |
| 25 | It allowed , for instance , a little chat between Mrs Thatcher and a BBC reporter , the main purpose of which escaped me , unless it was to show that that lady can not be excluded from anything . |
| 26 | But where one concludes from this that theistic terms can not be understood , the other concludes that they are the language of ‘ faith ’ , directly given to the believer by God . |
| 27 | Note that aggregate supply can not strictly be regarded as being the same as national income . |
| 28 | However , this analysis is important in showing that it is not rational expectations itself which produces the result that monetary policy can not be used to stabilize real variables in the economy ; rather , it is the combination of rational expectations and a particular class of model . |
| 29 | For these reasons monetarists argue that monetary policy can not be used for short-run demand management . |
| 30 | For myself , I remain convinced that private morality can not be divorced from public and environmental moralities and I predict that the politics of the future will have to lay greater stress on this area of life . |