Example sentences of "[subord] it can not [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally , if they ask the tribe of their head of state for compensation , they locate the claim to sovereignty where it can not be . |
| 2 | So it is not only the visible and active exercise of power that needs to be equalized , but also the possession of power , which , where it can not be redistributed , must at least be made accountable within the framework of democracy . |
| 3 | There can be no doubt that this sort of help is most valuable for teachers , and where it can not be provided from a curriculum development project itself might in less ambitious form be offered from a teachers ' centre or from a schools library service , although in the latter case the advice on sub-themes and topics would necessarily be tentative rather than prescriptive . |
| 4 | Where it can not be entirely eliminated , human error must be made evident or difficult . |
| 5 | The position I have tried to adopt is that whilst the atheist must demand clarity , the theist can argue that the nature of his or her task necessitates a use of language that is bound to be criticised as unusual , although it can not be allowed to be contradictory . |
| 6 | Apart from the disinfection role a sterilising sink has a useful secondary role in providing heated soaking facilities for heavily soiled small equipment although it can not be used for both roles at the same time . |
| 7 | Thirdly , thorough cooking and rapid cooking will usually destroy pathogens although it can not be relied on to destroy spores or preformed toxins . |
| 8 | John Smith may prove to be the man to give Labour its best chance in a 1996 general election ( although it can not be good to have had him all but enthroned as leader before the leadership contest was even underway ) . |
| 9 | ‘ How would I feel in these circumstances ? ’ is not a bad beginning , although it can not be an ending . |
| 10 | Subsequently , the Galactic Centre has been shown to be astonishingly bright at many wavelengths , although it can not be seen optically because it is obscured by intervening dust . |
| 11 | Although it can not be ruled out that some unconscious oro-pharyngeal muscle movement was occurring during the experimental tasks , ‘ inner speech ’ is probably not dependent on such movements . |
| 12 | Although it can not be entirely free of period distortions , it shows more modest fluctuations in fertility than the TFR and in particular gives an estimate of fertility of over 2 children for most of the time since 1972 , not the 1.8 or so given by the IFR . |
| 13 | The move back to full employment , an integral part of the reform being advocated here , will itself have an indirect effect on wage levels , particularly for those at the bottom end of the income pile , although it can not be stressed enough that the drive towards full employment must be matched by a commitment to improve the productivity of all workers — including those on low pay . |
| 14 | Although it can not be proved , there is a strong likelihood that they were working at the old Tilberthwaite Mine in the early part of the next century … someone was , as we shall see late . |
| 15 | However , although it can not be achieved in practice , the concept of an isolated system il important in estimating the maximum theoretical energy differences between a system and surroundings . |
| 16 | This realization has led to a great deal of debate and , although it can not be said that a general consensus has been reached on how best to define development , a good deal of light has been shed on the processes involved in different types of development . |
| 17 | Although it can not be worked on , it will still be available to be used as the basis for a new DC ( at least until it has been hard copied ) . |
| 18 | After pressing for about twenty seconds you remove your hand and , as you do so , you remove the coin but take it upwards so it can not be seen , look at the forehead as if the coin is still there and start everyone counting . |
| 19 | With one system , the disc is read by a laser beam which does not touch the surface so it can not be damaged . |
| 20 | If during the period of habituation the touch of the glass rod is coupled with some other stimulus — say a bright light — the original response at once returns in full , so it can not be merely because of exhaustion that it disappeared in the first place . |
| 21 | Detailed data takes up space so it can not be presented in a volume of this scale , yet without it much of the theorizing of social anthropologists seems trivial and obvious or merely boastful . |
| 22 | ‘ If it can not be avoided , it will have to happen , ’ he told the Chartered Institute of Transport on 4 May . |
| 23 | After two days of trying , however , the shares remained unsold last night and stockbrokers Hoare Govett have the problem of starting their attempted placing all over again this morning in the knowledge that if it can not be done today , holidays prevent them trying again until Tuesday . |
| 24 | It is rather that the whole point of a national curriculum will be lost if it can not be assumed that children at 11 will be ready for whatever is the generally agreed content of the first year at secondary school . |
| 25 | Very little benefit is gained by imposing a condition relating to odour emission if it can not be enforced , and for that reason conditions which refer to the responsibilities of a third party , such as : ‘ all odours must be abated to the satisfaction of the Environmental Health Department ’ , should be avoided . |
| 26 | In another text Ulpian states that , if it can not be discovered from the testator 's habits , his domicile , or the context in the will which denomination was intended , then the smaller denomination is to be understood . |
| 27 | The painter told a young man joining the navy , ‘ Never purchase any enjoyment if it can not be purchased without borrowing of others . |
| 28 | Below and beyond this zone behavioural responses must become the major controlling mechanism , but this becomes metabolically expensive , and must lead to exhaustion if it can not be made good by an increased intake of food and rest . |
| 29 | This outward aggression , however , if it can not be expressed to the object has to be turned inwards in depression , which is anger turned back upon the person . |
| 30 | In characteristic style , Professor Tweedie is determined to stamp on loose interpretation now , before the issue gets out of hand , and is not beyond threatening to throw an encyclopaedia of rules at the profession if it can not be trusted to follow the spirit of the ASB 's principles . |