Example sentences of "can not [be] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He meant that the deepest and profoundest truth , the truth that ultimately matters and is in the end really worth grasping , can not be of the sort that can be contemplated and appropriated in an attitude of serene detachment . |
| 2 | No planks for the flooring yet , and if it is raining we can not be on the roof . |
| 3 | In Fig. 9–7(a) point 1 is the centre of the box and , unless individuals have identical preference maps , can not be on the contract curve . |
| 4 | Although this leads to productive links with other agencies and services , it can not be in the best interests of the students . |
| 5 | And then to withhold one 's vote as with almost a matter of habit and routine , that can not be in the best interests of the Conservative party . |
| 6 | Those emigrés who have settled in Western society have found that their diaspora churches can not be like the great populist and establishment churches of Russia and Greece ; they have to survive as nonconformist ‘ sects ’ . |
| 7 | Surely I can not be like the old murmuring Israelites , to long after the onions and garlic of Egypt when they had suffered there such heavy bondage ? |