Example sentences of "can not be [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , it is not totally inappropriate that this sort of overlap should exist since RMI must build upon the data that exist within the service ; it can not be separate and unrelated to that which currently exists . |
| 2 | For where it has been drawn is everywhere ; from the insistence of Thorndike , and the early behaviourists like Watson and Hull , that all is to be explained , including human behaviour , in terms of conditioned reflexes , to the open-handedness of well-meaning liberationists like Rollin who argue that even worms and sea anemones should be given the benefit of the doubt since we can not be certain that they do not feel pain and therefore have a consciousness ( 1981 : 31 ) . |
| 3 | The weaker claim is that although one can not be certain that beneficial results will accrue , there are grounds for the probability that they will . |
| 4 | Short of a series of studies which is designed directly to compare regional patterns , holding other variables constant , we can not be certain that any observed variations can be attributed to , say , people 's views about family responsibilities being different in the north-east of England from the prevailing norms in the south-west . |
| 5 | However , these are only projections of current trends and we can not be certain that current levels of morbidity will be reproduced by future generations of elderly . |
| 6 | Again this hope seems set against the tides of history , but again we can not be certain that a positive policy of Empire and tariffs could not have turned back the tide in 1902 or 1912 . |
| 7 | A life prisoner can not be certain that he ever will be released on licence , but he can be certain that he will be considered for release , at latest 17 years after his sentence and periodically thereafter . |
| 8 | We can not be certain that Act 1 scene 1 of Q1692 was ever acted . |
| 9 | Of course , we can not be certain that Europe will succeed . |
| 10 | But we can not be certain that Gould even got as far as the river at all . |
| 11 | Non measurable standards , that is ones where you can not be certain whether or not a specific desired result has been achieved tend to cause trouble since they are easily challenged . |
| 12 | However , we can not be certain whether the subsequent rise in recorded incidents stems from the way the public refers domestic violence to the police or from a real increase in domestic strife . |
| 13 | Consequently if the state appears to be autonomous due to the action of elected elites , we can not be certain whether political leaderships are behaving as ‘ state ’ elites or ‘ social ’ elites . |
| 14 | For now if you , as a supplier , observe a rise in the price of the good on your island of 10 per cent you can not be certain whether all other markets are experiencing the same rise on average . |
| 15 | Economic agents can not be certain whether observed changes in relative prices are ephemeral or permanent . |
| 16 | I think that that is over optimistic , I can not be confident that there will be any local authority provision at all , it seems to me that this particular provision is really vital to Paul 's education and I think it right to ensure that it is available . |
| 17 | Lost , disordered , fearful , we follow what signs there remain ; we read the street names , but can not be confident where we are . |
| 18 | The greatest mass a white dwarf can have is 1–44 times the Sun 's mass ; neutron stars can not be heavier than about two solar masses . |
| 19 | In these societies it can not be accidental that as revolt and protest against traditional values and restraints have grown , so too have the means of external coercion represented by police forces , government agencies , legislation , taxation and a generalized bureaucratic regulation of just about every important aspect of the citizen 's life . |
| 20 | In the unconscious , money and gold are universally understood to be symbols of faeces , and it can not be accidental that analysis of individual delusions of persecution shows that the persecuting object is usually the child 's phantasied idea of the paternal phallus as the retained and hardened faecal mass in its bowel . |
| 21 | Those who argue that the press can not be influential because Labour won elections in the past against a hostile press have inaccurate memories . |
| 22 | But Gallop had doubts , or rather confesses an ambivalence : ‘ But we can not be sure that this radical notion of ‘ heterosexuality' ’ is not just an alibi for the comforting norm' ( pp. 127 — 8 ) . |
| 23 | I can not be sure that he noticed all that , but he stared at it for a long time , getting down on his hands . |
| 24 | We can not be sure that , in choosing a place and time , God was making a point about gender . |
| 25 | On a global level , client satisfaction is clear as client numbers are increasing , but still the CAB can not be sure that its own aims of offering accurate and impartial advice and information are fulfilled . |
| 26 | But even if we tend to look for the scholarly , non-involved biography of the great man or woman we can not be sure that the work will be beyond criticism . |
| 27 | It seems probable that a mixture of the two factors is involved , but we can not be sure that this is the case and we most certainly can not say which is more important than the other — let alone quantify ( in terms of percentages ) their relative importances . |
| 28 | As soon as the stigma is revealed and exposed , you can not be sure that some keen and inquisitive insect wo n't beat you to it and carry in pollen from heaven knows where . |
| 29 | Until the proper motion of the pulsar is measured , we can not be sure that this star is its optical counterpart , but it seems likely . |
| 30 | We can not be sure that they do so directly for so far no adult eel has been caught in mid-Atlantic . |