Example sentences of "what can not [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it is itself always also paradoxical , for it discloses what can not be scaled down to be contained , proved , measured , demonstrated or explained within the framework of finite human reasoning . |
| 2 | It does seem to me an extraordinary catalogue of errors erm and one can well understand how errors take p er could , could have occurred during the somewhat co chaotic passage of the Railways Bill er what , what can not be understood and what is quite inexcusable is , is the fact that no steps adequate steps have been taken to correct those errors and to assure the er continued existence of a er Transport Police which er h h has the sole responsibility for er policing large public spaces in , in this country and er as the Noble Lord has made clear , er does it honour er very considerable scale , very effectively er I hope that the Minister will find it possible to make a favourable reply to the arguments which have been raised . |
| 3 | Ever a man for taking the particular to exhibit the general , this allowed him a global crack at the Scots : he claimed that they were not interested in doing anything unless it had natural awkwardness in it : ‘ What can not be done without some uncommon trouble or particular expedient , will not often be done at all . |
| 4 | They reveal precisely what can not be expressed through the closed categories of language or encompassed by the gaze alone . |
| 5 | A very good example of what can not be achieved by severance is found in Baker v Hedgecock ( 1888 ) 39 Ch D 520 . |
| 6 | In the words of F. H. Bradley — someone who held views similar in many respects to Oakeshott — if we abstract those features which result from social context the exercise becomes ‘ a theoretical attempt to isolate what can not be isolated ’ . |
| 7 | What can not be denied is that they emerge from much experience in the author , and much original thought , that they are moreover integrated in a fiction which has a power independent of them . |
| 8 | or sightlessness for what can not be seen |
| 9 | Evasive certainly , but only to acknowledge what can not be uttered . |
| 10 | What can not be justified quantitatively can not command large resources . |
| 11 | What can not be ignored is that the players are the ones who provide the entertainment , sometimes at considerable personal cost . |
| 12 | What can not be tolerated is the monster that pretends to modernity . |
| 13 | What can not be known are the thoughts or expectations in someone else 's mind . |
| 14 | Accompanying this progressive distancing , there is a distancing from graspable reality , an increasing emphasis on what can not be known or explained : " resembling mysterious incomprehensible crazy of aspect as if abandoned no sign … " . |
| 15 | What can not be doubted is that Unionists , who had drawn level with the Liberals in 1910 , had made up more ground on them since . |
| 16 | To be modernist , a post-war French aphorist once remarked , is to mess about with what can not be mended ( ‘ bricoler dans l'incurable ’ ) . |
| 17 | What can not be deduced or predicted is precisely how the specifications will be met , nor which materials will be employed . |
| 18 | And we shall not claim as experience of the Spirit what can not be shown to flow from Jesus . |
| 19 | ln that case the last clause — ‘ in that land were we born ’ — is no patriotic bugle-note , but rather a flat acknowledgement of what can not be helped . |
| 20 | What can not be claimed is that education is always the cause and economic growth the effect . |
| 21 | It needs to be laid down what can and what can not be discussed by an Apex Conference , my branch wish to remove the present restriction and ask for your support . |