Example sentences of "but can not [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These include chips known as read-only memories or ROMs that store preprogrammed data without power but can not be erased , and instantly erasable chips that require constant power , known as random-access memories or RAMs . |
| 2 | Or is it that When the vile or appalling ‘ lies quite close , but can not be assimilated … at the border of my condition as a living being ’ ( Julia Kristeva ) , what is produced is a momentarily heightened sense of one 's own aliveness , teetering on the brink of extinction ? |
| 3 | The area office has a discretion to extend the time limit but can not be relied upon to exercise this other than in the most extenuating circumstances . |
| 4 | In these circumstances the guardian may , with the leave of the court , have separate legal representation but can not be granted legal aid for this purpose ( FPCR , r11(3) ; FPR , r4.11(3) ) . |
| 5 | In litigation and arbitration , the amount of the costs is subject to the control of the court 's " taxation " procedures , which are made available to arbitrations by s18(2) of the Arbitration Act 1950 , but can not be made available for expert determinations by any means , including a provision to that effect in the expert clause . |
| 6 | They say that the risk is small , but can not be ruled out . |
| 7 | The binary policy , which is central to the history of higher education from its elaboration in the second half of the 1960s , and intimately related to the history of the CNAA 's own policies and operations , is explained by many or all of these factors , but can not be separated from perceptions of the roles and attitudes of the universities that we have previously discussed , and which were part of the decision-making environment of the mid- and late 1960s . |
| 8 | Percutaneous aspiration cytology has been reported as confirming malignancy in about two thirds of pancreatic cancers and one half of bile duct tumours but can not be done unless a mass lesion is established on imaging . |
| 9 | He is now living apart from the children 's mother , but can not be named for legal reasons . |
| 10 | if this happens at the beginning of an utterance , a left-to-right strategy may consume a great amount of time examining interpretations which look good initially , but can not be completed . |
| 11 | That leaves difficult cases where an expert has reached a decision which is widely believed to be incorrect but can not be challenged . |
| 12 | The decision in Rask is , of course , considerable help in support of the contention that the claim would otherwise have succeeded , but can not be said to be conclusive on the point , since it is for the national court to evaluate all the circumstances when assessing whether there was in any particular case a transfer of a business . |
| 13 | The agreement between the two ministries also provides for the care of cultural objects and monuments that belong to the other but can not be moved . |
| 14 | The coral skeleton is ground into small particles , but can not be digested . |
| 15 | The same is true of town and village rugs , and individual items that clearly originate from a broadly defined area or region , but can not be tied down to a specific village or town will be marketed under the name of the general location . |
| 16 | The package has been successfully read out of LIFESPAN and updated , but can not be re-entered into LIFESPAN because you are either not the package manager or do not have an active DC referencing the package . |
| 17 | Most simply replace the existing rocker switch , but can not be used for controlling the fluorescent lighting . |
| 18 | This whole group of paints are in no inferior to the very liquid paints , they are similarly versatile , but can not be used as inks , which the thinner acrylics do so well . |
| 19 | French raider The Fellow , hero of last year 's King George at Kempton , would have a great chance with conditions in his favour but can not be fancied on unsuitably soft ground . |
| 20 | Newspaper readers ' preferences are an equally complex business but can not be dealt with here at length . |
| 21 | Above : The Dwarf Gourami is peaceful , but can not be trusted with fry . |
| 22 | Notable among these is the fact that the mismatch of range is even greater than in the case of the prenominal adjectives ; it is true that one can usually expand a postnominal adjective to a relative clause containing be , though we should certainly note cases like : ( 31 ) he is dreaming of the whisky which will be galore with her arms which were akimbo she stared at Victor food which is aplenty is on sale in the end tent however , there is not the slightest difficulty about producing numerous examples where the relative clause with be is fully satisfactory but can not be reduced to a grammatical postnominal adjective . |
| 23 | Note : A tour of Egypt is a unique and fascinating experience but can not be described as leisurely . |
| 24 | A file should exist online for the module but can not be found . |
| 25 | Memories of happy days on the hills never fade but can not be shared with others through the medium of the written word as effectively as colourful pictures . |
| 26 | Accordingly , his cause of action for an infringement before the date of sealing accrues at the date of the infringement but can not be enforced until the procedural requirement of sealing is met . |
| 27 | It makes no sense at all to tell an attractive transsexual employed as a secretary , possessed of all the necessary documentation of her sex change and all the physical attributes of her new sex — breasts , female figure , and vagina ( albeit a constructed one ) — that she can pass as a woman , but can not be raped because she is a man . |
| 28 | Wood can always be stained to a darker shade than its present state , but can not be lightened other than by bleaching . |