Example sentences of "can not [be] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accurate reports of certain public occasions are " privileged " — which is to say that any defamatory statements arising from them can not be made the subject of a successful libel action . |
| 2 | The Strathclyde university report stated : ’ The idea of a mature tobacco market ’ — that means a market which can not expand any further ’ can not be supported the key group for the tobacco industry is young smokers . |
| 3 | For example , it has been pointed out that one person can not be asked the same question twice , the second time he is not the same person because he has already been asked the question once . |
| 4 | As the risk and returns of most of the assets can not be observed the tests hitherto had been biased . |
| 5 | Such a motion is exempted business , so that the House in question can not be denied the opportunity to pass upon the matter simply by government manipulation of time , but in relation to the vast majority of instruments , opposition is pointless and rarely mounted . |
| 6 | If an individual item can not be matched the wording of this clause should be brought to the attention of the policyholder . |
| 7 | ‘ Even assuming a genuine ecclesiastic use of the chapel following demolition of the remainder , it can not be said the church as such is still in ecclesiastical use or would be but for the works . ’ |
| 8 | It can not be proved the virgin birth happened . |
| 9 | Clearly they can not be detecting the direction of the rays of light and moving away from the source , because illumination is from above . |
| 10 | The supplied username is not known to LIFESPAN and , therefore , can not be passed the Software Performance Report ( SPR ) . |
| 11 | Of course the parallel between ontogeny and phylogeny can not be carried the whole way through — prehistoric human beings did not look like newborn babies — but there are various reasons why we might expect the early stages of embryonic development to have some relation to the early stages of our evolution . |
| 12 | The reason Jesus used parables can not be to hide the truth from people because this is not the intention of teaching and it seems out of character with what we learn about Jesus elsewhere in the Gospel . |