Example sentences of "[pron] can [not/n't] [be] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His ca n't be traced because he does n't have a licence for it . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't see why I ca n't be playing when the season starts in Scotland in September , ’ said Hastings , who needed a four hour operation . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's early June now and I do n't see why I ca n't be playing when the season starts in Scotland in September , ’ said Hastings . |
| 4 | Always plenty of room I ca n't be bothered cos I 've got to give Foxy his shorts |
| 5 | I mean I like dancing and music but I like to have a chat with , I ca n't , I ca n't be bothered if I ca n't chat properly because you ca n't hear yourself |
| 6 | I can not be refuted if I claim that my visual sense-field contains a yellow sense-content , but I can be refuted if I go on to claim that there exists a yellow object that is responsible for my sense-content . |
| 7 | Similarly , I can not be refuted if I claim to experience a religious emotion . |
| 8 | Its atmosphere and suspense are nursed by locality — Petersburg — in ways which ca n't be escaped but which often get misreported . |
| 9 | You 'll get little or no value from notes taken on scrappy paper , which ca n't be filed and retrieved at will or which are difficult to decipher . |
| 10 | Conversely a limp hand in the wash basin and the inevitable question : ‘ Have you had your holidays yet ? ’ will guarantee you a despair which ca n't be dispelled until your head is safely home and inside a bucket of water . |
| 11 | But yesterday a statement issued by Mr Sadler revealed the council 's continued hard line over Sunday opening — which can not be altered until councillors discuss the matter on June 16 . |
| 12 | Guar gum is a complex polysaccharide which can not be digested or absorbed and it appears to have two effects . |
| 13 | Finally , quality control : it is a complex , sophisticated and highly responsible enterprise , demanding knowledge and skills which can not be presumed and therefore require proper training , together with a full and open debate with those whose work is under review about the criteria whereby quality is to be judged . |
| 14 | ‘ Because if morality has a status which can not be challenged or transcended then the search itself is under judgment . ’ |
| 15 | The ‘ bleep test , ’ the faceless , metronomic PT Instructor which can not be cursed or cheated , has honed the squads to a peak of measurable athletic performance , suggesting that our cricketers are fitter than our rugby players . |
| 16 | The poetic work too should be viewed as a ‘ functional structure ’ ( p.46 ) , the different elements of which can not be understood except in their connections with the whole . |
| 17 | First of all , health and health care are seen as political , social and ideological issues which can not be understood or tackled in isolation on a medical or technical basis . |
| 18 | An anonymous memorandum sent to Rome just after his death accused him of storing up great wealth and even of having profited from the neglect of the episcopal estates , accusations which can not be substantiated but which may not have been complete fabrications . |
| 19 | In each case the land has been exploited far beyond its true potential — out of dire necessity during the Wars , and now for blind greed and short-term gain resulting in vast surpluses which can not be eaten or sold . |
| 20 | those which employ a method or means of combat the effects of which can not be limited as required by this Protocol ; and consequently , in each such case , are of a nature to strike military objectives and civilians or civilian objects without distinction . |
| 21 | Every day Theo hears calls for help and especially for pastors for the infant churches , which can not be met as the personnel are not available . |
| 22 | There are obviously important facets of the local political system — such as power , patronage and personality — which can not be quantified and so must be left out of the ‘ explanation ’ . |
| 23 | The major question , which can not be answered until treatment has been attempted , is whether success would only result in preserving what function remains or whether the epithelial cells could reconstitute and resore function to damaged areas of the lung and gut . |
| 24 | A secondment creates appetites which can not be sustained when the work is finished . |
| 25 | However , a new approach to the question of remedies available for breach was occasioned by Diplock LJ in Hong Kong Fir Shipping Co Ltd v Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd [ 1962 ] 2 QB 26 ( at p70 ) : There are … many contractual undertakings of a more complex character which can not be categorised as being " conditions " or " warranties " , if the late 19th century meaning adopted in the Sale of Goods Act , 1893 , and used by Bowen LJ in Bentsen v Taylor , Sons & Co be given to those terms . |
| 26 | But in the long run nature , which can not be ignored or defied with impunity , asserts its power ; … health fails … [ she ] leaves college a good scholar but a delicate and ailing woman … the special functions which have relation to her future offices as a woman , and the full and perfect accomplishment of which is essential to sexual completeness , have been deranged at a critical time . |
| 27 | Once he 's harvested the wheat crop , there 's still the beans , which can not be cut because of the rain . |
| 28 | Video pictures are recorded in the form of overlapping magnetic signals which can not be cut and respliced without severely disrupting the pictures when the tape is played back . |
| 29 | Sharp increases in local prices which can not be predicted and rises and falls in exchange rates lead to much confusion when trying to determine an expatriate 's disposable income . |
| 30 | If we are to know anything , we must proceed on the basis of certain things which can not be proved but which must be presupposed . |