Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [adv] [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 I can hardly be blamed if the production was cancelled . ’
9 Not to sort of well you , you ca n't be blamed because I mean yo , in the innocent you were actually going because of the concert .
10 ‘ So , provided the next urine test is OK , I see no reason why she ca n't be discharged as well , ’ said Lindsey .
11 If you can not be contacted or do not make acceptable repayment proposals within a reasonable time , we may commence or continue procedures to enforce repayment .
12 establish the principle that when your office door is open you are willing to accept ‘ drop in callers ’ but when it is shut you can not be disturbed except for a real emergency
13 You can only be hurt if you do — and you will surely hurt her .
14 Most of them ca n't be played because they 're so fragile and if they were restored they would n't make their original sound .
15 But they ca n't be rewarded as men can .
16 They ca n't be sold but they could be a kind of gift ?
17 They ca n't be changed if they are not identified .
18 But they can also be seen as communicatively motivated , the realization of available resources to get a message across .
19 They can also be repaired if punctured using PVC cement and/or patches .
20 Although there are many types of dementia they can generally be defined as involving progressive and irreversible brain failure .
21 PageMaker has a very clever habit of remembering all the changes that have been made to a document so that they can either be Undone or Reverted to .
22 But , importantly , they can not be ignored nor can they be dismissed easily as irrational fabrications .
23 But for those with a relatively static model of the universe and more or less fixed expectations , the discrepancies are deeply troubling if they can not be ignored or resolved by supplementary perceptual categories .
24 Paying all pre-payments into a trust account from which they can not be withdrawn until the package has been provided .
25 However , their benefits are much less tangible than a physical product in that they can not be stored or displayed and satisfaction is achieved through activities ( e.g. transportation from one place to another rather than say a seat on a train ) .
26 Some of these aspects may well combine in complex and inexplicable ways in the learning process and clearly the teacher can not take the chance of depriving learners of effective learning conditions on the grounds that they can not be explained or controlled .
27 They can not be shot or netted since they refuse to budge and will be sitting tight underground .
28 So , whilst the perils of specialist slots are very real , they can not be relinquished before the mainstream becomes fully representative .
29 Like the colour of the great shades in the saloon , they can not be replaced or even exactly reproduced .
30 But they can not be altered unless they are first apprehended .
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