Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ So , provided the next urine test is OK , I see no reason why she ca n't be discharged as well , ’ said Lindsey . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But they ca n't be rewarded as men can . |
| 14 | They ca n't be sold but they could be a kind of gift ? |
| 15 | They ca n't be changed if they are not identified . |
| 16 | But , importantly , they can not be ignored nor can they be dismissed easily as irrational fabrications . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Paying all pre-payments into a trust account from which they can not be withdrawn until the package has been provided . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They can not be shot or netted since they refuse to budge and will be sitting tight underground . |
| 22 | So , whilst the perils of specialist slots are very real , they can not be relinquished before the mainstream becomes fully representative . |
| 23 | Like the colour of the great shades in the saloon , they can not be replaced or even exactly reproduced . |
| 24 | But they can not be altered unless they are first apprehended . |
| 25 | A problem with this idea is of course that most dreams are not remembered , so that even if solutions to problems are achieved during dreams they can not be regarded as adaptive , unless we are to believe that these solutions are somehow incorporated unconsciously . |
| 26 | For if such complexes ' are to play the role of particulars , they can not be regarded as being logically on a par with single qualities . |
| 27 | In the absence of this information , it is sound practice to make a secondary arrangement of key words ; they can not be left as they are above , for they make sense only as their interrelation is explicitly shown . |
| 28 | Lawrence warned : ‘ Bristol will be relaxed because they can not be promoted or relegated . |
| 29 | They can not be sexed when small , but it would be better to obtain an unrelated female to avoid inbreeding . |
| 30 | The ‘ headlands ’ , where the horses or tractors turn at either end of the ridges , constitute too large a proportion of a smallholder 's roots field to be allowed to lie fallow , but they can not be cultivated and sown until the inter-row hoeing is completed . |