Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [adv] [be] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can normally be contacted on either or , or at the following address : . |
| 2 | The topmost foliage is taller than me and the growth is so dense I can not be seen from the lawn as I dig into the muddy trench which forms an oasis round the stem . |
| 3 | I have discharged my duty , she thought , I can not be troubled by my conscience in that respect . |
| 4 | I can not be mistaken about perceiving something as , say , a cigarette case , because in saying , ‘ It looks like a cigarette case ’ I am not saying that there is an appearance which is a cigarette case . |
| 5 | ‘ I can not be suspected by anyone of seeking prestige , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Furthermore , complexes formed by oligonucleotide I can not be competed with oligonucleotide III and vice versa oligonucleotide III complexes can not be competed with oligonucleotide I ( Fig. 3 , lanes 1–4 ) . |
| 7 | If my servant , acting bona fide within the scope of his authority , procures or causes me to break a contract which I have made with you , you can not sue the servant for interference with the contract ; for he is my alter ego here , and I can not be sued for inducing myself to break a contract , although I may be liable for breaking the contract . |
| 8 | If you 've got some new material on him that you want to share with us , I 'm more than happy to arrange another lecture for you later in the term , but frankly , as you 've apparently given the same lecture on him for the past ten years , I can hardly be accused of interfering with academic freedom , can I ? ’ |
| 9 | Now if ‘ I can only be known by description , and the only description which is true of it is ‘ that group of mental states , caused by the same living body ’ of which the envy and my judgement are members ' , it follows that anyone who does not describe ‘ I ’ in that way , will not know what ‘ I ’ means , and so will mean nothing when he says ‘ I was envious yesterday ’ . |
| 10 | If your child is over 16 , he or she can not be tested for HIV without his or her permission . |
| 11 | She can not be touched by any more strangers . |
| 12 | Her mother has been told that she can not be cured in this country , so with family and friends she 's launched an appeal to try to raise thousands of pounds to take Natalie to the Hoxey Clinic in Mexico City for specialist herbal treatment . |
| 13 | The giant who knows she can not be helped in any way . |
| 14 | But she can not be accused of lack of emotional intensity in the 15 songs of The Book of the Hanging Gardens . |
| 15 | There was , too , the how-dun-it , the book in which it soon becomes evident who the murderer is but in which he or she can not be brought to satisfying justice unless some ingenious , proof-defying method used is brought to light . |
| 16 | I have been there three times , but each time they say I must go back to the Home Office and try to get my daughter a visa for longer than a six months ' stay in Britain ; otherwise she can not be admitted to school . |
| 17 | Having spent many years arguing for government support for the British fashion industry — and getting nowhere — she can not be blamed for opting to manufacture and show abroad . |
| 18 | Barbara Stace ( Mrs Taylor ) does not regard herself as having had a career other than marriage and family life though she admits to having done ‘ some teaching , some voluntary work especially with the local community association , learning a few new skills , keeping up with my old hobbies ’ and she can invariably be met behind the souvenirs stall at Somerville Gaudy . |
| 19 | She can now be seen on general release in the Neil Jordan film The Crying Game , cast as an IRA terrorist . |
| 20 | then he or she can only be forced to hand back the item if the price it cost him or her is paid in compensation [ Art . |
| 21 | If you balance the filth of the rumours or the sly hints and obnoxious asides of people like Robert and my agent against the decent , if romantic , dignities shown in the preceding paragraph and again in the portrayal of the girl I saw earlier on this night you can surely be left in no doubt as to where the weight of the truth fall . |
| 22 | Cos they do n't actually , if you do something like that , say you put plus five , minus five and then sit down and , you 're the one that plus three and minus three you do n't actually lose marks doing something wrong , you can not be penalised for doing it wrong , you can only gain credit for doing something right , because they 'll , give you five marks to doing that bit right and then knock three off for doing something else wrong , they , they would never give you penalty marks , they will only credit for doing things right , but so often it 's quite like down as you want , you ca n't . |
| 23 | She knows that if she uses power there is a price to pay — you can not be loved by everyone , you may stand beyond the normal bounds of acceptability . |
| 24 | Until I hear from Bessie , or see for myself , that you are really trying to behave better , you can not be treated as a good , happy child , like my children . ’ |
| 25 | Provided everybody else pays , the factory will cut back and you can not be prevented from getting the benefits . |
| 26 | Yet if the customer is adamant that you must go and you can not be fitted into another niche where you would have no contact with him , you may be vulnerable to dismissal . |
| 27 | The essence of a club is that it is select and private ; you can not be followed in there . |
| 28 | A As you have had such success in breeding your fish , and raising the fry to a reasonable size , you can not be judged to be doing anything wrong . |
| 29 | Judge Vos told him : ‘ You can not be unleashed on the public because of the damage you do when you take a car , and there is also the danger to life and limb that you present . ’ |
| 30 | You can not be disconnected for a Hire Purchase debt , a Credit Sale Agreement , or a debt for anything other than supply of gas and or electricity . |