Example sentences of "be [pron] [pron] can [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reflections are something you can not see in the flames of central heating . |
| 2 | If there is something you can not do , you can ask a friend to help or pay someone to do it for you . |
| 3 | This is something I can not understand : the wonder of sadness , the glory of pain . |
| 4 | And yet , ’ said Philip , shivering as the bleak little wind from Severn ruffled his grey tonsure , ‘ I swear he has received very tolerable usage there , better than I dared expect , and why he keeps such a particular hatred against the lord Isambard is something I can not fathom . |
| 5 | But it 's something we can not afford not to be involved in . |
| 6 | For them , crack is wrong , because the pain is generalised and life , not physical pain , is what they can not face . |
| 7 | Nevertheless do not tell me of it , even to confirm me ; for it is what we can not analyse or arrange , any more than the rich simplicity of childhood . |
| 8 | ‘ All you want to know is what I can not tell you : whether her recent illness might in some way explain her disappearance . |
| 9 | ‘ That is what I can not understand , ’ the general had turned in upon himself again , hardly aware of the presence of his guests any more . |