Example sentences of "it can [adv] [be] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | which it ca n't be right cos , I suppose in a way it 's none of our business but it is I mean if it gets to it , it puts our company in financial difficulties it means it 's jobs on the line int it that sort of thing |
| 2 | It ca n't be true cos |
| 3 | I hear that the Ancient Teutons get twice that but it ca n't be true because they lost . |
| 4 | For example , it can not be right that the Government should retain as offices private houses and blocks of flats while homeless families are dossed down in imperfectly converted workhouses , or forced to ‘ squat ’ in Nissen huts . |
| 5 | ‘ It can not be right that a tenant in Middlesbrough , where housing is cheap , pays more than a tenant in Camden , where costs are very much higher , where well-paid jobs are much easier to come by , and there is such a concentration of commercial facilities . ’ |
| 6 | It seems to be the very purest form of the art , even though it can not be other than a minor branch of it . |
| 7 | In these societies it can not be accidental that as revolt and protest against traditional values and restraints have grown , so too have the means of external coercion represented by police forces , government agencies , legislation , taxation and a generalized bureaucratic regulation of just about every important aspect of the citizen 's life . |
| 8 | In the unconscious , money and gold are universally understood to be symbols of faeces , and it can not be accidental that analysis of individual delusions of persecution shows that the persecuting object is usually the child 's phantasied idea of the paternal phallus as the retained and hardened faecal mass in its bowel . |
| 9 | Again , it is not totally inappropriate that this sort of overlap should exist since RMI must build upon the data that exist within the service ; it can not be separate and unrelated to that which currently exists . |
| 10 | ‘ In Rockingham Forest , ’ they said , ‘ where the Crown has little property left , where a considerable part of the Land is already in Tillage or pasture , and the Country pretty fully inhabited , it can not be desirable that those ( Forest ) Laws should be continued ’ : their ‘ Restraints and Burthens … by impeding its Improvement , must be a loss to the Public as well as to the Proprietors ’ . |
| 11 | Whatever the true origins of grammatical gender , it can not be true that it has nothing to do with sex . |
| 12 | In fact people will often say that it can not be true because they would undoubtedly have known if it was going to happen . |
| 13 | When a sentence expresses an attitude or a wish it can not be true or false in this sense , for wishes and attitudes can not be true or false as beliefs can . |
| 14 | There has to be a freshness about teaching — it can not be pre-arranged and pre-packaged , for that almost always loses the attention of pupils , even if not also of the teacher . |
| 15 | It can also be minimal or extreme . |
| 16 | But it can also be weak and impoverished . |
| 17 | Doubt can have deep integrity , but it can also be lazy and dishonest . |
| 18 | It can also be relieved or controlled by drugs and in severe cases , surgery . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , it can also be true that previously-held prejudices can be reinforced . |
| 20 | You 'll probably have warm temperatures and good sunbathing weather , but it can also be chilly and windy . |
| 21 | It can also be funny and it can do you a power of good . |
| 22 | It can really be helpful if it 's complicated and detailed information , notice the difference between complicated and complex . |
| 23 | Yet it can sometimes be influential although , more often than not , it is the personal advocacy which brings about the conversion . |
| 24 | It can hardly be coincidental that these remarkable evolutionary events , taking place within only a few million years , correspond so closely in time with an episode of exceptional igneous and urogenic activity ( Larsen & Pitman , 1972 ) , the rapid disintegration of Pangaea ( Hallam , 1980 ) and the biggest marine transgression since the mid-Palaeozoic , apparently produced either by a phase of accelerated sea-floor spreading or by a dramatic increase in the length of the ocean ridge system . |
| 25 | And it can hardly be coincidental that James is referred to as ‘ Zadok ’ . |
| 26 | Whilst a mirror can allow a clear view of a painted ceiling , it can nonetheless be disorientating and disquieting . |