Example sentences of "it can [adv] [be] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ca n't be more than three minutes ago . |
| 2 | After starting out a special interest magazine , Skin 2 now looks like a mainstream style mag ( sometimes you feel it ca n't be long before S&M will make it into M&S ) . |
| 3 | ‘ As I said , it ca n't be long before you locate Suzie , and I 'm sure you 'll have more success in persuading her to go home than I would . ’ |
| 4 | It ca n't be long before they cross the Atlantic as the children of the 90s start replacing designer bodies with designer minds . |
| 5 | It does not commend itself on the basis of observable experience in the everyday world , and it can not be easily and rationally justified . |
| 6 | In so far as the plaintiffs are seeking to recover from the third defendant money which he has obtained for his own benefit or for the benefit of companies which are , in effect , his alter ego , I can see that the third party would have an overwhelming argument that it can not be just and equitable to require him to contribute to whatever the third defendant is ordered to pay to the plaintiffs . |
| 7 | Surely it can not be long before the Football League discovers what is festering in the Multivite Vegeburger/Singletons Valve Replacement League sewer . |
| 8 | If during the period of habituation the touch of the glass rod is coupled with some other stimulus — say a bright light — the original response at once returns in full , so it can not be merely because of exhaustion that it disappeared in the first place . |
| 9 | It can not be so if the managers are drawn from a different pool , which can happen if emoluments in the private sector drift too far away from those in the public sector . |
| 10 | The distance of the cluster is believed to be over 9000 light-years ; it contains several thousands of stars , and it can not be less than 30 light-years in diameter . |