Example sentences of "can [adv] [be] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Something that 's going to take your attention , because while you 're thinking about your hobby you ca n't be thinking about work .
2 I ca n't be hamstrung by sentiment .
3 ‘ Spirituality ca n't be imposed from above'
4 And this is one call up that ca n't be ruined by injury !
5 Europe 's grain harvest looks certain to hit the record books , so does the surplus grain mountain which ca n't be moved on world markets
6 It ca n't be beaten on breadth of features — it 's a quality product with excellent support .
7 Unfortunately , for the really creative user , all this requires programming knowledge and ca n't be created on paper first and loaded in as a completed work .
8 The concept ca n't be created on paper first and then loaded into the computer as a completed work .
9 ‘ This kind of weight reduction ca n't be met by plastic 's rivals — and it all adds up to a reduction in waste at the beginning of the cycle , which is where the environmental action should start ! ’
10 Waiting lists ca n't be seen as bus queues
11 Oxfordshire jockey Richard Dunwoody has a few thousand to go before he can ever catch Carson … that ca n't be done in jump racing of course … but the new champion is off to a flying start to the new season … two winners on saturday he won the first at Newton Abbot this afternoon
12 Because it , in a job that ca n't be done in isolation , to complete this procedure or procedures , we may have been plural , needs er , consultation with er , certainly with Simon 's division in quite a substantial way .
13 ‘ People ca n't be put at risk like this .
14 There are problems that just ca n't be solved at school or even at LEA levels .
15 And a large number of cellular users consider themselves trapped by ‘ unfair ’ contracts that ca n't be changed without penalty .
16 He ca n't be identified for security reasons .
17 Both have raced and they work with love , ambition and perseverance — that ca n't be bought with money .
18 Service rating : No firm commitment , but the Taff teacher 's husband ca n't be faulted for attitude .
19 ‘ I honestly ca n't be bothered to bullshit , ’ he says .
20 I ca n't be bothered with gym or PE .
21 Well it ca n't be used for fox hunting now .
22 Tha that 's one thing that ca n't be taken into consideration .
23 Having got to this stage , with all the equipment wired carefully into the cable tidy , the tank can slowly be filled with water .
24 When you think how CCW and the WTB have collaborated to agree a set of Principles for Tourism in National Parks , we should try to remain hopeful that a similar joint approach can eventually be agreed for golf courses .
25 Moreover , if it is right here that the tax was repaid as a matter of extra-statutory discretion , and interest from the date of Nolan J. 's order was paid on the same basis , it is not clear to me how a review of the discretionary refusal to pay interest which was not due in law can properly be examined by way of judicial review .
26 Despite plans for market integration in Latin America and between the United States , Mexico and Canada , it is only in relation to the European Community that integration can properly be discussed at present .
27 The Minister will know that , contrary to the Government 's views about linking business with the environment — we all agree that coal can successfully be converted to coke — for some reason the Coalite works in Bolsover seems to be polluting the whole environment .
28 As we have seen , for some Foucault can apparently be dismissed with ease as merely the philosopher of discontinuity , a description which is hardly adequate ; for others , criticism takes the form that he simply relativizes history , but this is really no better , for history is itself a mode of demonstrating the relativity , temporariness , and temporality of phenomena .
29 Although it would be possible to pursue the question of history in terms of such analyses of the forms of historicity , such an enquiry would take us on a very different path from that prompted by our original question , namely if poststructuralism can apparently be faulted by reference to a history which it neglects , where in Marxism can this history be found ?
30 This case can perhaps be explained on policy grounds as the plaintiff was a rescuer and the courts do not wish to deter rescue .
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