Example sentences of "can not [be] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's almost nothing either of us can say that ca n't be taken the wrong way , with a bit of imagination . |
| 2 | The Strathclyde university report stated : ’ The idea of a mature tobacco market ’ — that means a market which can not expand any further ’ can not be supported the key group for the tobacco industry is young smokers . |
| 3 | For example , it has been pointed out that one person can not be asked the same question twice , the second time he is not the same person because he has already been asked the question once . |
| 4 | It can not be proved the virgin birth happened . |
| 5 | Of course the parallel between ontogeny and phylogeny can not be carried the whole way through — prehistoric human beings did not look like newborn babies — but there are various reasons why we might expect the early stages of embryonic development to have some relation to the early stages of our evolution . |