Example sentences of "can not [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 | He is in particular concerned to rebut the argument of anti-Darwinists who claim that if mutations are merely ‘ random ’ they can not be biased towards improvement . |
| 24 | The truth of this belief can not be tested at present . |
| 25 | It is for the court to decide the weight which should be given to statements which are not made on oath and can not be tested by cross-examination . |
| 26 | Marriages can not be ended at will or whim . |
| 27 | This inquiry can not be conducted in isolation from the general developments that have occurred in connection with judicial review of executive authority , an area in which the courts have been extremely active . |
| 28 | We had one particularly bad sexual harassment case which came out of West Belfast a couple of years ago , which I think was a landmark in the recognition by the courts that women can not be treated with indignity and in the way that that girl was treated . |
| 29 | Newman argued that as a commitment in the light of evidence that can not be treated as proof , religious belief is like rather than unlike other forms of belief . |
| 30 | Many other writers working in Southeast Asia have drawn attention to the fact that particular ethno-linguistic groups can not be treated in isolation , but must be regarded as forming part of a larger social system . |