Example sentences of "can not [be] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nothing that ca n't be written off as a momentary aberration between a man and a woman . |
| 2 | Perhaps the European audience is being spared more difficult or anomalous work on the grounds that it ca n't be understood out of context . |
| 3 | I do n't care as long as they know them so that somebody else has got some responsibility , she said I just ca n't be getting away with it and and , and erm being irresponsible . |
| 4 | She 's wounded , too , in one leg , but she ca n't be moved down to Florence until twenty-four hours have passed because she cracked her head when she fell and there could be concussion . ’ |
| 5 | Now if I was a cadre and I received that I think I would be thinking right erm if I really want to be at the forefront of this that 's the policy that I want to promote erm and if the peasants in my area are not demanding this and not achieving this well we , I , I ca n't be seen not to be going it , I 've got ta go with this . |
| 6 | He takes over her life and even her education , continues to sleep with other women and tells the poor girl they ca n't be seen together in public . |
| 7 | Er in terms of contact they will also make a decision giving days and times of contact if it ca n't be worked out between the two of you . |
| 8 | ‘ But all I 'm concerned about at the moment is that we do enough against City to make sure we can go to Wembley at the weekend knowing we ca n't be overtaken again by Leeds on Saturday . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ At least hotels can be rebuilt , dead people ca n't be brought back to life . ’ |
| 10 | They try and tighten it up even more , almost in a subconscious way to control a disaster , and we know that things like chaos and disaster they ca n't be controlled , they ca n't be wrapped up in that way . |
| 11 | Can I make a suggestion rather than re-numbering all those , its going to be quite a long job , is that from what I can see at the moment there is no reason why that ca n't be added on as a last sentence to nine anyway , cause nine says you records the outcome of the enquiry , . |
| 12 | But the court says that deals are only allowed to protect rate payer 's money from fluctuations in interest rates , and ca n't be carried out for trading purposes . |
| 13 | This is also why paint applications do n't have very good text handling , because once the text is on the image , it ca n't be edited again in the normal way , only as an area of colour . |
| 14 | ‘ She ca n't be going off to a big party before the Championship . |
| 15 | By contrast , gas ca n't be burnt alone in a diesel-type compression-ignition engine . |
| 16 | And they ca n't be claimed back on your insurance if it 's a false alarm . |
| 17 | This is all so that we can produce more that we can eat , and yet for some reason the excess ca n't be sold off at reduced prices . |
| 18 | The character ca n't be woken up in any way during this time ! |
| 19 | We read ‘ Glory in the church ’ ; it 's a phrase that ca n't be found elsewhere in the New Testament ; when the Ephesian Christians heard that phrase when the letter was read out , it probably came as a great surprise . |
| 20 | It ca n't be passed on without the consent of the victim . |
| 21 | Staff at Slimbridge say their 7,000 waterfowl are unlikely to be affected by the outbreak , which ca n't be passed on from bird to bird . |
| 22 | Traffic officers claim the new gun ca n't be picked up by speeding motorists who use radar detectors to avoid being caught . |
| 23 | But electors ca n't be ordered around in the way Labour Party members can , and they have made pretty clear they did n't like the result ( neither do Labour Party members , which is why they have left in droves ) . |
| 24 | Worse still it is the superstition that the Holy Mass or a sermon or a prayer can not be locked up on a roll of magnetic tape without being desecrated in some way . |
| 25 | If previous experience is any guide , politicians can not be relied on to lead that debate . |
| 26 | An element is a pure substance which can not be split up into any simpler pure substance . |
| 27 | Environmental protection can not be tacked on to the end of industrial development . |
| 28 | Finally , existence can not be treated simply as a property of concepts either . |
| 29 | Sadder occasions occur ambulance charters need to be carried out , typically to Southampton with a patient who can not be treated satisfactorily in the islands . |
| 30 | The McKinsey-GE matrix also recognizes that in many businesses investment decisions can not be made simply upon information about market growth and the current share held . |