Example sentences of "is [pron] [pron] can [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 If there is something you can not do , you can ask a friend to help or pay someone to do it for you .
2 This is something I can not understand : the wonder of sadness , the glory of pain .
3 And yet , ’ said Philip , shivering as the bleak little wind from Severn ruffled his grey tonsure , ‘ I swear he has received very tolerable usage there , better than I dared expect , and why he keeps such a particular hatred against the lord Isambard is something I can not fathom .
4 For them , crack is wrong , because the pain is generalised and life , not physical pain , is what they can not face .
5 Nevertheless do not tell me of it , even to confirm me ; for it is what we can not analyse or arrange , any more than the rich simplicity of childhood .
6 ‘ All you want to know is what I can not tell you : whether her recent illness might in some way explain her disappearance .
7 ‘ That is what I can not understand , ’ the general had turned in upon himself again , hardly aware of the presence of his guests any more .
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