Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can normally be contacted on either or , or at the following address : . |
| 2 | By being productive , I can also be a full partner in establishing the structure of our society . ’ |
| 3 | It 's a relief , because now I can just be myself . |
| 4 | quite right , I can easily be at Dave 's Saturday , no problem , I know Dave |
| 5 | If you 've got some new material on him that you want to share with us , I 'm more than happy to arrange another lecture for you later in the term , but frankly , as you 've apparently given the same lecture on him for the past ten years , I can hardly be accused of interfering with academic freedom , can I ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I can hardly be expected to have a great deal of time for gardening , ’ she said , ‘ I am forced to pay out money for gardening help . ’ |
| 7 | If I go to a match in Europe , I come back to a stack of videos and I can hardly be bothered . |
| 8 | My belief that I am in pain may be justified , perhaps , but I can hardly be said to base it on reasons , conclusive or otherwise . |
| 9 | Inevitably , er that has not been entirely acceded to , and indeed to some extent er I can hardly be surprised as events move on during the course of the enquiry . |
| 10 | ‘ I can hardly be blamed if the production was cancelled . ’ |
| 11 | I can hardly be expected to know that , can I ? |
| 12 | And I can hardly be expected to leave my three-year-old brother here in the care of a strange man . ’ |
| 13 | I can hardly be held accountable for the vagaries of a junior research assistant ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ And of course , ’ he continued blandly to the committee , ‘ if I can then be of assistance , I should be delighted . ’ |
| 15 | Now if ‘ I can only be known by description , and the only description which is true of it is ‘ that group of mental states , caused by the same living body ’ of which the envy and my judgement are members ' , it follows that anyone who does not describe ‘ I ’ in that way , will not know what ‘ I ’ means , and so will mean nothing when he says ‘ I was envious yesterday ’ . |
| 16 | I can only be happy if you are happy . |
| 17 | At least I can only be thankful you did n't think of pawning them . |
| 18 | I can only be me , ’ she whispered . |
| 19 | Sorry I can only be done , I said , mm , would I understand , and I said yes . |
| 20 | I mean acting is n't a cure for cancer or anything , but it is something I can potentially be very good at so I try and do my best , but my narrow-minded qualities do tend to come through on film sometimes . |
| 21 | In this case I can always be blamed . ’ |
| 22 | well I do n't mind too much because I can erm , I can always be getting on with erm , the , the erm judgment on the , on the , the other issues , erm er |
| 23 | For the first time ever film has become something real for me , and that 's why I go to see it , I want to get right inside it , so that I can really be alive . ’ |
| 24 | I know I can still be a good asset to any club . ’ |
| 25 | I have exerted myself to be as charming as I can be perhaps you will reassure me , Therese , that I can still be charming when I try ? ’ |
| 26 | Wherever , whatever I am , I can never be thrown away . |
| 27 | I can never be grateful enough to them for the sacrifice they made to keep me at school , when even ten shillings a week would have relieved the pressure on the food bill . |
| 28 | It was a most fruitful involvement and I can never be grateful enough for what I learned about the long history of Burma and the Buddhist culture which was woven into the life of the people . |
| 29 | ‘ But as you are , I can never be more than a friend to you . ’ |
| 30 | I can never be this … this dream woman whom you 've invented for yourself , nor live as you would want me to . |