Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] can [not/n't] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this is a programm devoted to ‘ bass ’ Cantatas , and I 'm afraid I can not be so enthusiastic about the soloist Peter Kooy , who is , quite frankly , rather inadequate in the celebrated Cantata ‘ Ich habe genug ’ . |
| 2 | If a person is searched in public he can not be required to remove anything other than his coat , jacket or gloves . |
| 3 | The Edinburgh Review ( Oct. 1807 ) was openly abusive : ‘ If the printing of such trash as this be not felt as an insult on the public taste , we are afraid it can not be insulted . ’ |
| 4 | Butler sometimes talks of a passion as directed at one 's ‘ having ’ its object , but it seems more satisfactory to say that particular passions are directed at occurrences , and that the basic one can not be directed ; t the occurrence of pleasure for oneself since this always stems from having something occur one wished to do so . |
| 5 | ‘ But then I feel sure we can not be talking about the same woman , Mr McKillop . |
| 6 | If you use the latter make sure they can not be got at by children , wild birds or pets . |
| 7 | PAMELA : [ aside ] Sure he can not be so bad , sure he can not . |
| 8 | POLICE are racing against time to find five stolen canisters of rodent poison so deadly it can not be handled without breathing apparatus . |
| 9 | This based on the deeply entrenched conviction that if it looks naughty it must be very fattening , while if it looks innocent or healthy it can not be . |
| 10 | So , if something is extra-sensory it can not be perceived . |
| 11 | If balance is important it can not be limited to public television . |
| 12 | These eggs are so small they can not be seen with the naked eye . |
| 13 | He thinks it plainly better to insist that when a statute is deeply unclear it can not be the source of as-if legal rights at all , that the right rule is whichever rule is best for the future . |
| 14 | They also heard the chairman of the STUC energy committee , Harry McLevy , spell out the grounds for continued investment , arguing that the case for nuclear power is so big it can not be ignored and must be incorporated into any energy policy for Scotland. , |
| 15 | This argument views culture as something accidental and static which can not be analysed . |
| 16 | The topmost foliage is taller than me and the growth is so dense I can not be seen from the lawn as I dig into the muddy trench which forms an oasis round the stem . |
| 17 | The arts enable us to assert ideas and judgments which we may recognize collectively to be true which can not be proved in other ways , through empirical experiment , for instance . |
| 18 | More by at least two millennia and although the historical development of the Utopian myth is highly significant it can not be examined here . |