Example sentences of "can [adv] [be] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The draft for this is almost complete but it ca n't be finalised until the costs of the revised programme have been agreed for each of the participating nations . |
| 2 | The children ca n't be prosecuted because they 're under ten years old . |
| 3 | This finding not only reinforces the review that the engram site has been correctly located , it also strongly suggests that the engram is intracellular — it remains stored in the cell but ca n't be communicated when the neurotransmitter is inhibited . |
| 4 | But they ca n't be rewarded as men can . |
| 5 | His ca n't be traced because he does n't have a licence for it . ’ |
| 6 | Most of them ca n't be played because they 're so fragile and if they were restored they would n't make their original sound . |
| 7 | Helen is looking forward to the day when Jenny can also be treated but this ca n't be done until she stops growing . |
| 8 | Eighteen miles today , and tomorrow , the worst leg of all , twenty-six miles to Cambridge that ca n't be broken because there is nowhere to stop overnight . |
| 9 | ‘ So , provided the next urine test is OK , I see no reason why she ca n't be discharged as well , ’ said Lindsey . |
| 10 | ‘ Nothing that ca n't be changed if you have a scheme that 's worth thinking about . ’ |
| 11 | They ca n't be changed if they are not identified . |
| 12 | Not to sort of well you , you ca n't be blamed because I mean yo , in the innocent you were actually going because of the concert . |
| 13 | 2 of those due to go ca n't be told until they return to school next week . |
| 14 | What he ca n't be saying if he understands the system is , " 1 want to vote effectively both for my first-preference candidate and for my second or any lower preference " . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't see why I ca n't be playing when the season starts in Scotland in September , ’ said Hastings , who needed a four hour operation . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's early June now and I do n't see why I ca n't be playing when the season starts in Scotland in September , ’ said Hastings . |
| 17 | Conversely a limp hand in the wash basin and the inevitable question : ‘ Have you had your holidays yet ? ’ will guarantee you a despair which ca n't be dispelled until your head is safely home and inside a bucket of water . |
| 18 | Always plenty of room I ca n't be bothered cos I 've got to give Foxy his shorts |
| 19 | They have to invent so many for other people they just ca n't be bothered when it comes to themselves . ’ |
| 20 | I mean I like dancing and music but I like to have a chat with , I ca n't , I ca n't be bothered if I ca n't chat properly because you ca n't hear yourself |
| 21 | That actually means something — it 's not frivolous — so consequently it ca n't be classed as , or even thought of as , old fashioned . ’ |
| 22 | Sometimes it just ca n't be helped cos there 's nothing in your price range you know that you like that is n't empty but I would prefer an empty property so that when we decide and then whatever just |
| 23 | It was in the field of cult and religious objects , of decorative and decorated-utilitarian articles , and of what can eventually be distinguished as , in a modern sense , works of art , that reproductive technology became a major cultural mode . |
| 24 | Akehurst was early in understanding the importance of administrative and employment law in international organisations and , although others have carried this work forward , his contribution during the 1960s can properly be regarded as pioneering . |
| 25 | The particular acts found by the judge are we think rather on the borderline of what can properly be regarded as constituting possession , always apart from the consideration of adverse possession . |
| 26 | Sometimes a partner will be recruited on the strength of his professional expertise alone and yet receive a share in the firm 's capital : where such arrangement can properly be regarded as commercial ( and this will usually be the case ) there will be no adverse tax consequences ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
| 27 | An important corollary of the present discussion is that circuit components of centimetre dimensions can properly be regarded as discrete until the frequency gets as high as about 300MHz ( recall discussion of this topic near the beginning of section 4.3 ) . |
| 28 | For the above reasons and those contained in the speech of my noble and learned friend , Lord Templeman , which I have had the privilege of reading in draft , I would allow this appeal on the ground that the courts are entitled to substitute some different protection in place of the privilege against self-incrimination , providing that such protection can properly be considered as adequate protection . |
| 29 | In assessing whether there is likely to be prejudice and if so whether it can properly be described as serious , the following matters should be borne in mind : first , the power of the judge at common law and under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 to regulate the admissibility of evidence ; secondly , the trial process itself , which should ensure that all relevant factual issues arising from delay will be placed before the jury as part of the evidence for their consideration , together with the powers of the judge to give appropriate directions to the jury before they consider their verdict . |
| 30 | In assessing whether there is likely to be prejudice and if so whether it can properly be described as serious , the following matters should be borne in mind : first , the power of the judge at common law and under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 to regulate the admissibility of evidence ; secondly , the trial process itself , which should ensure that all relevant factual issues arising from delay will be placed before the jury as part of the evidence for their consideration , together with the powers of the judge to give appropriate directions to the jury before they consider their verdict . |