Example sentences of "can [adv] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ca n't be a good idea to allow licences to go to the highest bidder . |
| 2 | You ca n't be a good lover , a good artist or a good politician without this capacity ( you can get away with it , but that 's not what I mean ) . |
| 3 | Of course this ca n't be a first choice for Lohengrin , but those who have any interest in the history of the opera 's performance will find it a consistently absorbing experience . |
| 4 | There must be something in me that remembers her , Ruth thought ; it ca n't be a total blank . |
| 5 | I know you now , and you ca n't be a stranger ever again . |
| 6 | When I say I 've never , in my life , sold a telephone number or refused to help a fellow journalist , he says it is ‘ union policy ’ , and that I ‘ ca n't be a real journalist ’ if I find this surprising . |
| 7 | It ca n't be a real number since its square is negative . |
| 8 | ‘ Surely he ca n't be a credible suspect ? ’ |
| 9 | You ca n't be a military attaché at any embassy in a place like Lisbon without people knowing . ’ |
| 10 | It 's gon na be longer , so it ca n't be a tenth of it . |
| 11 | I ca n't be a proper husband to you . |
| 12 | I said , you ca n't be a proper prisoner if you do n't try to escape and now do n't let's talk about it — agreed ? |
| 13 | I 'm directing his energy and he 's bringing out the humour in me , at last , which ca n't be a bad thing . ’ |
| 14 | They are waymarking routes which are well graded and not too difficult — an increase in facilities will take people off the roads which ca n't be a bad thing . |
| 15 | That ca n't be a bad start . |
| 16 | All this in a choice of four languages , English , French , German and Spanish , so will teach your child the basic understanding of foreign languages which ca n't be a bad thing , as every day , we grow closer to our European neighbours . |
| 17 | Which ca n't be a bad thing . |
| 18 | And I suppose developing the muscles that keep you from dropping over it 's pro ca n't be , ca n't be a bad thing . |
| 19 | We ca n't be a premium American car line this year and go after the boy racer the next , ’ he explains . |
| 20 | However sympathetic or kind one wants to be towards a family , he ca n't be a social worker . |
| 21 | Indeed , it is because it ca n't be a literary point for Joyce or for anyone from Ireland who 's business is words , because language forever figures urgent and personal issues of belonging , of debt , of loss , of freedom and of dependence , because it is and does all this . |
| 22 | There ca n't be a dirtier one than this because they 've started already . |
| 23 | Indeed , one of the most serious deficiencies in much classroom practice is the total lack of perception that writing can rarely be a once-off activity and , at the same time , a successful one . |
| 24 | Even if we accept the enforceability criterion for the existence of a law this can only be a necessary requirement of law if ‘ enforceability ’ is taken in a weak sense to mean that the rules in question are by and large adhered to , which need not , of course , be the result of threats . |
| 25 | The case against environmental lead is very strong , but an argument that contains such exaggeration and error can only be a weak one . |
| 26 | The committees can only be a temporary problem-solving device , bet the situations which create the problems are not temporary . |
| 27 | Conditions ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) alone clearly are not enough and there can only be a limited number of ways of thinking of conditions which give the same results as ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) . |
| 28 | It was for them that Paul Rotha spoke when he declared : ‘ The dialogue film , at its best , can only be a poor substitute for the stage . ’ |
| 29 | So when the police declare ( as they do ) that they are non-political institution , this can only be a partial truth . |
| 30 | Thus , due to the sheer complexity of spatial data and the operations available , this can only be a partial solution to the general problem of user interaction with a GIS ( Gould 1989 ) . |