Example sentences of "it can [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | That there was a pattern for her in Lermontov 's novel is conceivable : but it ca n't be claimed that it fits her with exactitude , or that it provides an explanation of her conduct . |
| 2 | It ca n't be stressed enough that you should know the entire play from which you select your audition piece ; not only that , but have thought carefully about the characters and their inter-relationship . |
| 3 | I say no mine , perhaps the choice of location … he says it ca n't be your fault , you have made love to the most brilliant and beautiful men of your generation , you have slept with the great . |
| 4 | ‘ No , it ca n't be . |
| 5 | It ca n't be . ’ |
| 6 | If that 's a sign of madness , I 've gone completely crazy , but it ca n't be worse than this . |
| 7 | ‘ It ca n't be as bad as all that . ’ |
| 8 | But the main thrust of Olson 's argument is unaffected , and it ca n't be set aside : this great American poet ( and Olson knows that Pound is all of that ) was a Fascist , profoundly , and no amount of talk about his affinities with Whitman will save him for democracy , nor will any attempt to treat his anti-Semitism as an unrelated pathological aberration . |
| 9 | ( Plus I knew one of the kids was trying to escape all the time ) It ca n't be much fun being locked up there It really sounds like a POW story . |
| 10 | ‘ It ca n't be helped , it must be done , ’ he said after they had eaten and rested . |
| 11 | It ca n't be far , I know that , but I du n no the way . |
| 12 | It ca n't be anything . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Well , it ca n't be anything — ’ and again , passionately , ‘ it ca n't be ! |
| 14 | ‘ Well , it ca n't be anything — ’ and again , passionately , ‘ it ca n't be ! |
| 15 | ‘ Stop telling me reasons why it ca n't be done , ’ the Prince thundered , ‘ and get on and find a way . ’ |
| 16 | At least it provides a starting point to the discussion , even if it ca n't be copied . |
| 17 | It ca n't be defined , it just exists . |
| 18 | Although I do n't think it 's impossible that it ca n't be the other way , that two people ca n't grow toward each other . |
| 19 | It ca n't be a question of manners . |
| 20 | I hear that the Ancient Teutons get twice that but it ca n't be true because they lost . |
| 21 | It ca n't be easy playing the lyre , singing , dancing and doing handstands simultaneously in the chariot race , and yes I do think it wise to have an enema the night before . |
| 22 | ‘ This is a technology , ’ says the UK Genetics Forum , ‘ which should be looked at from the point of view that if something goes wrong , it ca n't be put right . |
| 23 | It ca n't be done . ’ |
| 24 | First of all there is the inevitable sense of shock , what psychologists call denial : ‘ This thing has n't happened to me , it ca n't be true . ’ |
| 25 | It ca n't be normal to feel like this . |
| 26 | Thus when someone hears of the death of someone they are close to the reaction is , ‘ But it ca n't be true . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It ca n't be him . ’ |
| 28 | It ca n't be more than three minutes ago . |
| 29 | It ca n't be simpler . |
| 30 | It ca n't be much longer . |