Example sentences of "can [adv] [be] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ca n't be than six . |
| 2 | I 'm never late for things , I try really hard to be late , but I just ca n't be because we were told off so much about it . |
| 3 | It 's supposed to be dead , but it ca n't be because — look ! the tendon is moving slightly , the muscle 's quivering . |
| 4 | Now that ca n't be because I was that much better at maths because I 'm not I mean |
| 5 | I said what do you mean sh oh I did n't mean it like that I meant she ca n't be because I like her . |
| 6 | and then someone said Barbra Streisand and then someone said she ca n't be cos she 's nice |
| 7 | No it ca n't be cos we 've only just just turned that one over ! |
| 8 | Some of you may be pissed off that the game was n't on R5 , but you ca n't be as pissed off as me . |
| 9 | Kohlberg 's dilemmas are not about real people — they ca n't be if the aim of the research is to discover objective principles of justice . |
| 10 | The choice can only be whether animals benefit from our practices or are harmed by them . |
| 11 | But such systems can only be as good as those who use them in an original research context , and I have a genuine concern that an over-abundance of records will lead to confusion , or to the adoption of narrow and blinkered research strategies . |
| 12 | It seems as though the world is going on , everybody rushing about their daily tasks , but surely this can only be because they have not yet heard the news or else they too would feel emotionally paralysed . |
| 13 | You find yourself doing the strangest things that can only be because you are no longer capable of doing the simplest tasks . |
| 14 | And all of this can only be because you are very wicked indeed . |
| 15 | If Tories are not flung to the lions in Blaenau , it can only be because lions are rare in the one-time mining valleys of South Wales . |
| 16 | This brings us on to the second of Dworkin 's grounds for excluding such background policy issues from the jurisdiction of the courts , for if no one has a right to any particular form of decision-making process — whether a right to a hearing itself , a right to cross-examine witnesses or to be given reasons for a decision -this can only be because such a right can not be derived from the master principle of equal concern and respect . |
| 17 | If it seems that things could be finally settled by deciding whether a foetus is a person , this can only be because ‘ person ’ is used to ascribe a moral status rather than merely to describe . |
| 18 | Finally , if a comparison is possible at all , this can only be because ultimately we have non-comparative knowledge of the two things compared . |
| 19 | But if you do , even though the evidence seems stacked against me , it can only be because you love me too , for that 's the only thing that could overcome a mistrust as deeply rooted as yours . ’ |
| 20 | " This can only be because operators think that levels of toxic waste imports will go on increasing " . |
| 21 | He argues that creativity in advertising can not be as divorced from selling as it is in these awards . |
| 22 | Secondly , therefore , the process of testing can not be as described earlier . |
| 23 | As a result the later Chapters of this book explore some of the these areas ; they can not be as focussed on the specifically procedural aspects of prosecution and trial . |
| 24 | He can not be as dominating in the air as a 6ft.4in goalkeeper . |
| 25 | It is fairly universally accepted that Chinese is not related to any of the four other languages , so the similarity can not be because these words are cognate . |
| 26 | Lewis 's performance was a reminder of how compelling heavyweight boxing can still be when it dares to step out from behind the curtain of cynical and protective matchmaking ; when it dares to put on a career life-or-death fight between two men with the pedigree to be king . |