Example sentences of "can not [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ca n't be but fifty or eighty mile from here . |
| 2 | ‘ I ca n't be that until their bodies are found . |
| 3 | It ca n't be that you have no principles . |
| 4 | and there ca n't be that many authorities left that are n't already involved . |
| 5 | No , ca n't be that no do n't worry about that . |
| 6 | You ca n't be than six . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It 's supposed to be dead , but it ca n't be because — look ! the tendon is moving slightly , the muscle 's quivering . |
| 9 | Now that ca n't be because I was that much better at maths because I 'm not I mean |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | and then someone said Barbra Streisand and then someone said she ca n't be cos she 's nice |
| 12 | No it ca n't be cos we 've only just just turned that one over ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In a third part , the objection must be that with respect to confirmed hypotheses as to condition-sets , it can not be that those condition-sets are causal circumstances as conceived . |
| 16 | Though intimidation was not discussed in the case it can not be that B could have avoided the binding nature of the contract by the simple device of counterclaiming for damages for intimidation and it seems therefore that for the purposes of intimidation the plaintiff should be required to show unlawful coercion at least of such a degree as would enable him to avoid a contract . |
| 17 | At the same time , in a quite different direction , the ‘ arts ’ run through into areas of human thought and discourse — values , truths , ideas , observations , reports — where , though the ‘ aesthetic ’ perceptions may be still quite relevant , they can not be and in practice are not taken as wholly defining . |
| 18 | There can not be and there should not be any attempt to open up a party political divide over the importance of further reducing tobacco consumption . |
| 19 | He argues that creativity in advertising can not be as divorced from selling as it is in these awards . |
| 20 | Secondly , therefore , the process of testing can not be as described earlier . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He can not be as dominating in the air as a 6ft.4in goalkeeper . |
| 23 | 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 . |