Example sentences of "ca [adv] be [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nothing that ca n't be written off as a momentary aberration between a man and a woman . |
| 2 | Leading lights of the service sector , headed by Racal , could produce results that go some way towards alleviating the gloomy economic prospects again this week , even if Friday 's poor inflation figure ca n't be glossed over . |
| 3 | Perhaps the European audience is being spared more difficult or anomalous work on the grounds that it ca n't be understood out of context . |
| 4 | She 's wounded , too , in one leg , but she ca n't be moved down to Florence until twenty-four hours have passed because she cracked her head when she fell and there could be concussion . ’ |
| 5 | At the moment nuclear power stations ca n't be turned up and down to meet fluctuations and demand , and the fluctuation from the morning and afternoon peak demand to the middle of the night trough in demand is at least a factor of two to one , but nuclear power stations can not be turned up and down to match that . |
| 6 | With regard to nuclear electricity , however , if we have nuclear electricity , which ca n't be turned down conveniently , then electric cars mostly would be sitting in garages overnight recharging , and that is when the natural trough in consumption of electricity occurs and therefore the use of electric cars could help to smooth the demand for electricity . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm afraid that ca n't be ruled out . ’ |
| 8 | Now Norwich are back in the hunt and ca n't be ruled out . ’ |
| 9 | The brewery says that compulsory redundancies ca n't be ruled out . |
| 10 | What the management has to learn is that we ca n't be mucked about . ’ |
| 11 | Drive direction can be changed but the ratchet ca n't be locked out : operation was positive but fiddly . |
| 12 | If a two-car transport system ca n't be set up , a double traverse should not be too taxing , leaving the car at the starting point village of Rhydd Ddu on the A4085 . |
| 13 | But there it is : poor Willy left his intellect spattered across a dry-stone wall in the Cotswolds and , like Humpty Dumpty , ca n't be put back together again . |
| 14 | we 've heard from from Professor Lock there are some economic development projects which because of their size or their importance or their locational requirements just ca n't be accommodated in and around the main settlements of the county . |
| 15 | because they scan on ultra violet light and as one our P C's found out to his cost , he ruined a hundred and fifty pounds worth of compact disc cos he got rather carried away with and of course , it ca n't be cleaned off ! |
| 16 | Er in terms of contact they will also make a decision giving days and times of contact if it ca n't be worked out between the two of you . |
| 17 | ‘ At least hotels can be rebuilt , dead people ca n't be brought back to life . ’ |
| 18 | They try and tighten it up even more , almost in a subconscious way to control a disaster , and we know that things like chaos and disaster they ca n't be controlled , they ca n't be wrapped up in that way . |
| 19 | Can I make a suggestion rather than re-numbering all those , its going to be quite a long job , is that from what I can see at the moment there is no reason why that ca n't be added on as a last sentence to nine anyway , cause nine says you records the outcome of the enquiry , . |
| 20 | But the court says that deals are only allowed to protect rate payer 's money from fluctuations in interest rates , and ca n't be carried out for trading purposes . |
| 21 | It typically presents the graphic designer with the formidable task of squeezing quarts into pint pots : a lengthy , formal statement that ca n't be edited down ; legally required fine-print detail and tables of crucial figures that may or may not be felicitously depicted as graphs , pie-charts or bar-charts of one sort or another . |
| 22 | It would be exaggerating to say that the basic capabilities of the electronic spreadsheet have reached the point where they ca n't be improved on . |
| 23 | Ca n't be left out can she ? |
| 24 | And they ca n't be claimed back on your insurance if it 's a false alarm . |
| 25 | This is all so that we can produce more that we can eat , and yet for some reason the excess ca n't be sold off at reduced prices . |
| 26 | We suppose that 's a rule in our minds and that explains our judgments about for example and proform substitution and so on that 's so we define the notion of a constituent plus label it with brackets , and then we make certain predictions about operations that can or ca n't be performed on . |
| 27 | The character ca n't be woken up in any way during this time ! |
| 28 | So this caravan ca n't be rented out until it 's sorted out , like ? |
| 29 | Staff at Slimbridge say their 7,000 waterfowl are unlikely to be affected by the outbreak , which ca n't be passed on from bird to bird . |
| 30 | But now the information is stored on computer , it ca n't be passed on . |