Example sentences of "ca not [adv] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The point is that some things in health services ca n't easily be looked at with quantitative methods alone . |
| 2 | ‘ I ca n't always be looking after all your property . ’ |
| 3 | because of a girl , I really think he 's loyal in that way , in that sense , because they are very close they have a laugh and I know when we 're with them they 're always like seem to be impressing everyone but I 'm sure when they 're together they have like , you know , human conversations , they must do , they ca n't always be talking about screwing and you know , which girls have got big tits and all that |
| 4 | If I can get out onto the hill for rescues , then that 's good — but that ca n't always be guaranteed with the work commitments you have as a doctor . |
| 5 | As a lawyer , he had learnt that the safest course was inactivity ; if you do n't do things , you ca n't usually be blamed for them . |
| 6 | Other books have been championed for years by obsessed option-owners , like Saul Zaentz 's doomed production of Peter Matthiesen 's At Play In The Fields Of The Lord , and Cronenberg 's Naked Lunch , the latter understanding that cult novels ca n't usually be filmed at all . |
| 7 | Surely you ca n't still be bothered about Adam 's ridiculous gibe about you being brash and brassy ? ’ |
| 8 | Even Parr ca n't still be smiling after that ! |
| 9 | Sinead O'Connor 's use of a picture of a murdered Guatemalan street child ca n't really be compared to Benetton 's shock-ads-for-profit . |
| 10 | Yeah you ca n't really be listening to what I 'm saying cos you cos I have n't finished yet . |
| 11 | Erm it 's a community isolation because is like mountains around which makes barriers against physical mobility that ca n't really be moved round that easily . |
| 12 | The only factor that ca n't really be accounted for is time . |
| 13 | If they are not reasonably constant , then not only is the model er a poor one , right , within sample but it ca n't really be used for out of sample predictions , because although on average er our coefficient that we estimate it might be nought point five , then the out of sample could well be minus six or something like that . |