Example sentences of "ca not be [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When you 're surfing big Waimea , you ca n't be thinking about anything — except for the moment . |
| 2 | One can think of a number of cases which are coming before the courts where there 's been a lot of publicity and I 'm sure that the legal teams involved in those cases will be studying this judgement er and will be considering whether or not those principles ca n't be applied to their cases . |
| 3 | She used to frequent fashion parties but now says she ‘ ca n't be dealing with it ’ . |
| 4 | You ca n't be looking after her . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , that ca n't be said of you ! ’ |
| 6 | I thought you were getting yourself into trouble there again , but you tell me he ca n't be listening to you . |
| 7 | Unfortunately as we saw earlier with the housing discussions , we are very much a pint pot as the analogy was used and that a quart just ca n't be fitted into it . |
| 8 | The precautionary principle suggests that , as the future damage done by pollution is often more costly than the extra expense of avoiding it in the first place and in any case it is often unacceptable , even if a money cost ca n't be put on it , then prevention is better than cure . |
| 9 | The number of sets can be altered , along with whether points can or ca n't be won on your opponents ' serve . |
| 10 | Now remember they 're not they ca n't be counted as your boss |
| 11 | ‘ What you do n't know ca n't be forced from you , sweet Alix . |
| 12 | There was ‘ the moment of truth ’ and ‘ it ca n't be happening to me … ’ feeling . |
| 13 | This ca n't be happening to me , Kate would never get herself into this sort of situation . |
| 14 | It ca n't be happening to me . |
| 15 | ‘ They are children on the brink , at the end of their tether , and we ca n't be saying to them come back in 50 weeks . ’ |
| 16 | It does n't bind you , and it ca n't be held against you . |
| 17 | To you I 'm just someone who ca n't be left in your house alone . ’ |
| 18 | he 's a real old woman , urgh , I ca n't be doing with him |
| 19 | I ca n't be doing with it . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Because you ca n't be doing with it . ’ |
| 21 | Yeah but I ca n't be doing with it |
| 22 | One could argue that this inverted logic is acceptable because art ca n't be divorced from its conditions of production and consumption . |
| 23 | I do n't usa , I mean , I ca n't be bothered with them . |
| 24 | But I 've become scruffier and scruffier , and although I do keep myself immaculately clean , I ca n't be bothered about my clothes any more . |
| 25 | It works with the EC1 pattern controller and ca n't be used on its own . |
| 26 | Er so I mean that c because er I mean they the steel balls and steel rollers go into the bin I mean they ca n't be used for anything . |
| 27 | It ca n't be used for anything else I would n't of thought |
| 28 | During the first year , if you encounter a problem with your CompuAdd 200 , 300 , or 400 Series desktop or deskside system which ca n't be resolved by our Telephone Technical Support Staff , we provide On-Site Service in most parts of the country within the next business day . |
| 29 | The phone charges ca n't be drawn on your expenses . |