Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] can [not/n't] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further dimension to the externality problem concerns goods which yield external benefits from which people enjoying them can not be excluded . |
| 2 | we ca n't go to the stage well I mean I ca n't be bothered |
| 3 | But when you first started when you 're not quite sure what 's happening you ca n't be expected to be perfect the first time you have a go at something can you . |
| 4 | They charge you an extra quid for booking with a credit card , and say they ca n't be held responsible if the postman wobs the ticket in transit . |
| 5 | The offer would seem at first sight to be an extremely generous one , but those who make it know it can not be accepted . |
| 6 | A DIY breathalyser will soon be able to tell drivers if they are over the limit — but police say it ca n't be trusted . |
| 7 | The Civil Aviation authority say it ca n't be used here . |
| 8 | The Civil Aviation authority say it ca n't be used here . |
| 9 | ‘ While people are cautious about a lot of developments in Europe , rightly so , and while they are looking for British advantage , rightly so , they realise it can not be done from the back of the class . |
| 10 | ‘ The hospital say he ca n't be moved for two months yet , ’ said Annunziata , picking up the tray again , ‘ but then il dottore will arrange everything . |
| 11 | She always says I ca n't be bothered to play the piano , I ca n't play that and I have to make some shitty little tune up |
| 12 | Says he ca n't be bothered ferreting through negligées . |
| 13 | The one hundred and fifty million pound development would have created up to seven hundred jobs.But Coca Cola says it ca n't be built yet because of the recession . |
| 14 | The child 's cognisant acts have the character of perceptions : if an act is done it can not be undone ( ‘ reversed ’ in the jargon ) and so there is no going back and taking another perspective on the question or practical problem . |
| 15 | If jade is not polished it can not be made worth anything . |
| 16 | The present was only twenty-four guineas , which we received immediately on leaving the King 's apartment , but the graciousness with which both His Majesty the King and Her Majesty the Queen received us can not be described . |
| 17 | I mean you know I ca n't be bothered trying to so I do n't think I will go . |
| 18 | I know I ca n't be bothered . |
| 19 | Once set they can not be altered . |
| 20 | I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea . |
| 21 | There is no evidence for this , which is probably why the quality of their argument can fall so low , with Shamir saying of perhaps the most influential and long-standing of PLO ‘ moderates ’ , Khalid Hassan , that ‘ when you see his face you know he can not be trusted . ’ |
| 22 | Amateur theatre flourishes almost everywhere , and when you 're beginning it can not be stressed too strongly that it is desirable to obtain some actual stage experience before jumping into the big pool of drama school , or even summer school . |
| 23 | ‘ After anxious consideration I have reached the conclusion that whatever Reg. v. Morris did decide it can not be regarded as having overruled the very plain decision in Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 that appropriation can occur even if the owner consents and that Reg. v. Morris itself makes it plain that it is no defence to say that the property passed under a voidable contract . |
| 24 | ( f ) Parker LJ stated : " whatever R v Morris did decide it can not be regarded as having overruled the very plain decision in Lawrence 's case that appropriation can occur even if the owner consents and … |
| 25 | People like us ca n't be repaired as easily as people like you . ’ |
| 26 | The more complicated feel they can not be contained ‘ in such a small room ’ and then start ‘ spying through the window ’ . |
| 27 | Hall is right to say that current Labour and Liberal parties can not take on the task of realignment , but would be equally correct in saying they ca n't be by-passed . |
| 28 | Unlike the other tricks it can not be picked up quickly . |
| 29 | As far as that sort of thing goes they ca n't be faulted . |
| 30 | 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 . |