Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb mod] not [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the answer , I really can not be fucked . |
| 2 | I really can not be bothered . |
| 3 | Oh it was when we were gon na go to the cinema and I phoned Marion and I said no , I really can not be bothered , it 's just pouring down with rain , had |
| 4 | Behind this exchange — which perhaps need not be taken too seriously — there lies the fear that a victory for the Labour party in a general election would constitute a repudiation of the King 's actions in August , To the extent that the National Government was formed through the agency of the King , a repudiation of the National Government could be conceived of as a repudiation of the King . |
| 5 | This interface will function optically as a convex mirror , and light incident on it — which normally would not be perceived because it would fall on the blind spot , will be reflected back into the eye . |
| 6 | And today is the hundredth anniversary of Erwin Panofsky 's birth , which really could not be ignored . |
| 7 | The nosodes are invaluable for clearing up inherited predispositions and acquired disease toxins which often can not be treated in any other way . |
| 8 | Such techniques provide maintenance engineers with extremely valuable data/information under actual flight conditions/loads which frequently can not be reproduced on the ground . |
| 9 | But there are certain topics which simply can not be studied by this method . |
| 10 | The theoretical advance demanded further physical evidence which simply could not be collected with the technology then available to researchers . |
| 11 | Most controversially he announced sweeping cuts in commodity subsidies which he said were unavoidable as government subsidies on wheat and petrol had previously amounted to £S1,000 million and £S7,700 million respectively , which simply could not be sustained . |
| 12 | There are many houses which simply could not be brought up to standard … |
| 13 | At present there are people who choose to display a green learner plate for a period of time after they have passed their test , but this is only optional and may lead to other coloured learner plates being sold which then may not be taken seriously . |
| 14 | A minor of any age who is ‘ Gillick competent ’ in the context of particular treatment has a right to consent to that treatment which again can not be overridden by those with parental responsibility , but can be overridden by the court . |
| 15 | Development of a beach club and boat park complex , which again will not be used by the majority of villagers , now threatens to re-route a public right of way . |
| 16 | They were officially produced , and thus often give information about official events which otherwise would not be known ; the designs and legends they bear provide an unequalled number of images and inscriptions from lost societies . |
| 17 | Buildings — and not just historic ones — represent energy , labour and materials , which either can not be replaced or can only be replaced at enormous cost . |
| 18 | People do give support to their kin but they do so in a way which is patchy , possibly idiosyncratic , and which certainly can not be predicted simply from knowing how they are related to each other . |
| 19 | Such indemnities , transferring liabilities incurred to third parties , will be particularly useful in cases where a contracting party may incur liability to a person not party to the contract , which therefore can not be excluded by contract : for instance , a manufacturer might require a distributor or retailer to indemnify it against tortious product liability claims by consumers injured by the product . |
| 20 | This is especially likely to be the case with short essays and exam answers , where you clearly can not be expected to be " original " in the sense in which a researcher or expert in the field might be expected to be . |
| 21 | Privately , lenders admit that of customers in arrears for more than six months , there are more than 150,000 who probably can not be saved . |
| 22 | Mary said she really could not be bothered . |
| 23 | ‘ You really can not be trusted , can you ? ’ |
| 24 | A quite surprising number belong to people who simply can not be bothered . |
| 25 | If this is all she thinks , she surely can not be considered Christian . |
| 26 | There are examples of officers whose promotion was clearly desired by their superiors who yet could not be advanced . |
| 27 | The actual operations in Burma are undertaken by the State-run ‘ Tourist Burma ’ — over whom we have no control — and we therefore can not be held liable or accept claims for damages resulting from changes , diversions , delays or cuts . |
| 28 | Later that night , drinking champagne at the first night party , he gave me his usual disclaimers ; how it was all an illusion , everything was an illusion , all life was an illusion , and how he , Sir Tom , was the master of illusion , but how his dear children were real because they alone could not be spawned from the imagination . |
| 29 | The hurts of the last years run so deep they just could not be solved with AT&T involved . |
| 30 | Release to college was , it was said , out of the question : they just could not be spared . |