Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] can not be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the answer , I really can not be fucked . |
| 2 | I really can not be doing with Algeria |
| 3 | I really can not be bothered . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | The nosodes are invaluable for clearing up inherited predispositions and acquired disease toxins which often can not be treated in any other way . |
| 6 | Such techniques provide maintenance engineers with extremely valuable data/information under actual flight conditions/loads which frequently can not be reproduced on the ground . |
| 7 | But there are certain topics which simply can not be studied by this method . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ You really can not be trusted , can you ? ’ |
| 15 | A quite surprising number belong to people who simply can not be bothered . |
| 16 | If this is all she thinks , she surely can not be considered Christian . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I am often asked what makes a good day for bolting rabbits , bearing in mind that on some occasions they will readily leave the ground regardless of surface conditions , whereas at other times — often under what appear to be favourable conditions — they just can not be budged . |
| 19 | They thus can not be occupied . |
| 20 | The strands are so fine that they usually can not be detected by cetacean sonar , unlike the older type of multifilament cotton nets . |
| 21 | They also can not be compressed even under quite high pressures . |
| 22 | Whatever is claimed of these traditional philosophical mysteries , including the claim that they enter into mental events , they surely can not be regarded as parts of them . |
| 23 | They certainly can not be turned into the stated goal of an academic programme . |
| 24 | However subjective the ‘ standard of living adequate for health and wellbeing ’ , it obviously can not be achieved if population is outstripping subsistence . |
| 25 | It obviously can not be justified . |
| 26 | The initial hypothesis suggested above about baptism being more a social than a religious ceremony is so general and broad that it obviously can not be tested without being broken down into its constituent parts . |
| 27 | It is in neither 's interest for the contract to be kept in suspense indefinitely in circumstances where it clearly can not be performed . |
| 28 | The Origin of the Family , Private Property and the State , 1884 Formen is the most detailed discussion of pre-capitalist society in Marx 's mature work and it really can not be understood except as a part of the background for the more fully completed works Marx was either planning or did wrote , especially Capital . |
| 29 | While the double-blind trial is well suited to testing of conventional drugs it often can not be applied to complementary therapies , for instance , the acupuncturist must establish a close link with the patient during treatment , and the therapist must know which points he is needling and possibly modify them as the patient 's responses change . |
| 30 | Jumping was again the problem when he ran an appalling race at Ascot subsequently , and he simply can not be relied upon to reproduce his Boxing Day effort . |