Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb mod] 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 | Another contributor , however , says that ‘ Maharishi lays so much stress on the sound value of the mantra , and its vibratory effect , that without it , you just would not be practising TM . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Mary said she really could not be bothered . |
| 8 | ‘ You really can not be trusted , can you ? ’ |
| 9 | If this is all she thinks , she surely can not be considered Christian . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The hurts of the last years run so deep they just could not be solved with AT&T involved . |
| 13 | Release to college was , it was said , out of the question : they just could not be spared . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They thus can not be occupied . |
| 16 | The strands are so fine that they usually can not be detected by cetacean sonar , unlike the older type of multifilament cotton nets . |
| 17 | They also may not be prepared for a long walk to a phone . |
| 18 | They also can not be compressed even under quite high pressures . |
| 19 | They probably would not be treated . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They certainly can not be turned into the stated goal of an academic programme . |
| 22 | However subjective the ‘ standard of living adequate for health and wellbeing ’ , it obviously can not be achieved if population is outstripping subsistence . |
| 23 | It obviously can not be justified . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In the second place , Mr. Glick for the revenue pointed out that in the State Trials report , 20 St.Tr. 239 , it appeared that the Crown did not suggest that if the duty was not payable in law it nevertheless could not be recovered . |
| 26 | It also should not be forgotten that Hastings has toured New Zealand three times in recent years — for the World Cup in 1987 , with Scotland in 1990 and the World XV last year — an experience which Carling can not match . |
| 27 | news on ronny johnsen is that he probably will not be offered a contract with spurs — he was tried out as a central marking defender ( the style most teams play — each central defender marks one attacker ) and as such he was no succes — norway play what we call a zone defence ; ‘ marking ’ their zones instead of players — journalists from Holland were laughing as Norway 's coach Drillo Olsen was asked ‘ who is to mark van Basten ? ’ before our home game against Holland and he answered ‘ No one is ’ — they did not laugh afterwards ( we won 2–1 ) . |
| 28 | It is in neither 's interest for the contract to be kept in suspense indefinitely in circumstances where it clearly can not be performed . |
| 29 | Unless you or your club subscribe to the amount required , it probably will not be raised , the defence for the Act will not be mounted and many miles of river will be lost . |
| 30 | He looked up as Corbett entered , smiled and half rose before slumping back into the seat again as if he really could not be bothered . |