Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] can [not/n't] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | we ca n't go to the stage well I mean I ca n't be bothered |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Civil Aviation authority say it ca n't be used here . |
| 5 | The Civil Aviation authority say it ca n't be used here . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Arthur Price chairman John Price says : ‘ 13/0 certainly looks as bright and as cheerful as 18/8 but after it has been in use for a short while it goes dull and then grey and , after a year or so , stains and pitmarks develop which can not be removed . ’ |
| 9 | But particularly in a public sector context , where appeals to the public interest could be assumed to be more common , profound questions remain which can not be resolved by terse definitions . |
| 10 | I mean you know I ca n't be bothered trying to so I do n't think I will go . |
| 11 | I know I ca n't be bothered . |
| 12 | Leaders influence those aspects of their subordinates ' interests , energies and drive which can not be harnessed by simple organisation structure , job definitions , or more formal management techniques . |
| 13 | Once set they can not be altered . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | People like us ca n't be repaired as easily as people like you . ’ |
| 17 | The more complicated feel they can not be contained ‘ in such a small room ’ and then start ‘ spying through the window ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Gallagher was found guilty of careless driving , but his insurers , the Norwich Union , insist he ca n't be held liable for what happened . |
| 20 | This three-sided relief , and a second , the ‘ Boston Throne ’ , of the same form and character but different and inferior style , present unsolved problems of use , interpretation and indeed date which can not be discussed here . |
| 21 | This is not to say that a series like Follow Me can not be used in the classroom , but it is organised in a different way from materials like Let's Watch or Video English which were made specifically for classroom use . |
| 22 | See you ca n't be trusted . |
| 23 | See you ca n't be trusted , you 're a you get quite upset when you get accused and Pauly quite rightly accuses you . |
| 24 | Because , no matter what we learn we can not be educated into the Kingdom . |
| 25 | The first is the absence of deep gaps in barrier reefs and atolls , whereas if subsidence has been long continued , there should be deep gaps present , because once the gaps are deeper than the depth at which reef-building corals occur they can not be filled by coral growth . |