Example sentences of "be [adj] [pers pn] can [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I think we 'll update not so much is over public authorities would probably take your advice , but I 'm thinking of people who are not public authorities who might in a way suffer , that your advice may cause them some expense , and they might choose to delay it , and well I am guilty we ca n't afford to do that this year , so it never gets done . |
| 2 | If you catch toxoplasmosis while you are pregnant it can seriously affect the health of your unborn baby . |
| 3 | Although while we are alive we can never return to Eden , we can benefit from the ever-flowing waters of Eden . |
| 4 | Dearest Mother and Dad I am sorry I can not write letter to-night will write to-morrow night . |
| 5 | ‘ I am afraid I can not comment at all , ’ said Sir Donald Hall , deputy chairman of GEC-Marconi . |
| 6 | I am afraid I can not bear just yet to go back to Baldersdale . |
| 7 | ‘ I am afraid I can not say any more . |
| 8 | He said after his release : ‘ I am delighted I can now start a new phase in my life . ’ |
| 9 | The idea of boredom is not very distressing to us because if we are bored we can usually do something about it , and so can a horse in the wild . |
| 10 | The letter ended by wishing me luck but adding the proviso , ‘ If you , having thought about the matter very deeply , are convinced you can emotionally handle the situation . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ If they are , I am convinced it can only mean Zambia Crevecoeur is dead , and all evidence of hir physical existence destroyed . ’ |
| 12 | They 're young and you 're still maintaining them when you 're alive you ca n't pretend that they do n't exist when the will comes along . |
| 13 | WE 'RE SORRY we ca n't return any of your Gallery pictures , but not half as sorry as we are for inflicting this smirking , high-voiced , tubby toff with less personality than a plasticine man on you . |
| 14 | For £15,000 pounds , there 'll be no frills and they 're afraid they ca n't guarantee the weather , either . |
| 15 | and when you 're unemployed you ca n't afford to go thirty miles |
| 16 | Lady , you 're lucky you ca n't read my mind . ’ |
| 17 | You 're sure I ca n't drive you to the airport ? ’ |
| 18 | When you 're blind you ca n't help it . |
| 19 | But in addition once they 're open they can also inactivate to the extent that they 're no longer respon responsive to the stimulus that opens them , to the voltage stimulus which opens them . |
| 20 | Our spirit is fine and I am confident we can soon improve our position . ’ |
| 21 | Sorry , my my my other point is about about Ryedale , and and and its its and its its unde its relationship to Southern Ryedale , and erm Mr Smith said that erm as far as Ryedale Council are concerned they ca n't identify any more land within Southern Ryedale , well of course they would say that because was there position at the Southern Ryedale plan , but the fact of the matter is that there was a great dispute at the York greenbelt Southern Ryedale plan enquiry , revol resolving around the issue of what were the bits of the greenbelt which made up the historic character and thereby what were you left with that potentially could be developed , albeit it might be reserved as white land in the first place , but could potentially be developed , and a great deal of this land on the disputed side lay in Southern Ryedale , that in that in fact there was a view around the table not only sh not only shared by by the developers side , but erm that large parts of Osbaldwick and Huntingdon did n't fall within the definition of greenbelt as as set out by by the County Council in their N Y Two Two document , now that matter clearly has got to be something left to the Inspector and the Greenbelt Inquiry , but I think it 's fair to point out that there is actually a difference of view , so it 's not an absolute position , that you ca n't identify more land within within Southern Ryedale , and indeed , erm , not that I want to raise the Local Government Commission 's head again , but of course the Local Government Commission is proposing that York be a unitary authority expanded , and once Yor , if York does become a unitary authority expanded then some of these areas will fall within their area , and they may have a different view than er the Ryedale current Ryedale district council does , and therefore I think it is a little unsafe to take just at pure se pure face value , that there is no more land within Southern Ryedale that could be developed . |
| 22 | Oh , and by the way , I 'm sorry we ca n't make it tomorrow . |
| 23 | I 'm sorry we ca n't finish this one up . |
| 24 | against the advertising say I 'm sorry we ca n't do it . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm sorry we ca n't help you dear , ’ she said . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm sorry we ca n't ask you to come and see us again , but we live very quietly . ’ |
| 27 | so I said but I 'm not disappointed but she said just listen to what I 've got to say , she said , erm , because anybody else that 's failed we 've just said I 'm sorry we ca n't have you , but she said with you , we all feel that you 've got so much to offer she said I 'm gon na offer you a relief post which means that you can go into other people 's ho er other homes , all around , all different hospitals if somebody 's short , they can call on you and I said could it be a full time job , will it give me enough money to say that I 'm working ? |
| 28 | I 'm sorry you ca n't stand the pace , Merrill , not to mention surprised . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm sorry you ca n't pursue your investigation any further , Chief Inspector , ’ concluded Tait . |
| 30 | " I 'm sorry you ca n't come with me to the village feast ; I should have been delighted to take you — but then the geese might come to harm . |