Example sentences of "it can [adv] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I do n't think it 's impossible that it ca n't be the other way , that two people ca n't grow toward each other . |
| 2 | ‘ It ca n't be the only difference , ’ I said . |
| 3 | So it ca n't be the old Winter Garden crop . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It ca n't be the old man , ’ Kimberley said . |
| 5 | So it ca n't be the same as in churches even if it stays in the profit ? |
| 6 | Last year 's was no la it ca n't be the same one then cos last year 's was absolutely terrible , the one I went to with Right Said Fred was amazing I think someone else did go to that , Sue-Anna or somebody ? |
| 7 | Mhm , oh no , it ca n't be the twelfth of November |
| 8 | Sorry , I 'm reading the wrong dates here That 's right , it ca n't be the twelfth , I must have meant the fourteenth . |
| 9 | It can not be the ultimate value because it manifestly ignores so many other values such as those of justice , as well as ignoring the truth-claims which religions inevitably have to take seriously . |
| 10 | It can not be the political solution , ’ Ruehe said . |
| 11 | It can not be the cheap medals and worthless trophies they hope to accumulate and the chances of making big money are so tiny as to make it untenable as a career . |
| 12 | When asked why he thought this was so , without examining the tree he said , ‘ It can not be the same on both sides ’ . |
| 13 | But it can not be the whole story . |
| 14 | Although this might sometimes occur in discourse , and van Dijk 's own data reveal the complexity of racial discourse , it can not be the full story . |
| 15 | But it is only a short-term change , so although it may be necessary if long-term memory is to occur , it can not be the biochemical representation of that memory . |
| 16 | On this view , however , it can not be the phonological system in which priming occurs , because both reading aloud and answering definitions by an oral response use the phonological system ( since both culminate in the subject saying a word ) ; yet these two activities do not prime each other . |