Example sentences of "can [adv] be [vb pp] [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Real concrete problems , such as the fact that Germany is the biggest trading nation in Europe , 50% more populous than France or Britain , that she holds half of the Soviet Union 's debt and has lent more money in government-guaranteed credit to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union , can not be made to disappear with words . |
| 2 | The vendor can not be forced to negotiate with the purchaser . |
| 3 | Benefit can not be claimed to assist with paying the remaining 20% . |
| 4 | Emotionally troubled people can not be expected to deal with their emotions until they are able to understand what those emotions are , how they have arisen , and what can be done to overcome them . |
| 5 | People who are mentally handicapped can not be expected to cope with many aspects of this AL independently . |
| 6 | As we have already observed ( see ( 35 ) ) , the verb see , in its ordinary uses , can not be expected to occur with an adverbal adjective , but this does appear to be the interpretation needed for ( 41 ) which may be considered substandard but is apparently possible in current British English : ( 41 ) even if the scheme does fail , I 'll see you comfortable Much more often , the idiomaticity works the other way , so that a set of lexical items that could fit the structure of ( 21 ) , with appropriate values , seem to give unacceptable sentences , as in ( 42 ) : ( 42 ) Eva played her opponent exhausted Wendy wiped the floor moist |
| 7 | Under section 15(2) ( a ) it is no defence that the bulk can easily be made to correspond with the sample . |
| 8 | The hypotheses considered in the preceding section of this chapter ( that pre-exposure allows the formation of a stimulus — no event association , and so on ) still remain viable provided it is allowed that the associations they envisage can still be assumed to interfere with retrieval . |
| 9 | Tenor tree was only felled in the last ten years — and the stump can still be seen planted with pansies . |
| 10 | Small as they are , they can safely be released to shoal with most adult species . |