Example sentences of "[pron] can [not/n't] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm sorry , but I can not be at your beck and call all the time , my dear . |
| 2 | His warning should put the importance of conviction in faith beyond all question : ‘ Bear in mind , then , that when you face death or persecution , I can not be with you , or you with me . |
| 3 | A woman I know has given me the name of a midwife who will come and otherwise I shall have to engage a nurse for the shortest time possible since I can not be without assistance when my time comes . |
| 4 | Surely I can not be like the old murmuring Israelites , to long after the onions and garlic of Egypt when they had suffered there such heavy bondage ? |
| 5 | This in my view , is a tremendous tribute to everybody in this hall and the many thousand who can not be with us today . |
| 6 | If you are sorry that you can not be of assistance , then you should say so . |
| 7 | THE CAN YOU CAN NOT BE WITHOUT , CATMINT AND THE QUINTESSENTIAL ROSE . |
| 8 | You can not be without money . |
| 9 | Tell him there has been a change of plan , that you can not be with him tonight . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Please , you can not be in such a rush . |
| 11 | No planks for the flooring yet , and if it is raining we can not be on the roof . |
| 12 | Unfortunately their ideas have not been tested out a great deal in other areas of London or the rest of the country , so we can not be at all sure whether the findings they claim are appropriate for application to the whole of our society are in fact so . |
| 13 | We can not be like Red Indians , sitting in a circle and acting as one man. , ‘ Do you think we have lost that forever ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ At the labour costs we incur today , we can not be in business long term . ’ |
| 15 | Indeed John is so enthusiastic that one can not be with him without catching some of his zeal in the cause , and I can not regret our coming , though looking anxiously forward to our return . |
| 16 | It is sufficient to contravene this regulation where the patch is more than a quarter of the breadth of the tread , because there can not be at least three-quarters of good tread around the whole circumference of the tyre in such a case . |
| 17 | The concerns of Scott J were echoed by Harman J in Systems Reliability Holdings Plc v Smith [ 1990 ] IRLR 377 where the judge concluded ( in a case where he was concerned with an express restriction on the use and disclosure of , in particular the knowledge acquired by the defendant during his employment of the ability to modify an old computer by a small addition so as to make a new product of significant commercial value ) that the controversial part of Neill LJ 's judgment did not bind him to hold that there can not be in an express restrictive of covenant any restriction on information held by an ex-employee which is not a trade secret or something similar . |
| 18 | It can not be without significance that Ealhmund , slain by Eardwulf 's men in 800 , was buried at Derby and venerated as a saint in Mercia . |
| 19 | If democracy is about government by the people for the people , then it can not be about giving a bunch of politicians a blank cheque to govern us every five years . |
| 20 | But if the asserted proposition is about Ruritania , then surely it must be false , for in that case the subject term has a reference , i.e. there is something for the proposition to be true about If , on the other hand , the proposition is true , then by the same token it can not be about Ruritania , for Ruritania does not exist ; it is fiction . |
| 21 | Warton replies : ‘ It can not be of any use to the dead themselves . |
| 22 | It can not be in any sense hierarchical . |
| 23 | Although this leads to productive links with other agencies and services , it can not be in the best interests of the students . |
| 24 | So long as the Crown maintains armed forces for the defence of the realm , it can not be in its interest that any part of them should be immobilised . |
| 25 | True enough , we have only fragments of his history ; but it can not be by chance that while the Greek side of his tale is full of internal conflicts , the story of Italy is miraculously free of them . |
| 26 | The domestic arrangements of an elderly bachelor like myself can not be of much interest to anyone . |