Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | If you are sorry that you can not be of assistance , then you should say so . |
| 6 | THE CAN YOU CAN NOT BE WITHOUT , CATMINT AND THE QUINTESSENTIAL ROSE . |
| 7 | You can not be without money . |
| 8 | Tell him there has been a change of plan , that you can not be with him tonight . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Please , you can not be in such a rush . |
| 10 | No planks for the flooring yet , and if it is raining we can not be on the roof . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We can not be like Red Indians , sitting in a circle and acting as one man. , ‘ Do you think we have lost that forever ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ At the labour costs we incur today , we can not be in business long term . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Warton replies : ‘ It can not be of any use to the dead themselves . |
| 18 | It can not be in any sense hierarchical . |
| 19 | Although this leads to productive links with other agencies and services , it can not be in the best interests of the students . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |