Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] can not [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hers is a vulnerable yet crucial role as negotiator between difference : typically she is one who refuses to outcast herself from the black community and family , because aware of its value and importance , yet by virtue of that same tact subjected within them to sexual discrimination : ‘ we straddle the fence that says we can not be uplifters of the race and lesbians at the same time ’ ( ‘ Talking about It ’ , 54 ) . |
| 2 | Aleks ( Russia ) , a Moscow-based security company , is marketing a computer database of business partners to avoid : rather suspiciously launched on April 1 , the service — Conduit — has information on what it calls ‘ untrustworthy commercial partners ’ and the database is apparently updated by aggrieved entrepreneurs and firms that have been victims of fraud or deceit and are seeking redress ( or revenge ) — canny Aleks says it can not be responsible for the data contained on the database ; users must pay 5,000 roubles as an initial fee , plus another 100 roubles a month and 20 roubles for each reference . |
| 3 | Unlike the other tricks it can not be picked up quickly . |
| 4 | She obviously feels it can not be resolved without going to court . ’ |
| 5 | Lewis insists he can not be suborned by men in sharp suits with silver tongues and evil intentions . |
| 6 | In order to use the monitor however , the speaker must have sufficient time to mentally prepare the utterance ( usually this means it can not be used in conversation ) , must be concentrating on the form of the message itself and must have complete knowledge of the rule , or rules , which have to be brought into use . |
| 7 | The giant who knows she can not be helped in any way . |
| 8 | The splash of the water against the wheel and the splatter of it across the windscreen recalled to Harry 's mind the sound of falling water that had drawn him in a dream up the stairs of the Villa ton Navarkhon : a dream of statues made flesh , of messages concealed in images , of meetings both expected and located , amounting to what all logic suggests they can not be : rendezvous to which one has already unconsciously agreed . |
| 9 | His dream is only an illusion and he knows it can not be realised . |
| 10 | This change in Pip 's attitude and behaviour and perhaps his realisation that he is not a true gentleman is his final change from contentment , to discontentment and snobbery to finally semi-contentment though I think he knows he can not be fully content with reaching some sort of conclusion with Estella as she still has his heart . |