Example sentences of "[pron] ca not be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expect so , ’ he said , ‘ we ca n't be more than twenty-five feet up . |
| 2 | ‘ Come on , time to get out of here , there ca n't be long until your bombs go off . ’ |
| 3 | It ca n't be more than three minutes ago . |
| 4 | After starting out a special interest magazine , Skin 2 now looks like a mainstream style mag ( sometimes you feel it ca n't be long before S&M will make it into M&S ) . |
| 5 | ‘ As I said , it ca n't be long before you locate Suzie , and I 'm sure you 'll have more success in persuading her to go home than I would . ’ |
| 6 | It ca n't be long before they cross the Atlantic as the children of the 90s start replacing designer bodies with designer minds . |
| 7 | He ca n't be more than fifty . " |
| 8 | He ca n't be more than 25 years old . |
| 9 | You know , he ca n't be more than twenty-three at the most . ’ |