Example sentences of "be [verb] [pers pn] can not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amateur theatre flourishes almost everywhere , and when you 're beginning it can not be stressed too strongly that it is desirable to obtain some actual stage experience before jumping into the big pool of drama school , or even summer school . |
| 2 | Now if we 're saying you can not ascertain this surplus , then why is the employer allowed to take money out ? |
| 3 | PRINCESS DIANA has been told she can not see her sons until next Tuesday . |
| 4 | Mandale Harrier Shaun Purcell , runner-up in the Cleveland Schools Championships , has been told he can not compete at Bristol next month because he missed the annual School InterCounties with a flu virus . |
| 5 | A LABOUR front-bencher has been told he can not marry his bride in the House of Commons crypt because they are both Roman Catholic . |
| 6 | Ironically Langbaurgh council , whose residents have the highest incidence of asthma in Cleveland , has been told it can not have special funding to contribute to the project . |
| 7 | They are clearly set out and if they are flouted we can not accept it . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Under no circumstances will any of those competitors who have been chosen be told they can not go . ’ |
| 9 | Benefits are permanent , as once fat cells are removed they can not return . |
| 10 | A secret postal ballot of parents then determines the fate of the school , and once a decision to opt out of local authority control has been taken it can not be reversed at a later date , although there is , of course , nothing to stop a new government introducing a legislation to repeal this provision . |
| 11 | ‘ How they were done I can not imagine … ‘ |
| 12 | No planks for the flooring yet , and if it is raining we can not be on the roof . |
| 13 | This will be true whatever the value of γ 1 ; therefore whatever value of γ 1 is selected it can not make the distinction between aggregate and relative demand shocks any less important . |
| 14 | The child 's cognisant acts have the character of perceptions : if an act is done it can not be undone ( ‘ reversed ’ in the jargon ) and so there is no going back and taking another perspective on the question or practical problem . |
| 15 | The child asks for something and is told she can not have it . |
| 16 | ‘ Until that decision is known we can not begin to draw up an engineering schedule but we should have all works completed by the end of 1995 , ’ said an NGC spokesman . |
| 17 | Once your case is concluded you can not , except in very rare instances , return to seek further compensation . |
| 18 | The best reply to both conclusions consists in providing what it is maintained we can not have . |
| 19 | The most common reaction when hearing of the sudden death of a relative or friend is to say it can not be true ! |
| 20 | establish the principle that when your office door is open you are willing to accept ‘ drop in callers ’ but when it is shut you can not be disturbed except for a real emergency |
| 21 | Christians are supposed to forgive , but what if say it 's the mother of somebody who had a child that 's been murdered or if somebody has been raped you can not say that they should forgive you cos they were a Christian . |
| 22 | If they are burned they can not regenerate , so fire is the greatest ally of the Troll fighter . |
| 23 | If he can not deduce that one or other party was to blame he can not send them both away empty-handed but must find that both contributed ( as happened in Baker v Market Harborough Industrial Co-operative Society , Wallace v Richards ( Leicester ) Ltd [ 1953 ] 1 WLR 1472 . |