Example sentences of "it can [not/n't] [vb infin] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can not have been easy for an ordinand or a curate to stand up to contemptuous persiflage about his religion from one of the ablest minds of the generation who happened to be his own brother . |
| 2 | It can not have been easy , all these years , and who am I to criticise , to look askance , I who have been lucky , who have only myself to please , whose time is free . |
| 3 | Yet often it can not have been the case that a recalcitrant trustee remained in possession of the property entrusted to him . |
| 4 | It can not have been easy for his wife to have Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu as in-laws . ) |
| 5 | This was an enlightened decision , but it can not have been easy given the high level of unemployment in the rural west , and the need to find more material resources . |
| 6 | It can not have been easy for either of them . |
| 7 | It can not have been only in relation to land that £40 had a special significance . |
| 8 | The victim had then chased the boy and caught him , before realising that he had been shot in the arm , which once more suggests that it can not have been a terribly powerful weapon . |
| 9 | It can not have been later than A.D. 36 , because Pilate , in that year , was recalled to Rome . |
| 10 | But however frustrated he was , however jealous of his younger brother 's reputation as a successful soldier , it can not have been an easy decision . |
| 11 | The loss of their lands was a blow not just to episcopal prestige and income but also to episcopal management and the pastoral care of a diocese ; it can not have been reassuring to any bishop to see how often temporalities were at the risk of malicious accusation or expedient suspicion . |
| 12 | Also , the Euboian cleruchy may actually and ironically have accelerated the revolt it was designed to prevent — because cleruchiea had a garrison function ; but if the cleruchy was installed as early as 450 it can not have been an immediate grievance . |
| 13 | It can not have been ostensible authority . |
| 14 | It can not have been ostensible authority . |
| 15 | If it was merely voidable vis-à-vis the Hammonds , it can not have been void as against the building society . |
| 16 | Mr. Jeffreys contended that on a fair reading of the subsection it can not have been the intention that every one of an owner 's rights had to be assumed by the alleged thief before an appropriation was proved and that essential ingredient of the offence of theft established . |
| 17 | Compare it with a late kouros ( fig. 72 ) , a larger work set on a grave in central Attica , of one Aristodikos , and beautifully preserved through having been taken down and buried when it can not have been standing very long , perhaps to avoid desecration by the Persian invader . |
| 18 | From its easily-reached little summit not much of a view — therefore , it can not have been a hill-fort : in the tradition of Maiden Castle , or the great Heuneberg in Danubian Germany , this is not even a bungalow . |
| 19 | Gary Kemp 's portrayal of the homosexual psychopath Ronnie is utterly chilling ; we are not shown what he does in bed , but it can not have been much fun for his boyfriend . |
| 20 | It can not have been easy for a man in his fifties to start afresh as an instrument-maker in London . |
| 21 | It can not have been easy , as at this time photography was beginning to have a profound impact upon this branch of the arts , being more fashionable , cheaper , and offering the promise of greater veracity . |
| 22 | It can not have been long , however , before the painting began to undergo a series of striking changes . |
| 23 | That it should require a lid painting at all suggests that it can not have been an English instrument or a Ruckers , and , if its shape is drawn as carefully as the presence of an accompanying scale would indicate , the rather blunt double curve of the bentside would suggest one of the Hamburg makers . |
| 24 | Ali Cemali , who had in the years between 888 and 891 moved on to other posts , was the first appointee to the new medrese and , though his salary is not specified , the course of his career to this point suggests that it can not have been less than 50 akce a day . |