Example sentences of "can [adv] [adv] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , now I have listened to their first Phonogram-fuelled '60s Baggle Taggle on vinyl , I discover that I ca n't even be arsed to find out where they live . |
| 2 | It ca n't even be given away , so it ends up being stored at enormous expense on even more land . |
| 3 | Sat along the front of the stage , bored looking girls ca n't even be bothered to turn around and see what all the commotion is about . |
| 4 | And if you think I 'm going to bail Sleet out with the money Francis left me when you ca n't even be bothered to learn the most basic elements of running an estate then you 're mistaken . ’ |
| 5 | give tutorial credence it ca n't just be assumed you can take them out of tutorial and it has stopped tremendously . |
| 6 | So safety is a thing which is ca n't just be said Oh it 's it 's safer to go by train than it is to cross the road . |
| 7 | However it ca n't just be bolted on to the tractor , and Mr Tomlinson had to spend further hours in the workshop matching it to the tractor 's backend and getting the gearing right . |
| 8 | Knowledge and techniques ca n't just be forgotten . |
| 9 | The point is that some things in health services ca n't easily be looked at with quantitative methods alone . |
| 10 | In an ASCII format , documents are displayed in their lowest form on screen and ca n't easily be read . |
| 11 | If I can get out onto the hill for rescues , then that 's good — but that ca n't always be guaranteed with the work commitments you have as a doctor . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm young and handsome and fast and pretty and ca n't possibly be beat , ’ said the young boxer on the TV screen . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm young and handsome and fast and pretty and ca n't possibly be beat , ’ the voice said . |
| 14 | There are always accusations of piracy and copy-catting , though they ca n't usually be substantiated . |
| 15 | As a lawyer , he had learnt that the safest course was inactivity ; if you do n't do things , you ca n't usually be blamed for them . |
| 16 | Other books have been championed for years by obsessed option-owners , like Saul Zaentz 's doomed production of Peter Matthiesen 's At Play In The Fields Of The Lord , and Cronenberg 's Naked Lunch , the latter understanding that cult novels ca n't usually be filmed at all . |
| 17 | Surely you ca n't still be bothered about Adam 's ridiculous gibe about you being brash and brassy ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ They ca n't now be heard to say , ‘ Boo hoo I want to get out of it now ’ , ’ said Mr Prescott . |
| 19 | ‘ But when companies are laying off workers , they ca n't then be seen to donate money to charity . |
| 20 | Sinead O'Connor 's use of a picture of a murdered Guatemalan street child ca n't really be compared to Benetton 's shock-ads-for-profit . |
| 21 | Erm it 's a community isolation because is like mountains around which makes barriers against physical mobility that ca n't really be moved round that easily . |
| 22 | has been considerable , Chairman my one concern which has in fact shared by Mrs as Mr referred in , in his letter is erm how long is this experiment should run for erm how long five point seven the first of three months , although the wording is n't , it is in fact half the recommendation , I would want to er agree with Mrs suggest that this be six months , erm because three months particularly in the winter months ca n't , ca n't really be considered a very thorough experimental period . |
| 23 | The only factor that ca n't really be accounted for is time . |
| 24 | This ca n't really be avoided but can be reduced by letting in as much ventilation as possible . |
| 25 | If they are not reasonably constant , then not only is the model er a poor one , right , within sample but it ca n't really be used for out of sample predictions , because although on average er our coefficient that we estimate it might be nought point five , then the out of sample could well be minus six or something like that . |
| 26 | Now this is very common you do n't know what you 're working with so you ca n't really be expected even if you get the answer if |
| 27 | Ca n't really be forced |
| 28 | But it has always been recognised that , where individuals desire that services of a special kind which , though not within the obligations of a police authority , can most effectively be rendered by them , should be performed by members of the police force , the police authorities may ( to use an expression which is found in the Police Pensions Act 1890 ) ‘ lend ’ the services of constables for that purpose in consideration of payment . |
| 29 | It is within the overall context of national development that regional development can most effectively be addressed and actioned . |
| 30 | The investigation of the sources of these emotions will provide information about how happiness can most effectively be pursued . |