Example sentences of "can [adv] be [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , if Sister 's sanctioned it , it ca n't be to Melrose , where that dishy registrar 's often to be seen . ’ |
| 2 | It has to be at Downes 's place : Kemp has n't got a room in college , and it ca n't be at Kemp 's place because his wife is a house-bound invalid . |
| 3 | ‘ You ca n't be in Sardinia and not try a prickly pear . ’ |
| 4 | Well it ca n't be in Moorford because the only thing that |
| 5 | Mansell ca n't be in Portugal and Japan at the same time , ’ he said . |
| 6 | " Well , whoever you 're selling for , I 'm sorry to disappoint you , but these tiles ca n't be by de Morgan . |
| 7 | But if the asserted proposition is about Ruritania , then surely it must be false , for in that case the subject term has a reference , i.e. there is something for the proposition to be true about If , on the other hand , the proposition is true , then by the same token it can not be about Ruritania , for Ruritania does not exist ; it is fiction . |
| 8 | Before flying to the conclusion that certain things are ‘ against the rules ’ ( heaven save us , procedures are already erected into RULES ! ) let the neophyte consider that a man can not be in New York and Pekin at the same moment . |
| 9 | quite right , I can easily be at Dave 's Saturday , no problem , I know Dave |
| 10 | ‘ I have known such a life … the days seemed to be longer , the air sweeter than it can ever be in England … |