Example sentences of "can [adv] be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean the pound in ca n't be worth the |
| 2 | Point , they ca n't be under the affluence when they sign the consent form or . |
| 3 | You ca n't be for the audition , said Malcolm . |
| 4 | We are to have larger leagues next season and in the long run that ca n't be for the good of the game in Wales . |
| 5 | It ca n't be for the money . |
| 6 | I I 'm not against I ca n't be against the right of a c of a member of parliament to withhold their vote from their government . |
| 7 | Even if you ca n't be in the team , your enthusiasm is commendable . |
| 8 | And I thought , if a man has a handkerchief like that his heart ca n't be in the war . |
| 9 | Frank is still just 21 and why a very talented young player ca n't be in the clubs future plans i ca n't understand … |
| 10 | No , it 's a ca n't be in the garden , can he . |
| 11 | Such a positive-sum game must be contrasted with a zero-sum game in which the game to some can only be at the expense of others . |
| 12 | A positive interaction with these characteristics can only be to the benefit of artists and their followers alike . |
| 13 | Since the alteration of the law on homosexual acts between consenting adults , there has been a startling increase in the number of male patients who are prepared to talk freely about their homosexuality , and this can only be to the good , as they do appear to have a considerably higher chance of acquiring certain of the sexually transmitted conditions . |
| 14 | Membership of an organisation necessitates voluntary restrictions upon the sovereign powers of States which can only be to the extent accepted by the members through the express or implied terms of the treaty . |
| 15 | the application has to be made to a quarterly meeting of the board ( s.5(6) ) , and the transfer effected can only be to the person who during the currency of the licence has become the Owner or occupier or the new tenant of the premises to which the certificate relates . |
| 16 | The Bill disregards the statutory role of local authorities with regard to impounded water and that can only be to the detriment of local people . |
| 17 | Ultimately we are campaigning to be allowed to be ourselves , with all out differences and similarities , and such an aim can only be to the advantage of us all . |
| 18 | ‘ Throughout the summer , I understand , you are hosting a number of national and international sailing competitions this can only be to the good of Dwyfor and , indeed , Wales . ’ |
| 19 | That teachers — young , middle-aged , and those near retirement — can be asked to express how they really feel about curriculum developments can only be for the good . |
| 20 | If he is liable to the plaintiffs at all it can only be on the basis of professional negligence . |
| 21 | ‘ At least the French are doing their best to kill the whole stupid thing off for good , ’ the heroine remarks ; and when her lover solemnly tells her that modern fiction can only be about the difficulty of writing fiction , she asks why writers bother to put their names on title-pages . |
| 22 | So clueless and misguided are these sorry types — so lacking in insight , intent and , bloody hell , a sense of humour — that if a great comedy show ever makes it to TV List magazine it can only be DESPITE the pony-tails whose job it is to shepherd these things to a laff-hungry public . |
| 23 | If the Law Commission avoids creating similar pitfalls for medical treatment , it can only be in the mentally incapacitated patient 's best interests . |
| 24 | He meant that the deepest and profoundest truth , the truth that ultimately matters and is in the end really worth grasping , can not be of the sort that can be contemplated and appropriated in an attitude of serene detachment . |
| 25 | No planks for the flooring yet , and if it is raining we can not be on the roof . |
| 26 | In Fig. 9–7(a) point 1 is the centre of the box and , unless individuals have identical preference maps , can not be on the contract curve . |
| 27 | Although this leads to productive links with other agencies and services , it can not be in the best interests of the students . |
| 28 | And then to withhold one 's vote as with almost a matter of habit and routine , that can not be in the best interests of the Conservative party . |
| 29 | Those emigrés who have settled in Western society have found that their diaspora churches can not be like the great populist and establishment churches of Russia and Greece ; they have to survive as nonconformist ‘ sects ’ . |
| 30 | Surely I can not be like the old murmuring Israelites , to long after the onions and garlic of Egypt when they had suffered there such heavy bondage ? |