Example sentences of "it ca not [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There always has to be good reason ( which is not defined , but is a sort of distilled wisdom ) for undertaking a statutory enquiry ; it ca n't just be a fishing expedition . |
| 3 | give tutorial credence it ca n't just be assumed you can take them out of tutorial and it has stopped tremendously . |
| 4 | It 's all to do with marketing but then again it 's all to do with the reason for that is I suppose that 's what people want you know if they see a video er er if they watch a video on television and they listen to the song it has to add up you know , it ca n't just be a a story book of one thing and a song about another thing you know . |
| 5 | It ca n't even be given away , so it ends up being stored at enormous expense on even more land . |
| 6 | ‘ It ca n't surely be Temptation . ’ |
| 7 | Well cos it ca n't only be in here or in there , it 's got ta be everywhere in n it ? |
| 8 | ‘ I know it was awfully cheap : it 'll probably fall to bits , it ca n't really be cashmere . |
| 9 | BZW 's Davis says : ‘ One does n't want four pints of White Label , so it ca n't really be a substitute for draught beer in a pub , whereas a canned product stands a much greater chance . ’ |
| 10 | It ca n't really be alive , she thought desperately . |
| 11 | It ca n't really be a matter of changing one 's altitude . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | but it ca n't ever be that easy , can it ? |
| 14 | It ca n't possibly be a dog and not be an animal . |