Example sentences of "can n't be " in BNC.
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| 31 | I ca n't bring them here although I 'd like to , and I ca n't be with them safely . |
| 32 | What the management has to learn is that we ca n't be mucked about . ’ |
| 33 | In the latest Jane 's Defence Weekly , he says this discovery ‘ ca n't be anything but bad news to forces planning to defend against these tanks with current anti-tank weapons ’ . |
| 34 | Mansell ca n't be in Portugal and Japan at the same time , ’ he said . |
| 35 | ‘ They ca n't be our lot , ’ Taff whispered , ‘ That 's Jerry 's positions over there . ’ |
| 36 | ‘ Ca n't be much left of that bloody town , ’ shouted one of the 3″ mortar team as we watched the bombs falling from the aircraft . |
| 37 | Every pound spent on these extra expenses is one less pound which ca n't be split between the artist and the promoter . |
| 38 | ( Plus I knew one of the kids was trying to escape all the time ) It ca n't be much fun being locked up there It really sounds like a POW story . |
| 39 | You ca n't be for the audition , said Malcolm . |
| 40 | ‘ I ca n't be late , ’ said Hermione dutifully , ‘ I really have got that gruesome geography project to hand in . |
| 41 | ‘ You ca n't be certain you 're right and there is the greatest temptation to put them off and not to take them . |
| 42 | They ca n't be informal to start with . |
| 43 | Well , we ca n't be a service economy because that does n't actually make anything . ’ |
| 44 | If you do the generous thing , then you ca n't be blamed . ’ |
| 45 | I do n't know why things ca n't be the same in this house as in every other house in the country . |
| 46 | ‘ It ca n't be helped , it must be done , ’ he said after they had eaten and rested . |
| 47 | It is perishing in the tent , but I ca n't be bothered to dress — it will only take a moment , I tell myself . |
| 48 | More and more women from a peasant background are now reaching this stage — a fact which ca n't be ignored by employers . |
| 49 | B — jumps at him , Jack the referee drops on stomach to count but is fast between wrestlers and ca n't be seen and he manages to free himself , and counts 1 2 3 very quickly . |
| 50 | Ooh , you ca n't be ! |
| 51 | You ca n't be Nora . |
| 52 | It ca n't be far , I know that , but I du n no the way . |
| 53 | ‘ Ca n't be right , ’ said Staff ; ‘ the Elbe is miles wide . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ She ca n't be going off to a big party before the Championship . |
| 55 | It ca n't be anything . ’ |
| 56 | ‘ Well , it ca n't be anything — ’ and again , passionately , ‘ it ca n't be ! |
| 57 | ‘ Well , it ca n't be anything — ’ and again , passionately , ‘ it ca n't be ! |
| 58 | ‘ Stop telling me reasons why it ca n't be done , ’ the Prince thundered , ‘ and get on and find a way . ’ |
| 59 | ‘ She ca n't be dead ! ’ |
| 60 | At least it provides a starting point to the discussion , even if it ca n't be copied . |