Example sentences of "can [not/n't] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Their political passivity about these communal services ca n't be understood without taking into account the benefit of keeping it all in the family — for men it secured their surveillance over the time and labour of women . |
| 32 | It ca n't be understood . |
| 33 | I ca n't be hamstrung by sentiment . |
| 34 | More and more women from a peasant background are now reaching this stage — a fact which ca n't be ignored by employers . |
| 35 | Beltex ca n't be ignored |
| 36 | Evenings full of wine rich in body , and food that just ca n't be ignored , inevitably drift into conversations that solve the world 's problems , and tomorrow the sun will shine again and it 's time to shake a leg and enjoy another day . |
| 37 | But with an identified total of over £400 million for C&P , it clearly ca n't be ignored . |
| 38 | We soon learn how to cope but still relieve the tension by shouting obscenities that ca n't be heard over the sounds of the engines . |
| 39 | You can do all this beautifully , but if you ca n't be heard it 's a waste of time . |
| 40 | ‘ Look , I know yer ca n't be servin' all the time , but I was a bit narked the way yer was sittin' wiv that Don Jacobs . |
| 41 | ‘ Spirituality ca n't be imposed from above' |
| 42 | This is a general facility we might like to write in which we would allow us to work like that on any job there is n't for some reason a job , a good reason why a kick-in procedure ca n't be followed , that we deal with it by having em , in the master job file which states that , states the deliberate erm , position rather than an accident . |
| 43 | Since we 're talking about rules , what about erm Mrs Thatcher , Lady Thatcher wanting to change the rules so that a sitting Prime Minister ca n't be challenged . |
| 44 | And this is one call up that ca n't be ruined by injury ! |
| 45 | The draft for this is almost complete but it ca n't be finalised until the costs of the revised programme have been agreed for each of the participating nations . |
| 46 | ‘ Nothing that ca n't be fixed … ’ |
| 47 | He said , ‘ It 's nothing that ca n't be fixed . ’ |
| 48 | ‘ I 've told her he 's travelling between America and Mexico and ca n't be reached for a few days . |
| 49 | I 'm most grateful to the honourable gentleman er of course these buildings are all related to the orders were discussing in order that M E Ps can be elected in the first place and is it not interesting to note that if agreement ca n't be reached as indeed is the position of the moment er in u what is called the European union over where actually the parliament is going to sit . |
| 50 | But he told the Legislative Council : ‘ We do recognise that the current uncertain situation can not be allowed to continue for much longer and that we will need to gazette the bill if a decision on talks ca n't be reached imminently . ’ |
| 51 | We have seen exactly the same psychological process in palaeontology , where the fashionable fixation for homoeomorphy in many groups brainwashed many of us into thinking : " if they look alike they ca n't be related " ! |
| 52 | The area ca n't be affected by the adventurers physically or magically . |
| 53 | Mr Wakeley is enthusiastic about CD-Rom 's potential : ‘ It offers lots of advantages , it 's cheap , safe and the discs ca n't be erased . |
| 54 | If you 're poor , your women ca n't be secluded , they have to go out to work . |
| 55 | If this is how bands who openly admit to being influenced by The Clash sound today , poor old Strummer and Jones ca n't be getting much sleep at night . |
| 56 | And he ca n't be getting the research at Hoggatt 's . " |
| 57 | If this is how bands who openly admit to being influenced by The Clash sound today , poor old Strummer and Jones ca n't be getting much sleep at night . |
| 58 | I do n't care as long as they know them so that somebody else has got some responsibility , she said I just ca n't be getting away with it and and , and erm being irresponsible . |
| 59 | ‘ I ca n't be hearing you right — ’ |
| 60 | Er , which means I ca n't be fired without a great deal of hassle , er , but , I er , er , the kind of the down-side is I have to go to the office occasionally . |