Example sentences of "not help [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course more needs to be done , but what will not help is discouraging investment in Ulster . |
| 2 | Perhaps because it is a fine example of the Flaubertian grotesque : it can not help being serious and comic at the same time . |
| 3 | Liza could not help being conscious of the similarity of the weather conditions which , nine months previously , had been responsible for today 's journey . |
| 4 | Writing to Ellen , she could not help be bitter , remarking : — all life seems a trap again Ellen and I expect it has too often seemed so to you and will yet . |
| 5 | ‘ They ca n't help being new , poor things . |
| 6 | One could n't help being over-critical of one 's own performance . |
| 7 | It 's not the buying them that 's cunning , it 's just that I ca n't help being grateful ( I did n't actually say I was grateful , but I was n't sharp ) , it 's that he presents them so humbly , with such an air of please-don't-thank-me and I-deserve-it-all . |
| 8 | Perhaps Monica Seles wakened them with her grunting : did you know she fakes her first service ? = = At eight on the Saturday morning , I piled two disco-bleared daughters , a pick shovel and lump hammer into the car and drove through the drizzle to Lou 's home base of Barkway — a village which ca n't help being close to Royston , the place where caffs shut in the lunch hour . |
| 9 | I ca n't help being thankful I did n't have to cope with it . |
| 10 | The audience ca n't help being delighted when business whizz Katherine goes skiing and breaks her leg . |
| 11 | ‘ In the depths of my heart I ca n't help being convinced that my dear fellow-men , with a few exceptions , are worthless . ’ |
| 12 | Yes well erm I mean you ca n't help being aware of past experiences . |
| 13 | ‘ People ca n't help being silly , ’ she said rather shyly . |
| 14 | I ca n't help being curly . |
| 15 | It was a dirty trick to put it into to poor Mary Lou 's desk said Jean , she ca n't help being scared of things I suppose , she almost jumped out of her skin when she saw it , I should of thought any joker in our form would of been decent enough to popped it into say Alicia 's desk , not if it happened to be Alicia who popped it in said a sly voice , you do so love playing tricks do n't you Alicia ? |