Example sentences of "[noun sg] can [not/n't] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from all else the concentration required to hear mentally an orchestral passage while seated in a bus or train or standing in the Underground can not fail to be beneficial . |
| 2 | But with the tax collectors anxious to get their hands on every ha'penny , the Chancellor can not afford to be generous . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , sport can not afford to be soft on those who cause the problems — whether it is athletes who , as drug users , habitually cheat , or the spectators who take the law into their own hands and invade football pitches . |
| 4 | The international community can not afford to be complacent , assuming that if the United Nations peacekeeping force is there that everything will go according to plan . |
| 5 | Reforming officials within both the prison system and the criminal justice process can not afford to be merely reactive . |
| 6 | The therapist can not expect to be able to do it easily and accurately straightaway or every time . |
| 7 | ( a ) Murder and serious non-fatal offences ( except for games , chastisement , etc ) : a person can not consent to being killed , nor can one consent to grievous bodily harm . |
| 8 | To adapt to the increasing complexities of modern business life , an organisation can not afford to be a sluggish bureaucracy . |
| 9 | Although " commercial enterprise may have a legitimate and desirable object … that object can not claim to be the satisfaction of any of the three great national affections — the love of truth , the love of beauty , and the love of righteousness " . |
| 10 | Moreover , if the perspective is lengthened to include the Victorian period the observer can not fail to be struck by a feeling of historical déjà vu [ Kirby , 1981 ] . |
| 11 | Moreover , because the bad copy by definition can not claim to be copying anything but itself , it creates its ‘ original ’ retroactively , so that the copy precedes the original in a ghostly originary repetition . |
| 12 | The Government can not pretend to be concerned with security at army barracks and then , without regard for the soldiers , put them on the streets of London as easy targets for the terrorists . ’ |
| 13 | The Government can not pretend to be concerned with security at army barracks and then , without regard for the soldiers , put them on the streets of London as easy targets for the terrorists . ’ |
| 14 | Even the most veteran balletomane can not fail to be moved by the production and the dying swan scene at the end brought a few tears in the audience . |
| 15 | To say that the patient can not demand to be stabbed because he can not suspend the operation of the criminal law and absolve the other of liability begs the question , depending as it does on a determination of what the criminal law is . |
| 16 | These notes about social work practice where there is mental impairment can not begin to be comprehensive ; skills in this area are developing fast . |
| 17 | Given its concern with the exercise of public power , political elites and government institutions , the modern study of politics can not fail to be sexist . |