Example sentences of "[pers pn] can not be [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I can not be said to have a life outside these four walls . |
| 2 | And , if she has a sister who is going out of her mind , I have had a mother eighty-nine years old and senile , I can not be said to deserve any further burdens nor to have failed in carrying out my duty . |
| 3 | My favourite statistic of the match , however , is that six of the England team have the middle initial A. I can not be bothered to check whether this has ever happened before , but I doubt it . |
| 4 | I can not be expected to monitor these statements . |
| 5 | As I write , I make assumptions about what my reader already knows about language and language learning , about the common ground of knowledge , and what he or she can not be expected to know since it concerns the idiosyncrasies of my own view of these matters . |
| 6 | At present you can not be asked to pay the Defendant 's legal costs , even if you decide to abandon your claim . |
| 7 | Wherever you are grabbed , you can not be stopped using at least some of these weapons , and every time one hits home , the attacker 's pain will increase until he or she is forced to loosen the grip . |
| 8 | Legally , you can not be forced to pay your bills by direct debit but a company may not be willing to have your business if it conflicts with its administrative practices . |
| 9 | Although you can not be forced to accept a variation in the agreement , your job may be at risk if you stand on your rights . |
| 10 | You can not be compelled to commit , or be a party to , a criminal offence or to undertake any other unlawful act ( such as , in one reported case , procuring prostitutes for the firm 's customers ) , nor can you be forced to put yourself in immediate physical danger . |
| 11 | How could you show that this was not because chocolate bars , sweets , etc. , are more likely to be eaten since your depression means that you can not be bothered to cook a proper meal ? |
| 12 | I think it is rebellious of you , that you can not be bothered to find a falsehood with which to flatter me . ’ |
| 13 | Otherwise , after a hard day 's work in the middle of winter , you will find that you can not be bothered to make the effort to go along and you will have wasted the fees . |
| 14 | You do not know me and so you can not be expected to take anything on trust . |
| 15 | Where are we off to this morning then , so sunk in our own fantasies and imaginings that we can not be troubled to look out for vulnerable senior citizens , eh ? ’ |
| 16 | Both force F and area S are vector quantities , but stress is force/area , which we can not be defined using vectors . |
| 17 | He shows no love in his dictatorial and threatening speech in book five and we can not be expected to suppose , in our first reactions to the text , that what he is doing is altogether just . |
| 18 | ‘ We can not be expected to draft legislation at this stage , ’ he said . |
| 19 | He warned : ‘ We can not be expected to come up with good ideas if the Government continues to reduce our budget every year . |
| 20 | But we can not be forced to subject our foreign policy to the will of other member states . |
| 21 | The ‘ stepped pyramids ’ may be characteristic of the Cornish landscape , but they can not be said to sit naturally in it . |
| 22 | On the right , while Italian and German agents were active in Spain and sympathetic to the Spanish right , they can not be said to have exerted pressure upon it or materially to have assisted it in subverting the Republic . |
| 23 | Since such orders are not the product of a directing intelligence they can not be said to have a particular purpose . |
| 24 | Though the novels of the Quartet are linked by common characters and motifs , they can not be said to have a continuous story line . |
| 25 | The difficulty with these checks is that they can not be adjusted to trap the returning hammers without hindering their upward motion . |
| 26 | Teachers are told that what they do is vitally important , that they alone can translate and extend the National Curriculum into rich comprehensive learning opportunities and at the same time that they can not be trusted to do the job . |
| 27 | The losses are effectively " ring-fenced " so they can not be used to offset gains arising on the disposal of the purchasing group 's assets . |
| 28 | The third key characteristic is that the actual value of all the variables which according to equation ( 6.7 ) determine should be known at the end of period t - 1 ; otherwise they can not be used to predict . |
| 29 | Fastness to light may be a problem , but this does not mean that they can not be used to make finished pieces . |
| 30 | Certainly the use of light pens can ease the editing and manipulation of an image once it 's on the screen but they can not be used to copy a picture from a sheet of paper . |