Example sentences of "[noun prp] can [not/n't] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gazza can not wait to be one of them again . |
| 2 | Kevin Wilson was another who had a fine game ; he has developed into a player Northern Ireland can not afford to be without . |
| 3 | Russia can not afford to be flanked by newly nuclear states on its southern borders ; or to allow the ethnic strife in and between ex-Soviet republics to turn nuclear ; or to see extremists among its own fissiparous peoples demand independence on pain of nuclear terrorism . |
| 4 | ANYONE familiar with York can not fail to be impressed by the pedestrianisation scheme which has enhanced the city in recent years . |
| 5 | And Michael Palin can not bear to be scrutinised . |