Example sentences of "ca [not/n't] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that drug abuse just ca n't be tolerated by American politics . |
| 2 | I ca n't be involved . ’ |
| 3 | It may fill up very slowly and gradually , particularly where stress is constant , such as when work is over demanding , financial problems ca n't be overcome , or the children are going through a difficult phase . |
| 4 | We er went as far as we could without er erm finding that we would have to delete allocations that we were making or produce unrealistic er development sites erm the the figure of er twenty five hectares simply means that we 're ratcheting the the whole thing down to a point at which it ca n't be sustained . |
| 5 | Their story ca n't be written without the story of the men , but then neither could the story of the miners be truly told without including the women . |
| 6 | ‘ Nothing that ca n't be written off as a momentary aberration between a man and a woman . |
| 7 | Of course , caring and consideration ca n't be taught . |
| 8 | It ca n't be taught you . |
| 9 | ‘ Sources close to the ‘ artiste ’ suggest the decision to cancel the tour was not made for glamorous or news-worthy reasons , like police/local authority objections or fear on the streets of Britain … just that he ca n't be arsed . ’ |
| 10 | The birds , the bollocks , the bodily functions — the whole wisecracking , ca n't be arsed , northern git trip has returned . |
| 11 | Ca n't be arsed to look that one up . |
| 12 | However , I have n't got a copy to hand and even if I had I ca n't be arsed looking through it . |
| 13 | Do n't go in the common room , I ca n't be arsed . |
| 14 | It 's cos I ca n't be arsed to go for one stamp . |
| 15 | Leading lights of the service sector , headed by Racal , could produce results that go some way towards alleviating the gloomy economic prospects again this week , even if Friday 's poor inflation figure ca n't be glossed over . |
| 16 | ‘ You ca n't be influenced from the future because you do n't know what 's going to happen , so you can only be influenced from the past . |
| 17 | And the lights — you guessed it — sit high on anorexic columns where they ca n't be stoned . |
| 18 | One can think of a number of cases which are coming before the courts where there 's been a lot of publicity and I 'm sure that the legal teams involved in those cases will be studying this judgement er and will be considering whether or not those principles ca n't be applied to their cases . |
| 19 | I suspect it 's because they make such great watches that the women ca n't be fooled into thinking that 40 seconds is an hour and a half . |
| 20 | Perhaps the European audience is being spared more difficult or anomalous work on the grounds that it ca n't be understood out of context . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It ca n't be understood . |
| 23 | I ca n't be hamstrung by sentiment . |
| 24 | More and more women from a peasant background are now reaching this stage — a fact which ca n't be ignored by employers . |
| 25 | Beltex ca n't be ignored |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But with an identified total of over £400 million for C&P , it clearly ca n't be ignored . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | You can do all this beautifully , but if you ca n't be heard it 's a waste of time . |
| 30 | ‘ Spirituality ca n't be imposed from above' |