Example sentences of "can [adv] be [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , it ca n't be easy for any of them . |
| 2 | ‘ You ca n't be serious about this . ’ |
| 3 | New York ca n't be serious about this . |
| 4 | George and Marie simply ca n't be present at both establishments all the time : they have to appoint unit managers , set them clear targets and perhaps adopt more ‘ functional ’ roles themselves . |
| 5 | We ca n't be credible in that great human crusade if we ca n't face the real challenge of getting rid of British nuclear weapons . ’ |
| 6 | Now it looks as if not all of that will be called , but we ca n't be sure at this stage . |
| 7 | ‘ We ca n't be sure of that yet , Angela , ’ said her mummy , coming into the room . |
| 8 | ‘ We ca n't be sure of that , ’ said Owen cautiously . |
| 9 | You ca n't be sure of that . |
| 10 | I think when you 're dealing with something that is transmitted sexually you have to be very very clear about how it 's transmitted , I think you , you ca n't be vague about these sexual terms , you have , for , for medical reasons there 's nothing else ; you have to be exactly er clear about what you mean , by , by the activities you 're describing . |
| 11 | They ca n't be involved in this . ’ |
| 12 | I believe so sir , yes , erm I ca n't be specific at this time . |
| 13 | You could ca n't be far off nine hundred then ? |
| 14 | Yeah I know subjects they 're not you ca n't be interested in all of them . |
| 15 | The hair is n't grey , it 's dark brown like mine , It looks wet , but it ca n't be wet in this heat — it 's the grease in it . |
| 16 | If we ca n't be open with each other … ’ |
| 17 | You ca n't be frivolous in hot metal . ’ |
| 18 | underneath it , you know , under those trucks or something , but I mean we , we , we ca n't be responsible for that . |
| 19 | I mean , there are many , many cases of injustice around the world and , the West , the British government , ca n't be responsible for all of them , but there 's , there 's one particular case of Iraq , where we 've already gone to war , to , in the cause of democracy and freedom , and I do n't believe that when Saddam offends again as he does day by day , we can turn a blind eye . |
| 20 | ‘ You ca n't be flippant about such matters . ’ |
| 21 | Cardboards and paper can obviously be useful for prolific artists or those travelling light ! |
| 22 | Cardboards and paper can obviously be useful for prolific artists or those travelling light ! |
| 23 | Coping with nurse training after marriage and childbearing can obviously be difficult in some circumstances but may be delayed until children are more independent . |
| 24 | The comfort and security you are chasing can only be temporary with pusillanimous people like you prancing around . |
| 25 | Highly-viscous lavas are always concerned in Peleean eruptions ; as we saw earlier , a dome or plug of lava often builds up within the crater concerned , blocking the throat of the volcano , so that the pressures building up beneath can only be relieved by vigorous explosions , which may be directed either upwards or sideways , blasting out as nuees ardentes . |
| 26 | The loss of basic medical sciences can only be detrimental to clinical teaching and research and to the staff of university hospitals . |
| 27 | Everyone in an organisation is interdependent : authority alone is insufficient to obtain good performance , and can only be effective in certain situations and with certain people . |
| 28 | Now if you violate any of the assumptions ordinary squares , right , then the procedure will produce or may produce misleading results , we can only be confident in statistical terms about ordinary leased squares parameters , right , because we know and show in theory that they hold providing a number of assumptions are met , like you have serially uncorrelated errors , right , we do n't have m multi co-linearity amongst the regresses , right , we have constant variance throughout the sample now if any of those er assumptions are breached , violated then our , any statistical results that are generated from erm the technique that assumes that those assumptions have n't been breached erm are invalidated and we can get very misleading er parameter estimates , right , in the presence of auto correlation or multi-linearity erm . |
| 29 | Classical elasticity as developed in the nineteenth century assumed that the deformations caused on application of load were small ; in fact the linear relation between stress and strain , as defined above , can only be true for infinitesimal strains . |
| 30 | This can only be true for those speakers who are more or less monostylistic and " basilectal " : in other words , those whose repertoire is confined to a variety of Creole which is almost maximally different from Standard English . |