Example sentences of "[that] [pron] can not [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Believe me , to conclude , tho' I have no business head , for large & lengthy affairs , I am keen enough in figures & small matters , & always was ; so that I can not be disputed . |
| 2 | The average man may perhaps think it an exaggeration but I do assure you that this is factually so and nights are not now so dark that I can not be completely aware of what is happening around me before , during and after the nets have been set . |
| 3 | The first question which an egoist might raise is why it should be assumed that I can not be aware from another 's viewpoint without being moved towards his goals . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd go back , to Europe , because I know that I can not be traced . ’ |
| 5 | The infallibilist may insist that I can not be wrong in believing that the way things look to me is pink , though I can be wrong in supposing that ‘ pink ’ is the word to use to describe the way things look . |
| 6 | The mirror reflects the fear that I can not be fully myself while my mother 's image is superimposed on mine . |
| 7 | It 's something , as I said on the programme , that I can not be all starry-eyed and bushy-tailed about . |
| 8 | And there are other stories , and these of course are much worse , and they have currency in the houses of the local gentry , and they say , ’ — he lowered his voice and spoke in a shocked whisper — ‘ that I can not be a gentleman because I am — a painter . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ More precise than that I can not be . ’ |
| 10 | I am sorry that I can not be more helpful . |
| 11 | Having said all that , I am afraid that I can not be as enthusiastic about the Bill as I should like . |
| 12 | It seems impossible to me that she can not be brought back to life , that such a person can not be brought back to normal life . |
| 13 | Her mother has been told that she can not be cured in this country , so with family and friends she 's launched an appeal to try to raise thousands of pounds to take Natalie to the Hoxey Clinic in Mexico City for specialist herbal treatment . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Remember that you can not be sure whether you or someone else has the virus just by guessing or by appearances . |
| 17 | A good receptionist must develop a telephone personality — remembering that you can not be seen , only heard . |
| 18 | If you are sorry that you can not be of assistance , then you should say so . |
| 19 | I think it is rebellious of you , that you can not be bothered to find a falsehood with which to flatter me . ’ |
| 20 | That you can not be alcoholic if you still have a family , a house , a car , a job and money in the bank . |
| 21 | That you can not be alcoholic unless you are first a regular heavy drinker . |
| 22 | The golden rule of this type of plan , in fact , there 's quite a few , the first one I really to want you to , just take on board , is that you can not be better off financially , by claiming under this policy , than you were when you were actually at work . |
| 23 | We said earlier , did we not , that you can not be better off financially by having claiming under the plan , than you did at work . |
| 24 | Tell him there has been a change of plan , that you can not be with him tonight . ’ |
| 25 | But Honderich is too busy allocating guilt to be discriminating in his investigations , with the usual result that one can not be sure if the right people have been convicted . |
| 26 | This test is ambiguous as to whether or not D must have thought about whether the woman is consenting , but there are those who argue that one can not be said ‘ not to care less ’ about something unless one has considered it . |
| 27 | Philosophers could argue against them , playwrights could mock them , but their following remained strong among the many who felt that one can not be too careful not to offend the cosmic powers . |
| 28 | The main reason why it is not completely random is that one can not be sure in every list that the n th name does not have some significance . |
| 29 | If this is so , Quine is wrong to say that one can not be an empiricist in one 's theory of meaning unless one accepts his brand of verificationism , centred on MP . |
| 30 | In its present form the Banbury Lane represents a great narrowing down of what was originally not a single track but a more or less open corridor ( so that one can not be too precise about its prehistoric course ) , bounded on either side by dense forest , in places several miles wide . |