Example sentences of "ca [not/n't] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't be sure . |
| 2 | That there was a pattern for her in Lermontov 's novel is conceivable : but it ca n't be claimed that it fits her with exactitude , or that it provides an explanation of her conduct . |
| 3 | It ca n't be stressed enough that you should know the entire play from which you select your audition piece ; not only that , but have thought carefully about the characters and their inter-relationship . |
| 4 | I say no mine , perhaps the choice of location … he says it ca n't be your fault , you have made love to the most brilliant and beautiful men of your generation , you have slept with the great . |
| 5 | That ca n't be all bad , can it ? |
| 6 | Appalling Italian food , of course , but beggars ca n't be choosers , what ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You ca n't be too careful with a really crusty port , ’ said Henry . |
| 8 | ‘ No , it ca n't be . |
| 9 | It ca n't be . ’ |
| 10 | If that 's a sign of madness , I 've gone completely crazy , but it ca n't be worse than this . |
| 11 | ‘ It ca n't be as bad as all that . ’ |
| 12 | If you are using these , keep them where they ca n't be tampered with . |
| 13 | Ca n't be bad in bed either . ’ |
| 14 | But one man , one person , ca n't be home , she has to keep from panicking , trust she 's doing right , that 's all . |
| 15 | But I ca n't be a tourist forever . ’ |
| 16 | You ca n't be it at home : they wo n't notice ; |
| 17 | Its atmosphere and suspense are nursed by locality — Petersburg — in ways which ca n't be escaped but which often get misreported . |
| 18 | The narrator ca n't be sure but guesses he was n't even aware of the existence of the flowers . |
| 19 | Peter tried to rouse his countrymen from their aboriginal stupor and turn them into Europeans ; but a Russian is n't and ca n't be a German or a Frenchman , and the result of Peter 's efforts was to produce an educated class who ca n't be Russians either . |
| 20 | Peter tried to rouse his countrymen from their aboriginal stupor and turn them into Europeans ; but a Russian is n't and ca n't be a German or a Frenchman , and the result of Peter 's efforts was to produce an educated class who ca n't be Russians either . |
| 21 | Peter Verkhovensky ca n't be fitted into this picture because his raison d'être is outside it , manipulating . |
| 22 | One ca n't be sure . |
| 23 | This is the world of the underground man 's eruptive and unexplained ‘ They wo n't let me — I ca n't be — good ’ ; which world is itself continuous with that of the pre-Siberian stories , particularly The Double where Dostoevsky says he found his underground type . |
| 24 | But the main thrust of Olson 's argument is unaffected , and it ca n't be set aside : this great American poet ( and Olson knows that Pound is all of that ) was a Fascist , profoundly , and no amount of talk about his affinities with Whitman will save him for democracy , nor will any attempt to treat his anti-Semitism as an unrelated pathological aberration . |
| 25 | ‘ But you ca n't be generous , you have to go for the best person for the job . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ FIFTY million freshmen ca n't be wrong , ’ thought Boris . |
| 28 | I ca n't bring them here although I 'd like to , and I ca n't be with them safely . |
| 29 | What the management has to learn is that we ca n't be mucked about . ’ |
| 30 | In the latest Jane 's Defence Weekly , he says this discovery ‘ ca n't be anything but bad news to forces planning to defend against these tanks with current anti-tank weapons ’ . |