Example sentences of "ca not be " in BNC.
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1 | This is the opposite of RP ( where can is front and ca n't is back ) , so we plainly can not explain this back /a/ pattern by relating it directly to RP . |
2 | We are here to serve the community and to have a vicar who ca n't is a very big embarressment . |
3 | ‘ And the ones that ca n't are with Mrs Black , that it ? ’ |
4 | I ca n't be sure . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | That ca n't be all bad , can it ? |
9 | Appalling Italian food , of course , but beggars ca n't be choosers , what ? ’ |
10 | ‘ You ca n't be too careful with a really crusty port , ’ said Henry . |
11 | ‘ No , it ca n't be . |
12 | It ca n't be . ’ |
13 | If that 's a sign of madness , I 've gone completely crazy , but it ca n't be worse than this . |
14 | ‘ It ca n't be as bad as all that . ’ |
15 | If you are using these , keep them where they ca n't be tampered with . |
16 | Ca n't be bad in bed either . ’ |
17 | But one man , one person , ca n't be home , she has to keep from panicking , trust she 's doing right , that 's all . |
18 | But I ca n't be a tourist forever . ’ |
19 | You ca n't be it at home : they wo n't notice ; |
20 | Its atmosphere and suspense are nursed by locality — Petersburg — in ways which ca n't be escaped but which often get misreported . |
21 | The narrator ca n't be sure but guesses he was n't even aware of the existence of the flowers . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | Peter Verkhovensky ca n't be fitted into this picture because his raison d'être is outside it , manipulating . |
25 | One ca n't be sure . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | ‘ But you ca n't be generous , you have to go for the best person for the job . |
29 | 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 . ’ |
30 | ‘ FIFTY million freshmen ca n't be wrong , ’ thought Boris . |