Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite his efforts to tear into his food with Latin gusto , or the slicked-down hair above the urban American face , he simply ca n't appear to be a native of a provincial Italian town . ‘ |
| 2 | ‘ Someone you know ca n't pretend to be other than he is , ’ Jehan suggested . |
| 3 | I ca n't pretend to be , and you know it , so what do you want ? |
| 4 | Ca n't fail to be entertaining . |
| 5 | A thousand needs that I 've spent most of my teenage years pretending do n't exist , and when they 've made themselves felt , so strongly that I ca n't fail to be aware of them , I 've crushed them , trying to control my appetite and cravings in every way that I know , fighting a pointless and endless war against myself . |
| 6 | Visitors ca n't fail to be spellbound at Uredale Glass , where you can watch skilled craftspeople blow and handform beautiful glass vases , bowls , goblets , paperweights , etc. using traditional skills , while you enjoy the informative running commentary . |
| 7 | Mr Sherrin , who describes Keith Waterhouse as ‘ a Melvyn Bragg who can write ’ , says : ‘ The play ca n't fail to be a hit . ’ |
| 8 | If you ca n't bear to be in a van with five bastards than you should n't be in a band . |
| 9 | Mister Johnny ca n't bear to be teased , really ca n't bear it ] It sends him into a terrible rage . |
| 10 | Joy 's mother says that she ca n't bear to be parted from her daughter and grandchildren again . |
| 11 | Pictures that tells us our Royals ca n't bear to be together … |
| 12 | This was the trip that was supposed to show us that , despite their problems , Charles and Di ca n't bear to be apart . |
| 13 | As it is , it looks like they ca n't bear to be together . |
| 14 | Organisation they say — though I 've never cracked it myself — is the key to success and you ca n't hope to be efficient unless , for a start , you have a tidy garden shed or garage , where most people store tools these days ! |
| 15 | ‘ You know how I ca n't stand to be fussed over . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I suppose we ca n't expect to be as spry as we were twenty years ago . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Ca n't expect to be good first time . |
| 18 | If you do n't bill on time you ca n't expect to be paid on time . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm warm toward people , but you ca n't expect to be loved . |
| 20 | Unless you talk to people regularly you ca n't claim to be in touch with what they are thinking . ’ |
| 21 | NME ca n't claim to be the first off the blocks with coverage of this splenetic musical bastard — that honour has to go to the now sadly defunct Sounds . |
| 22 | ‘ I ca n't claim to be a sailing fanatic , but this is a lot more civilised than battling through a Force Six in the Solent , togged up like an alien from outer space in thermals and foul-weather gear ! ’ |
| 23 | You 'd have to get rid of a lot of your assumptions before you could fully appreciate why I could n't live with a man I do n't love , or I do n't think you could ever understand why I ca n't accept to be maintained , to put myself at the disposal of another , be in another 's company twenty-four hours a day , share another 's pleasures and pains — and so on . ’ |
| 24 | I ca n't remember to be honest . |
| 25 | WHY I CA N'T WAIT TO BE A DAD ! by SIMON MAYO |
| 26 | You ca n't get to be nearly two thousand years old and not have few cobwebs on you . |
| 27 | A very young man has shot himself and ‘ we ’ ride off in an inquisitive Gadarene ‘ cavalcade ’ ( ‘ our ladies had never seen a suicide ’ ) to view the corpse ; ‘ everything 's so boring ’ — recall Marya Lebyadkin 's words — ‘ one ca n't afford to be squeamish about one 's amusements so long as they are fun ’ ; and Lyamshin , the man who gets himself asked to parties to mimic women in labour , new-born babies , and peasants in the confessional , steals a bunch of grapes from the room of death . |
| 28 | We ca n't afford to be annihilated . |
| 29 | We ca n't afford to be made fools of . ’ |
| 30 | Never mind the title , you ca n't afford to be reckless in this brain-bending game . |