Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [adv] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , now I have listened to their first Phonogram-fuelled '60s Baggle Taggle on vinyl , I discover that I ca n't even be arsed to find out where they live . |
| 2 | It ca n't even be given away , so it ends up being stored at enormous expense on even more land . |
| 3 | Sat along the front of the stage , bored looking girls ca n't even be bothered to turn around and see what all the commotion is about . |
| 4 | And if you think I 'm going to bail Sleet out with the money Francis left me when you ca n't even be bothered to learn the most basic elements of running an estate then you 're mistaken . ’ |
| 5 | give tutorial credence it ca n't just be assumed you can take them out of tutorial and it has stopped tremendously . |
| 6 | So safety is a thing which is ca n't just be said Oh it 's it 's safer to go by train than it is to cross the road . |
| 7 | However it ca n't just be bolted on to the tractor , and Mr Tomlinson had to spend further hours in the workshop matching it to the tractor 's backend and getting the gearing right . |
| 8 | Knowledge and techniques ca n't just be forgotten . |
| 9 | The point is that some things in health services ca n't easily be looked at with quantitative methods alone . |
| 10 | In an ASCII format , documents are displayed in their lowest form on screen and ca n't easily be read . |
| 11 | ‘ I ca n't always be looking after all your property . ’ |
| 12 | Still , they ca n't always be chanting and dancing . |
| 13 | because of a girl , I really think he 's loyal in that way , in that sense , because they are very close they have a laugh and I know when we 're with them they 're always like seem to be impressing everyone but I 'm sure when they 're together they have like , you know , human conversations , they must do , they ca n't always be talking about screwing and you know , which girls have got big tits and all that |
| 14 | If I can get out onto the hill for rescues , then that 's good — but that ca n't always be guaranteed with the work commitments you have as a doctor . |
| 15 | ‘ You ca n't possibly be suggesting Father intimidates her , ’ Guy said . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm young and handsome and fast and pretty and ca n't possibly be beat , ’ said the young boxer on the TV screen . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm young and handsome and fast and pretty and ca n't possibly be beat , ’ the voice said . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's obvious to me , since you ca n't possibly be paying all the mortgage on your flat without help , that my cousin must be paying something towards it . ’ |
| 19 | She ca n't possibly be attempting a perfect copy … ’ |
| 20 | There are always accusations of piracy and copy-catting , though they ca n't usually be substantiated . |
| 21 | As a lawyer , he had learnt that the safest course was inactivity ; if you do n't do things , you ca n't usually be blamed for them . |
| 22 | Other books have been championed for years by obsessed option-owners , like Saul Zaentz 's doomed production of Peter Matthiesen 's At Play In The Fields Of The Lord , and Cronenberg 's Naked Lunch , the latter understanding that cult novels ca n't usually be filmed at all . |
| 23 | ‘ He ca n't still be praying , ’ Southgate insisted . |
| 24 | Surely you ca n't still be bothered about Adam 's ridiculous gibe about you being brash and brassy ? ’ |
| 25 | She ca n't still be curling her hair . |
| 26 | Even Parr ca n't still be smiling after that ! |
| 27 | ‘ They ca n't now be heard to say , ‘ Boo hoo I want to get out of it now ’ , ’ said Mr Prescott . |
| 28 | ‘ But when companies are laying off workers , they ca n't then be seen to donate money to charity . |
| 29 | Sinead O'Connor 's use of a picture of a murdered Guatemalan street child ca n't really be compared to Benetton 's shock-ads-for-profit . |
| 30 | Yeah you ca n't really be listening to what I 'm saying cos you cos I have n't finished yet . |