Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [be] [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I have n't got a copy to hand and even if I had I ca n't be arsed looking through it . |
| 2 | It 's cos I ca n't be arsed to go for one stamp . |
| 3 | Ca n't be arsed to look that one up . |
| 4 | She said : ‘ John has n't told me where he is because he says it 's best that I do n't know , then I ca n't be tempted to tell anyone . ’ |
| 5 | What ca n't be moved has been protected . |
| 6 | Although Quattro Pro 4 ca n't be said to make any task easier than in an equivalent Windows spreadsheet , what it does prove is that with very little limitation a DOS product can manage the same job as a Windows product any trouble at all . |
| 7 | The organiser ca n't be traced to answer the criticisms . |
| 8 | ISDN also provides high quality , fast transmission which ca n't be achieved using an ordinary modem connection the usual way to date to exchange computer data on an ad hoc basis . |
| 9 | ‘ I ca n't be seen to hinder things without cause . |
| 10 | No no no ca n't be done have n't got a clue oh dear . |
| 11 | ‘ We ca n't be expected to wait six weeks for another good performance . ’ |
| 12 | Some teachers guard against this by making it a principle never to award an A. According to a French adage quoted by Remi Clignet ( 1974 , p. 349 ) , the maximum of 20 is ‘ given only to God , 19 to his saints , 18 to the professor 's professor , 17 to the professor himself ’ — so the student of French composition ca n't be expected to score more than 16 ! |
| 13 | She ca n't be expected to appreciate what our cells mean to us . |
| 14 | So you actually write down questions so much going on you ca n't be expected to remember everything and if you 've got just you know sort of questions written down the page like what is your name , it 's simple as that it gets you to do , what ? |
| 15 | However — ’ he shrugged ‘ — my vet in Westmead ca n't be expected to come out so far so I 've obviously got to find one for this shop . ’ |
| 16 | You ca n't you ca n't be expected to learn everything all at once can you ? |
| 17 | ‘ Well , we ca n't be expected to look after it . |
| 18 | Being George , he did n't try to cover the fluff and press on ; instead he said , ‘ Sorry , love , but I ca n't be expected to get my lines right if I get the wrong feed , can I ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I ca n't be expected to know everything , ’ replied Becky pertly . |
| 20 | He ca n't be expected to know how to stay out of trouble here in the country . |
| 21 | Motor racing authorities say fans ca n't be allowed to put themselves in danger . |
| 22 | You may care to consider the best way of achieving this , as it ca n't be allowed to continue . |
| 23 | If Morrissey ca n't be allowed to write in the third person using a character , without people automatically assuming the views expressed are his own , then we 've got problems too . |
| 24 | Employees ca n't be forced to join a Union against their will . |
| 25 | However one problem with this reparation scheme , as it 's known , is that the offender ca n't be forced to pay up . |
| 26 | He ca n't be guaranteed to take the orthodox Anglican view , is what they mean . |
| 27 | He realizes that they ca n't , people ca n't be guaranteed to do this and he points out there are four different motivations that people might have that conflict with the er moral motivations . |
| 28 | ‘ If the sheep ca n't be trusted to keep the wolves from our doors , none of us is safe any more ! ’ |
| 29 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 30 | Three million acres or more of Britain 's countryside ca n't be left to tumble down to nettles , bracken , Oxford ragwort and rosebay willow herb , punctuated by leisure centres and car parks . |