Example sentences of "can [not/n't] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can think of a number of cases which are coming before the courts where there 's been a lot of publicity and I 'm sure that the legal teams involved in those cases will be studying this judgement er and will be considering whether or not those principles ca n't be applied to their cases . |
| 2 | The MOd of Defence says every effort will be nmade to find employment for it 's staff , but that the same commitment ca n't be made to civilians employed by the US.Many people in THE surrounding villages rely on the base for a living . |
| 3 | And the response ca n't be limited to big promises with little delivery . ’ |
| 4 | A person who has parked his car on a road and left it unattended ca n't be said to be the driver of this offence . |
| 5 | 140 civilians work at the base and those who ca n't be transferred to other defence jobs will be made redundant . |
| 6 | It ca n't be referring to the ones the sons of the kingdom that are inheriting it is it ? |
| 7 | I thought you were getting yourself into trouble there again , but you tell me he ca n't be listening to you . |
| 8 | So somehow you , you , you , you 've got to get these ideas through th that you you 've recognized that it , it 's , it 's necessary to move on beyond the pol the moderate policies of the United Front but you ca n't be seen to be doing that . |
| 9 | So erm er erm by n by no means er could you call one point one percent of something that can vary by factors of three in , in , in , in Cornwall the natural radiation is three times what it is in , in Essex erm er but they seem to be quite er healthy nevertheless in Cornwall erm so point one percent is er varies by factors of three , obviously ca n't be considered to be erm er a major political er a major erm er environmental hazard . |
| 10 | But when you first started when you 're not quite sure what 's happening you ca n't be expected to be perfect the first time you have a go at something can you . |
| 11 | There was ‘ the moment of truth ’ and ‘ it ca n't be happening to me … ’ feeling . |
| 12 | This ca n't be happening to me , Kate would never get herself into this sort of situation . |
| 13 | It ca n't be happening to me . |
| 14 | Erm yeah er mm yeah no I 'm quite intrigued myself about this , this idea that erm somehow it 's heterosexuals who trus who are trustworthy and that , you know , once you have a sexuality that 's different from heterosexuality then you ca n't be trusted with children and you , you know you , you ca n't be trusted to er you know I do n't know , run boys ' clubs , you ca n't be trusted in , in a , you know , it 's sort of , it 's almost like , like erm er it , it almost flies in the face of evidence that the vast majority of sexual abuse that goes on of one sort or another is , is heterosexual , it 's |
| 15 | ‘ They are children on the brink , at the end of their tether , and we ca n't be saying to them come back in 50 weeks . ’ |
| 16 | If the District Leader and Landrat or the Mayor ca n't be torn to pieces any more , they go on to the State leadership and the Führer himself . |
| 17 | ‘ I honestly ca n't be bothered to bullshit , ’ he says . |
| 18 | ca n't be bothered to going out again boy . |
| 19 | I use these three then I 'll put my thingies in cos I ca n't be bothered to erm change . |
| 20 | We are led inexorably towards Kingsley and Redford squaring up for a mental duel between software equals , one barmily convinced that He Who Has The Database Rules The World and the other on the side of human compassion which ca n't be reduced to byte-size chunks . |
| 21 | The customer can not be bound to the finance company by his signature on a document which the finance company 's agent knows does not reflect the customer 's intention . |
| 22 | Replacement seats can not be fitted to Supataps . |
| 23 | The scatter at the high end — small numbers of authors publishing large numbers of papers — is so large that a straight line can not be fitted to this graph with any degree of confidence . |
| 24 | The scatter at the high end — small numbers of authors publishing large numbers of papers — is so large that a straight line can not be fitted to this graph with any degree of confidence . |
| 25 | All behaviouristic theories of cognition are viciously third-personal , where that expression signifies , first , that they can not be applied to the first-person perspective and , second that our ability to apply them to the third person really rests on our bringing to bear first-person knowledge : as with rats in mazes , where my plain and unreduced apprehension of the rat 's environment enables me to see its grasp of that environment in terms of its behaviour within it . |
| 26 | Most certainly it can not be applied to the peasant buildings of a century or so later . |
| 27 | At least with the man , a urethritis can be diagnosed , albeit imperfectly , by noticing pus cells in the urethra , but the same criteria can not be applied to the woman . |
| 28 | This means that the kind of discount which supermarkets , for example , are able to offer on other consumer goods can not be applied to books . |
| 29 | While the double-blind trial is well suited to testing of conventional drugs it often can not be applied to complementary therapies , for instance , the acupuncturist must establish a close link with the patient during treatment , and the therapist must know which points he is needling and possibly modify them as the patient 's responses change . |
| 30 | The equation linking trades unionism with Labour 's advance can not be applied to London ; not only were unions weak , but in the interwar period suffered setbacks as the depression deepened . |