Example sentences of "can not be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that drug abuse just ca n't be tolerated by American politics . |
| 2 | Their story ca n't be written without the story of the men , but then neither could the story of the miners be truly told without including the women . |
| 3 | ‘ When you 're surfing big Waimea , you ca n't be thinking about anything — except for the moment . |
| 4 | Something that 's going to take your attention , because while you 're thinking about your hobby you ca n't be thinking about work . |
| 5 | So you go off to this evening class , while you 're doing that , you ca n't be thinking about the problems at work , because you 've got to concentrate otherwise you 're not going to get it done . |
| 6 | ‘ You ca n't be influenced from the future because you do n't know what 's going to happen , so you can only be influenced from the past . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She used to frequent fashion parties but now says she ‘ ca n't be dealing with it ’ . |
| 9 | I ca n't be dealing with all |
| 10 | I suspect it 's because they make such great watches that the women ca n't be fooled into thinking that 40 seconds is an hour and a half . |
| 11 | ‘ Bands bigger than us have got a responsibility — they ca n't be messing with the kids ! |
| 12 | Their political passivity about these communal services ca n't be understood without taking into account the benefit of keeping it all in the family — for men it secured their surveillance over the time and labour of women . |
| 13 | I ca n't be hamstrung by sentiment . |
| 14 | More and more women from a peasant background are now reaching this stage — a fact which ca n't be ignored by employers . |
| 15 | We soon learn how to cope but still relieve the tension by shouting obscenities that ca n't be heard over the sounds of the engines . |
| 16 | ‘ Spirituality ca n't be imposed from above' |
| 17 | And this is one call up that ca n't be ruined by injury ! |
| 18 | ‘ I 've told her he 's travelling between America and Mexico and ca n't be reached for a few days . |
| 19 | The area ca n't be affected by the adventurers physically or magically . |
| 20 | Er , which means I ca n't be fired without a great deal of hassle , er , but , I er , er , the kind of the down-side is I have to go to the office occasionally . |
| 21 | Although this stuff is low-level , if instructions are correctly coded and subtitled , there 's no reason why software ca n't be ported across standardised , low-level mechanisms . |
| 22 | ‘ The hospital say he ca n't be moved for two months yet , ’ said Annunziata , picking up the tray again , ‘ but then il dottore will arrange everything . |
| 23 | Single cells ca n't be moved with the mouse , and ranges which are in the process of being copied or moved look identical , so you 're more likely to lose track of what you 're doing . |
| 24 | Europe 's grain harvest looks certain to hit the record books , so does the surplus grain mountain which ca n't be moved on world markets |
| 25 | Would the situation improve with the fitting of 205 radials on new rims , as I 'm sure the present ‘ thin ’ rubber ca n't be helping at all . |
| 26 | Linking the two disparate worlds of Unix and SNA — Unix uses character terminals rather than block mode , is network , rather than host-based and ca n't be accessed by IBM 's NetView network management tools — can be achieved in a number of ways . |
| 27 | There 's nothing , it seems , that ca n't be turned into a salad as long as it is properly dressed . |
| 28 | And I had one rehearsal of two Bach pieces which were really difficult and I was com , feeling completely frantic during the break in rehearsal , and went over to look at the music and some fellow called Don bounded over to me and said , oh you ca n't be you know you sh ca n't be looking at that now , ba , la dee da dee da ! |
| 29 | You ca n't be looking after her . |
| 30 | He blames speculators and traders for the shock waves and says the surge in prices ca n't be justified by the oil crisis . |