Example sentences of "can not be [vb pp] [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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I ca n't be hamstrung by sentiment . |
| 8 | More and more women from a peasant background are now reaching this stage — a fact which ca n't be ignored by employers . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Spirituality ca n't be imposed from above' |
| 11 | And this is one call up that ca n't be ruined by injury ! |
| 12 | ‘ I 've told her he 's travelling between America and Mexico and ca n't be reached for a few days . |
| 13 | The area ca n't be affected by the adventurers physically or magically . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There 's nothing , it seems , that ca n't be turned into a salad as long as it is properly dressed . |
| 21 | He blames speculators and traders for the shock waves and says the surge in prices ca n't be justified by the oil crisis . |
| 22 | It ca n't be beaten on breadth of features — it 's a quality product with excellent support . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Or in anyway , ca n't be made at the meeting . |
| 25 | Good communications ca n't be made through long and rigid chains of command . |
| 26 | What is important is that ‘ other products ’ ca n't be made in the hours used for the order . |
| 27 | Erm unle unless we 're actually making that change as such , then the only way forward it seems to me i i is on the lines of which of which Mr has indicated which is that erm essentially the needs of Greater York are calculated on the current Greater York study area and the requirements are made on that basis and the supply is within that area , unless it ca n't be made in that area in that case it goes without that area , and therefore it it it 's part of the justification for the new settlement . |
| 28 | Many of the staff were ‘ rather pugnacious characters — it 's a pity this dynamicism ca n't be channelled into a less reactionary form ’ . |
| 29 | And the response ca n't be limited to big promises with little delivery . ’ |
| 30 | The relative importance of these items to those who wrote and kept them ca n't be assessed in terms of size or splendour . |