Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] [prep] [being] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can not cope with being criticized , seems depressed |
| 2 | Just as a leader can not exist without followers , so too strategic vision can not exist without being so recognized by followers . |
| 3 | The future can not come into being until the past is dead . |
| 4 | ( a ) Murder and serious non-fatal offences ( except for games , chastisement , etc ) : a person can not consent to being killed , nor can one consent to grievous bodily harm . |
| 5 | You can also see why we can not play at being Christians — because God became human for us and took our humanity up to the throne of God . |
| 6 | Awareness , although aided by propositional knowledge , is primarily of the concrete situation , to which one can not attend without being causally affected , so that to have become aware of it at all one must already be responding to it in ways which vary with the range and degree of awareness . |