Example sentences of "can [adv] be [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Backing comes from Lou Levy ( piano ) , the excellent Herb Ellis ( electric guitar ) , Wilfred Middlebrooks ( bass ) and Gus Johnson ( drums ) , although Oscar Peterson , Ray Brown and Ed Thigpen ( the Peterson trio for many ) take a guest spot on This ca n't be love . |
| 2 | Misty , Mack the Knife , Anything Goes , Round Midnight , This ca n't be Love . |
| 3 | ‘ You took one look at her love and thought , oh no , this little bud ca n't be love . |
| 4 | It ca n't be love . |
| 5 | ‘ I ca n't be be'ind that counter all the time . |
| 6 | It ca n't be Friend . |
| 7 | Ca n't be brain dead |
| 8 | Ah , that 's the passing of a , erm , er , erm , something , no it ca n't be osmosis , cos it 's a part of membrane . |
| 9 | That ca n't be south , can it ? |
| 10 | In business , you ca n't be expert at everything . |
| 11 | I mean , we ca n't be Fontainebleau or Versailles ! |
| 12 | Then not ungently , ‘ I ought to tell you , they did talk to me about him , it ca n't be news to you what they are saying , that Michel has run off with your mother and that he wants to marry her . |
| 13 | That ca n't be news to you , man . |
| 14 | ‘ But he is sick and ca n't be spoke withal . |
| 15 | So if erm , if they 're not used , they 've got to be thrown away , they ca n't be sort of used again the next day , the veg . |
| 16 | They ca n't be alwayth a learning , nor yet they ca n't be alwayth a working , they a n't made for it ’ . |
| 17 | They ca n't be alwayth a learning , nor yet they ca n't be alwayth a working , they a n't made for it ’ . |
| 18 | The first time , right , I thought this ca n't be house of . |
| 19 | Swim up the street , just ca n't be beat |
| 20 | But we 've got ta next week where Newton who are top and ca n't be beat have gorrit . |
| 21 | It ca n't be friendship , I loathe him . |
| 22 | It ca n't be Junction 12 , since that one has a double roundabout , and it ca n't be Junction 10 , which has Duxford next to it . |
| 23 | It ca n't be Junction 12 , since that one has a double roundabout , and it ca n't be Junction 10 , which has Duxford next to it . |
| 24 | The exact origins of the ferret can only be guesswork , but either descendants of the polecat line or variations on the resultant interbreeding between stoats and polecats may have given us the ferret we know today . |
| 25 | It can only be silf . |
| 26 | Whether personal acrimony stimulated Loder can only be surmise , but it is certainly likely that Bill Saxby , jocked off Craganour after the Two Thousand Guineas , would not be bending over backwards to support that horse 's cause in the enquiry in which , as rider of Louvois , he was called to give evidence . |
| 27 | They could even have proven to be the negative experience of small ethnic enclaves defending themselves in hostile environments , but even this viewpoint can only be speculation . |
| 28 | You should be well aware that evolution can only be viewed with hindsight , and whether our species ' rapacious predatory record will prove successful in the long term can only be speculation . |
| 29 | It can only be obtuseness or a refusal to believe that can still lead the Opposition to make that claim . |
| 30 | Education has become part of the political battleground , and its transformation into a non-racial system can only be part of a much broader transformation of society . |