Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One thing it ca n't spot is the amount of video RAM on your VGA card . |
| 2 | However , one thing that you ca n't over-simplify is the fact that the old theological college will have to be knocked down before you can go ahead . |
| 3 | The only thing the Tories ca n't tax is fresh air . |
| 4 | But one thing you ca n't disguise is that you 'd rather not be there . |
| 5 | So then then you 've got the thing that is not measured which we ca n't measure is the disrupti the the cost of the disruption to all the other customers |
| 6 | The things you ca n't avoid are the easy part . ’ |
| 7 | I told you about the pains , ’ — she is holding her stomach — ‘ and the thing I ca n't bear is this week the children have them too . ’ |
| 8 | Wigglesworth has remained calm , coped with the aggravations and resolutely has soldiered through the work , saying only that what he ca n't bear is orchestral apathy . |
| 9 | I ca n't bear being dependent upon other people . |
| 10 | The previous year she had read about energy-efficient homes — ‘ being Australian , I ca n't bear being cold , ’ she says . |
| 11 | ‘ I ca n't bear being deserted . |
| 12 | ‘ Some people ca n't bear being closed in , ’ said Clarissa . |
| 13 | Mr Heathcliff ca n't bear being in the same room as him ! ’ |
| 14 | And also given the nature of the kind of people who want to wield authority over others they ca n't bear being out of the limelight , it gives them one last throw . |
| 15 | The only thing he ca n't do is make up his mind how . ’ |
| 16 | Remember , the one thing you ca n't do is duck the issue . |
| 17 | But what you ca n't do is cross things out or add things one , they wo n't be effective . |
| 18 | About the only thing you ca n't do is edit . |
| 19 | Erm and then I thought , now , what I ca n't do is I I ca n't do what we did last year a and really put a photograph and a des and a description of it . |
| 20 | But what I ca n't do is to look back and saying you 've been , you are like this now but |
| 21 | What they ca n't do is upgrade everyone automatically — the cost would be too great . |
| 22 | What you ca n't do is tell us what good we 're doing up there , day after day . |
| 23 | What what we must n't do with Honey and Munnford is just take things at face value because what Honey and Munnford did is they actually carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they decided that I mean they carried out interviews with er lots of people thousand and they had a general study where they carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they said was that in particular with the reflector a l some , some scores are naturally higher than others and that what we ca n't do is just sort of look at these and say well this is the highest score , therefore I 'm much more of a , of a reflector than I have of , I am of the other three , all we actually need to do is compare our scores against the general norms . |
| 24 | I mean we can walk , we can talk the only thing we ca n't do is see . |
| 25 | The only thing you ca n't do is soft those , we can do diamonds , erm , the only thing you ca n't do is pearls |
| 26 | The only thing you ca n't do is soft those , we can do diamonds , erm , the only thing you ca n't do is pearls |
| 27 | through , through the system , but what that ca n't do is to pull off the arrears amount . |
| 28 | I tell you what I ca n't do is carve |
| 29 | erm What you ca n't do is take somebody who really the very idea of computers , and turn them into a successful computer operator , because they will make mistakes , and having made mistakes they will be terrified and wo n't want to do it again . |
| 30 | Upper-class types who ca n't cope are thinner on the ground than they were , but in an exalted sort of way William Waldegrave is one of them . |