Sentence examples for cannot be to from inspiring English sources

'cannot be to' is not correct or usable in written English.
If you want to express something that cannot happen or is impossible to do, you can use the phrase 'cannot be' followed by an adjective or verb. For example: This engine cannot be repaired.

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It cannot be to take advantage of the NHS or to exploit the benefits system.

(Afghanistan cannot be to America what it was to the Soviets because we apparently don't care that much about Afghanistan).

Our response cannot be to mutter "how sharper than a serpent's tooth" and demand a refund of the Marshall Plan.

He continued, "The destiny of all the peoples of the Third World cannot be to establish themselves in the West".

"We are basically proceeding on the presumption that the government's intent cannot be to mandate us to gouge uninsured patients," he said.

An author's strategy in rendering these events, of course, cannot be to warp the historical record just to suit aesthetic purposes.

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To speak when one cannot is to blunder.

It cannot be returned to Tehran.

This cannot be! — engaged to Mr. Darcy!

Lee cannot be expected to wait.

Such things cannot be taught to dogs.

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