VERB + BEAR
- be able/unable to, can/could (hardly/scarcely)
- Don't leave me alone. I wouldn't be able to bear it. How can you bear this awful noise? We could hardly bear to be outdoors in the blinding sunlight
VERB + BEAR
- have to, must
- Do parents have to bear the whole cost of tuition fees? You must bear at least some responsibility for what has happened
- PHRASAL VERBS bear on/upon sb/sth
ADV
- heavily
- The burden of the tax bore most heavily on the poor