Example sentences of "[verb] could [not/n't] be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the transaction by which the end result was sought could not be characterised as a sale of land with finished buildings thereon . |
| 2 | Bjornsson went on to study the newspapers of 11 countries , and found substantial differences , which he argued could not be attributed to the idiosyncrasies of the languages . |
| 3 | However , in both trials almost a third of randomised individuals were excluded from the analysis either because of loss to follow up or insufficient compliance with medication , and an analysis by intention to treat could not be reconstructed from the data presented nor from data still with the principal author ( personal communication ) . |
| 4 | The argument about whether the monster existed could not be settled without preliminary discussion about what in general a monster was . |
| 5 | But if firms perceive that a deviation will be followed by renegotiation rather than punishment this means that punishment would never be carried out , and so agreement to collude could not be reached in the first place . |
| 6 | The moral consequences we have drawn from awareness of how someone else feels could not be derived from the mere knowledge that he is suffering and needs my help . |
| 7 | The Directorate of Public Service Management dismissed an estimated 12,000 strikers on Nov. 6 , after some 60,000 to 70,000 government and public-sector workers had taken industrial action in support of a 154 per cent wage rise , originally agreed between the National Amalgamated Union and the government , but which government officials now said could not be met in view of the budget deficit . |
| 8 | ‘ It will be useless to observe to the Society that it is of the greatest importance to procure a place as soon as possible , if the Professor is not enabled to begin his Lectures by Christmas ( 1791 ) the establishment will be put off for one year — the Zootomy being strictly the first part he is to begin to teach to the pupils , which everyone knows could not be attempted in the Summer — and it would be feared too long a delay might hurt the success of the establishment . ’ |
| 9 | 2 In an effort to achieve this , she began a series of charcoal drawings on inexpensive white paper , which make it clear that what she was feeling could not be expressed with traditional , representational imagery . |