Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] could not be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The right wing candidate does not make himself available for interview and could not be contacted over the weekend . |
| 2 | The remaining fighters , which were down for maintenance and could not be made airworthy in time , were wrecked when a hangar door blew down on top of them . |
| 3 | ‘ Two of the zombis collapsed upon their return and could not be revived . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ Only the Queen is above the law and could not be subpoenaed . ’ |
| 5 | At common law the employer did not guarantee the safety of the equipment and could not be held liable for latent defects in the equipment which could not be discovered with reasonable care . |
| 6 | At common law the employer did not guarantee the safety of the equipment and could not be held liable for a latent defect in it . |
| 7 | It was considered for use as a barricade but could not be moved without detaching the wings and was therefore left intact ( Corrects September FlyPast ) . |
| 8 | Even with the new heating , warmth was hard to get : two years later the chapter struggled to find firewood for the canons since other fuel could not be got ; and a defective boiler in the cathedral was made in Germany and could not be mended . |
| 9 | Hall told the meeting that these matters had been settled by Parliament and could not be altered . |
| 10 | If war broke out in the Far East ‘ our present forces in Korea would be a military liability and could not be maintained there without substantial reinforcement prior to the initiation of hostilities ’ . |
| 11 | The rockets had been damaged by allied bombing raids during the Gulf war and could not be moved to the main destruction site at Muthana , where most of the other 45,000 chemical warheads had been transported . |
| 12 | The cost was exclusively for the benefit of the business and could not be carried forward in the accounts as an asset after the lease expired . |
| 13 | Because this had been stated in the debate , Mr Sproat explained , it had legal standing and could not be overturned at a later date . |
| 14 | Her doctor was busy ministering to the injured and dying victims of the bombers and could not be called to help Julia . |
| 15 | The defendants successfully applied to the English court for this service to be set aside on the grounds that personal service by the agent of a foreign litigant without the approval of the Swiss authorities was a criminal offence under the Swiss Penal Code and could not be regarded as valid service , as no English court could authorise service which was contrary to the internal law of the country in which service was to be effected . |
| 16 | Before 1 a.m. , he was noted missing from his beat and could not be found . |
| 17 | This meant that characters acquired by the adult body could not be incorporated into the germ plasm and could not be inherited . |
| 18 | He ruled that Mr Egelstedt could stay in Britain , but because of the law he became a visitor and could not be called an au pair . |
| 19 | Charles Tennant ( 1768–1838 ) was the sixth son of old John Tennant and could not be employed on Glenconner Farm . |
| 20 | In addition , 24 response sheets were returned because the user had changed address and could not be contacted either by the agency concerned and/or the user 's family . |
| 21 | This was firmly rejected by the House of Lords : discretion was vested in the Minister to further the policy of the legislation and could not be thwarted by ministerial misconstruction of the legislation . |
| 22 | 6 Corporate systems must be aligned to support TQM : Two of the great pioneers of total quality management , Edwards Deming and J.H. Juran , whose work had great influence on Japanese companies after the Second World War , discovered that quality problems were usually built into the design of production processes and could not be attributed to the ill-will or incompetence of workers . |
| 23 | Mr Fowler added that in the Government 's even-handed approach to employment , people would have the right to belong to a union and could not be excluded from a job on the grounds that they were trade unionists . |
| 24 | If Zuwaya disliked policemen as a category , and took pride in not being related to any , that was in part because in the past ordinary people got their main experience of corruption and venality in the first instance from the police , and that reputation stuck ; and partly also because they recognized that policemen had divided loyalties and could not be trusted to be loyal exclusively to their kinsmen . |
| 25 | Accordingly the court decided that VAT was payable on these charges and could not be reclaimed from Customs and Excise if the customer did not show up to claim the room . |
| 26 | I am saying that Lord Justice Woolf , who produced an authoritative report on prison riots and the improvement of prison conditions — admittedly , a report that does not recommend the one thing that the Home Secretary has chosen to do , but a report which the Home Secretary wrongly described as comprehensive — draws attention time after time to the simple fact that all prisons that rioted in 1990 and were the subject of the inquiry were so overcrowded that many of the proper duties that prisons should perform were not being and could not be performed . |
| 27 | In any case , such a standardisation exercise would be an enormous project and could not be imposed in practice , and many decisions would remain essentially arbitrary . |
| 28 | He said he had always worked for the benefit of his country and could not be held responsible for how the hard currency he procured was spent by its leaders . |
| 29 | He said he had always worked for the benefit of his country and could not be held responsible for how the hard currency he procured was spent by its leaders . |
| 30 | For example , the rate criterion for tachycardia detection could be chosen only by request from the factory and could not be altered after implantation . |