Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] could not be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under strain for a start because it was technically ill-equipped to avert disaster or to cope with the consequences when disaster struck ; under strain from commercial pressures which , as the inquiry puts it , ‘ compromised ’ safety ; under strain above all because the people on the spot could n't or would n't cope , were weary from gruesome working hours ( the senior signal technician who heads the list of the culpable had had only one day off in the past 13 weeks ) , lacked adequate training , or simply could n't be bothered . |
| 2 | Yet women , of my generation were the first to have the chance to refuse burdens that just could n't be borne , to understand that it was possible to refuse them without censure , to realise that if you still could n't have everything , you could at least make some choices about what you could have . |
| 3 | What , indeed , might he discover except ills that he still could not remedy , and wounds — both hers and his — that still could not be healed ? |
| 4 | The long muted voice of Nizan , unfashionable for almost twenty years , began speaking again with an urgency and topicality that simply could not be ignored . |
| 5 | Secondly , we set about drawing attention , nationally and locally , to a threatened church that simply could not be described as being redundant , having a weekly congregation of over 1,500 worshippers ! |
| 6 | Be managed to elude our bird because he was running inside a wire retaining fence and so could n't be grabbed by the deadly talons . |
| 7 | Histamine at concentrations greater than 10 - 6 M were shown to affect the viability of the cells in the in vitro culture system and so could not be examined satisfactorily . |
| 8 | They had referred to all the relevant authorities and had properly understood the principles and so could not be said to have erred in law . |
| 9 | The only real snag was that venues were posted in advance to assist the spectators and so could not be changed to suit the prevailing weather conditions . |
| 10 | Thus , the Jews lacked a common language and territory and so could not be counted as a nation . |
| 11 | For example there were evident differences in lexical incidence between items which had been thought to belong to the same phonological set ; get and never in contemporary Belfast vernacular did not pattern in the same way as items such as wet and wedding , and so could not be considered as tokens of the variable ( Ε ) ( see further 6.7 ) . |
| 12 | A proportion of the cells without Bcl-2 died before undergoing division , as previously described , and thus could not be scored . |
| 13 | that some of the material on the computerised systems in question met the statutory definition of records and thus could not be destroyed without the approval of the Archivist . |
| 14 | At the time of the institution of the main proceedings , the applicants ' 95 fishing vessels failed to satisfy one or more of the conditions for registration under section 14 of the Act of 1988 and thus could not be registered in the new register . |
| 15 | It 's just and it 's so , it 's like it was raining the other day when we went to go out and just could not be bothered . |
| 16 | The point about quality was that it should not and probably could not be confined . |
| 17 | ‘ Although the data often contained grammatical sequences several words long ( e.g. ME ABOUT BEEF ) , which would have made highly reliable predictors , these sequences seldom corresponded to complete templates and hence could not be detected by the precomputed production conditions . |
| 18 | The most obvious flaw seemed to be that ‘ objects ’ and ‘ desirable regions ’ were almost never visually primitive constructions and hence could not be recovered … without additional specialised knowledge . |
| 19 | Emily Davison and friends such as Mary Leigh , Rose Lamartine Yates , Elinor Penn-Gaskell , Edith Mansell-Moullin , Mabel Capper , and Gladys Evans represented the socialist and pacifist opposition within the WSPU : women who were nationally known and admired and consequently could not be banished from the organization . |
| 20 | It should be visited only before about 8am , or after 5pm when the light is at its best , and certainly could n't be photographed successfully at any other time . |
| 21 | Primarily , however , an empirically based study of public order policing is impossible to undertake in the midst of the province 's continuing violent conflict , and certainly could not be done with the degree of depth , empirical focus , familiarity , and , frankly , personal safety which an ethnographic study of routine policing allows . |
| 22 | However , the truncated conveyance would not then be " an instrument by which property is conveyed or transferred from one party to a marriage to the other " within the Finance Act 1985 , s83 and therefore could not be certified by the husband as being within category " H " of the Regulations . |
| 23 | The government stated that Baquerizo faced trial on charges of " acting against the state 's legal order " and therefore could not be released . |
| 24 | A number of attempts to sue experts reached the law reports in the years before 1975 , but they invariably met the answer that the experts were " quasi-arbitrators " and therefore could not be sued . |
| 25 | Its purpose is chiefly to add entries for new words and new meanings of words : ‘ new ’ implying that they came into existence , or came to the attention of scholars , after the relevant part of OED was published , and therefore could not be inserted in the main work . |
| 26 | Embarrassment at the lack of results was brushed off by pointing out that the social sciences were new , and therefore could not be expected to achieve the theoretical power of the natural sciences straight away . |
| 27 | This occurred , he believed , despite the household 's ‘ sufficiency of income ’ and therefore could not be attributed to the same causes as ‘ primary poverty ’ . |
| 28 | Many of the substances which Hahnemann used homoeopathically were known poisons and therefore could not be administered safely to patients in large doses . |