Example sentences of "[conj] could [not/n't] be [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then again , is there any day in rugby that could n't be brightened by the sunshine talent of Campese , rugby union 's first superstar and a man with a sidestep to match Fred Astaire 's ? |
| 2 | These were considerations that could not be ignored by a Conservative leader , Austen Chamberlain had been toppled in 1922 because he had not withdrawn from an unpopular coalition in time ; and one of the motives for the destruction of the Lloyd George coalition was a desire to replace it by a protectionist government . |
| 3 | There was a question that could not be answered by students outside London because |
| 4 | She had a lump in her throat and an enormous yearning to say something beautiful to her father , something that could not be expressed by words , and so without quite knowing how it happened she suddenly turned her head and with a smile tossed out her arm in the air , easily , flowing , as if to see each other many more times . |
| 5 | Whilst desktop publishing at the low-end of the market may appear to be a careful juggling match between cost and quality of output , as indeed it is , the real determining factor about the suitability of the products is whether they actually provide some benefit that could not be achieved by other means . |
| 6 | Having purchased a very high quality/expensive combo ( Rivera S120 ) from the same shop , within the warranty period the combo went seriously wrong — a fault that could not be fixed by the shop ( even after faxing Paul Rivera in America ! ) . |
| 7 | All the stores that could not be moved by native porters or the gallant Timor ponies were destroyed on 22 February and the Company moved south into the mountains , from where they were able to watch an area of 300 square miles ( over 770km 2 ) , patrolling for negative reports as often as they made enemy sightings . |
| 8 | This difficulty in the court 's approach was addressed by Scott J in Balston Ltd v Headline Fitters Ltd [ 1987 ] FSR 330 who stated that Faccenda was not authority for the proposition that confidential information that could not be protected by an implied term ipso facto could not be protected by express agreement . |
| 9 | This was welcome news to those who sought a federal Europe , for the federalist implications of the dilemma were very clear : a European army would need European political control of a type that could not be provided by the EDC institutions . |
| 10 | Four of the 128 patients studied were excluded because H pylori was identified in histological specimens only and could not be confirmed by culture or CLO test . |
| 11 | While they were alone and could not be overheard by those inside the house , she once more broached the subject of his mother 's continued presence at the Manor . |
| 12 | Their use of subterfuge can be justified only to obtain material which ought to be published in the public interest and could not be obtained by other means . |
| 13 | If we tried to describe a theory of legislation sufficiently uncontroversial to command close to universal assent among our lawyers and judges , we would be limited to something like this : if the words of a statute admit of only one meaning , no matter in what context they are uttered , and if we have no reason to doubt that this is the meaning understood by all the legislators who voted for or against the statute or abstained , and the statute so understood achieves no results not intended by all those who voted for it and would be so understood by all the members of the public to whom it is addressed , and could not be thought by any sensible person To violate any of the substantive or procedural constraints of the Constitution , or otherwise offend any widely held view about fairness or efficiency in legislation , then the propositions contained in that statute , understood in that way , are part of the community 's law . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ a police officer should be grateful if he could point to a clear cut instruction that he was only to stop a meeting if some incident at the meeting itself , whether caused by the speaker and his supporters or by the opposition present at the meeting place , led him to suppose that disorder was inevitable and could not be averted by any other means . ’ |
| 16 | However , the head had at a previous meeting made the point that the self-appraisal reports were confidential and could not be read by other departments . |
| 17 | On being told that the men still unaccounted for could not be contacted by the trapped men , the Manager asked for a volunteer to go down from the surface and search inwards from the main shaft . |