Example sentences of "[conj] he could not [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His talks were confined to broadcasts , where he could not be seen . |
| 2 | But although he could not be said to have reached any hard-and-fast conclusions to this question , so fearful were the prospects of this supposed evolutionary degeneration that Karl Pearson took refuge ( and a certain amount of comfort ) in the fact that its results were far away : ‘ Happily , what the distant future of the world may be is a matter that does not much concern us , and about which we may rejoice to know nothing . ’ |
| 3 | The misleading of the Commons by ministers , the deliberate absence from Britain of the Master of Elibank ( so that he could not be questioned ) , and the evasions of the Prime Minister all created the suspicion that something was wrong and Unionists were perfectly justified in their attempts to find out what it was . |
| 4 | Reading right-wing papers also made people more inclined to believe the Conservative Party had convincing policies and was likely to keep its promises , that Kinnock was neither decisive , nor trustworthy , nor a good leader of a team , and especially that he could not be relied upon to stand up for British interests against the USSR . |
| 5 | When this was first pointed out to the ambassador , he said that he could not be sued for libel since he possessed diplomatic immunity . |
| 6 | Gore apparently did not want his name on the cover of the book and wished for it to be published by the Canadian fascist , Arcand , so that he could not be sued . |
| 7 | The dons felt that he could not be trusted : that he was populist , bullying , showy , and hostile to them . |
| 8 | Although Crawford was one of the few Test cricketers to play in spectacles it would seem that his eyesight was not so poor that he could not be used by the military . |
| 9 | In a third serving of a bankruptcy notice in 1911 , Wilson claimed not only that the Federation had inspired the plaintiff , a seaman called Nielsen , to take the action , but that they had moved the plaintiff from place to place so that he could not be found , making it impossible to discharge the union 's debt to him . |
| 10 | It is he who must answer before Parliament for anything that his officials have done under his authority , and , if for an important matter he selected an official of such junior standing that he could not be expected competently to perform the work , the minister would have to answer for that in Parliament . |
| 11 | Lord Whitelaw said that he could not be associated with ‘ the very extreme views which he has expressed ’ . |
| 12 | A physically brave man ( he was a noted wrestler and had instructed Harry Pascoe in the art at one time ) he was doctrinally circumspect , so he conducted the marriage service in such a way that he could not be labelled as either a papist or a puritan . |
| 13 | It has been suggested that Biggs does not possess the heart but when so badly cut that he could not be allowed more than one more round he went back out and stopped David Bey . |
| 14 | Sharpe was holding his own sword low beside his stirrup , almost as if he could not be bothered to fight . |
| 15 | It was certainly true that the brother in question had known all too well what he was about , and there was small doubt left as to who he must be , but he could not be accused without witness . |
| 16 | He waited at the house until the bride and groom arrived but he could not be persuaded to enter the house . |
| 17 | To be more precise : the active working-class militant or potential leader must be by definition an ‘ agitator ’ , since he could not be fitted into the stereotype of obedience , dullness and stupidity . |
| 18 | The plot is a revenge drama — the film 's title is fairly self-explanatory — and has a hand-me-down Jacobean tragedy feel to it , though he could not be accused of copying the richness of the language . |
| 19 | Thus his freedom to father children was subject to the law , even though he could not be allowed to know that he was under restriction . |