Example sentences of "[pers pn] could not be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is easy to see what the sceptic will say at this point , quite apart from the implied oddity that there is a claim which I could not be justified in making but which another can be justified in making for me . |
| 2 | The point is that if I could not be distinguished from others in some way , then the utterance ‘ It 's me ’ would be useless . |
| 3 | After all , I could not be punished for the death of Victor Frankenstein if he was not dead . |
| 4 | In Howard E. Perry & Co . Ltd. v. B.R.B. it was held that the defendants ' refusal to allow the plaintiffs to enter their premises to collect goods which belonged to them could not be justified by their fear of intensified industrial action . |
| 5 | I have sometimes gone into it when the King was absent from Delhi and once pretty far I thought , for the purpose of giving my advice in the case of a great lady so ill that she could not be moved to the outward gate ; but a Kachemire shawl covered my head , hanging like a large scarfe down to my feet , and a eunuch led me by the hand , as if I had been a blind man . |
| 6 | She could not be issued with a warrant for her visit . |
| 7 | Once she had accepted that she could not be buried in King Tut 's pyramid with her possessions heaped around her , she positively relished broadcasting who was to get what ‘ after I 'm gone ’ . |
| 8 | By stating her views on the way out she could not be accused of empire building on her own behalf . |
| 9 | A High Court judge on Friday made Gemma a ward of court and ruled that she could not be approached by the media . |
| 10 | And we could not be accused of complacency . |
| 11 | If we compare two twelfth-century texts , such as the Peterborough continuation of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ( East Midland ) and Layamon 's Brut ( South-west Midland ) , we could not be blamed for believing that they are in different languages . |
| 12 | Whatever the overall trend , the steps from one class to the next were so abrupt that they could not be explained by gradual transmutation . |
| 13 | Didier Pironi told me they were about to leave the circuit for a hotel to meet in private where they could not be coerced by their bosses and , as it happens , along with a half-dozen other early colleagues , my car was well placed to follow the bus as it drove off . |
| 14 | While another woman would have had hysterics all over him because of the rain and his wound , Isabel had had enough presence of mind to realise they could not be followed in such inclement weather . |
| 15 | The Basque provinces , though they could not be taxed at will , were persuaded by Philip and his successors to provide the monarchy with considerable sums in the form of free gifts ( servicios ) . |
| 16 | When he got to Bec , Anselm at once spotted his quality , and he was soon sending back to Lanfranc a glowing account of Osbern 's progress : he was ‘ growing daily in knowledge and serenity ’ ; and the friendship between him and Anselm had become so close that they could not be separated without tearing their two souls apart . |
| 17 | It is possible for example that time-gap experiences simply reflect events which were so banal that they could not be distinguished from other memories for similar previous driving . |
| 18 | The in-between bits — what some call life — seemed by such standards to be so much waste of time , which they could not be done with fast enough . |
| 19 | Archaeological evidence shows that occupation of the lowlands in the last 3000 years was achieved by long-range dispersals from the north-west of groups with three ceramic traditions , though these declined in complexity as they could not be sustained by the terra firme environment . |
| 20 | As access to the gall bladder is rarely possible after gall stone clearance , it seemed that , until recently , they could not be studied in patients with complete gall stone dissolution . |
| 21 | They could not be overcome by altering the organization of the world . |
| 22 | He acted out of moral considerations yet they could not be regarded as principles in the Kantian sense because they were principles or considerations involved in what Winch calls ‘ ‘ the perspective' ’ of the action' . |
| 23 | If they could not be enlightened by persuasion it must be done by force . |
| 24 | My Bill would establish a new constitutional settlement for Scotland , create a Parliament with a fixed four-year term , provide for elections by a system of proportional representation , establish a Bill of Rights , create the office of ombudsman , give to the Parliament revenue-raising responsibility , entrench these arrangements in such a way that they could not be changed without the consent of both the Westminster and Scottish Parliaments and provide that all Scottish domestic affairs should be the responsibility of a Parliament sitting in Edinburgh , reserving foreign affairs , defence and large-scale economics to Westminster . |
| 25 | They could not be let into it , but there was a duty to entertain them , and , as I was told , not to stare . |
| 26 | Before he became Home Secretary Morrison had argued that the best way for Jews to prevent anti-semitism was to ensure that they could not be blamed for social injustices in areas where they lived . |
| 27 | The function of underwriters was to commit themselves before the issue to buy the bonds at a set minimum price , if they could not be sold by the managing group at a price above this minimum . |
| 28 | Although from about 10 June , troops were transferred southward to Brusilov 's aid , they could not be carried in sufficient numbers to provide the necessary support to maintain his attack or greatly to affect its outcome . |
| 29 | But the temptations of the Flesh were different : they could not be dealt with in cold blood . |
| 30 | They could not be expected to be automatically loyal . |