Example sentences of "[pers pn] could not [be] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though they were spoken for my benefit , I could not be assumed to share the same norms . |
| 2 | I was reminding the golfing spirits that I could not be caught napping . |
| 3 | Under her contract of employment Mrs Lee was ‘ not mobile ’ ( i.e. she could not be required to move ) and the employer had committed a fundamental breach of the contract . |
| 4 | He or she could not be expected to emerge simply as the result of exposure to the properly approved values , though such exposure was crucial , hence the importance of suitable club workers , in particular those with a public-school background . |
| 5 | He 'd made it abundantly clear that Hari was of no account in the community , that she could not be trusted to carry any weight with lawyers and the like . |
| 6 | Told by the judge , Lord Coulsfield , that she could not be compelled to testify , Heather Hepburn , 29 , of Argyll Street , Alloa , said she was willing to give evidence . |
| 7 | ‘ You could not be expected to foresee how he would turn out . ’ |
| 8 | We could not be bothered arguing with him . ’ |
| 9 | It is also to agree that they could not be said to represent the mass of unskilled working people . |
| 10 | In which case they could not be said to have decided the issue for themselves , let alone for others . |
| 11 | In 1910 few Liberals had argued for Home Rule in their election addresses or speeches , so they could not be said to have a clear mandate for it . |
| 12 | My own opinion — for what it is worth in view of the two cases above referred to — is that trustees are the proper persons to be assessed in all cases in which the income of the trust estate received by them , or to which they are entitled , is not tax-deducted at source ; and that — in the case of income of the trust estate which is tax deducted at source — they could not be heard to ask repayment of the tax on the plea that the income did not arise or accrue to them but to others , whether such others were income-beneficiaries or capital-beneficiaries . |
| 13 | They could not be seen telling stories : it looked daft . |
| 14 | But they could not be compelled to do so . |
| 15 | Nonetheless the Conservatives ' opposition to Beveridge disillusioned many people who felt they could not be trusted to implement the report , regardless of any promises they might make . |
| 16 | In the past , many students were so petrified about stalling that they could not be persuaded to hold off properly for the landing . |
| 17 | Children below school leaving age would also be excluded as they could not be expected to live independently in the community in any case . |
| 18 | In fact in its original Hebrew setting the shepherd referred to a totally different picture — one who actually cared for and was perhaps even prepared to give his life for the sheep , protecting them from very real danger from which they could not be expected to protect themselves . |
| 19 | Because we had evidence that memories of the exercise tended to fade quickly , it was decided to exclude schools which had submitted reports at the very earliest stage ( autumn 1980 to summer 1981 ) , and schools which were not due to submit reports until the last stage of the first cycle ( autumn 1985 to early 1986 ) were also excluded because they could not be expected to have made much of a start on the process . |
| 20 | In diplomatic exchanges , at least , the French accepted American reservations about unregenerate colonialism in Vietnam although , as the French pointed out , they could not be expected to assist in or condone the establishment of a government of Vietnam which would not follow democratic principles ‘ as these are understood in the West ’ . |
| 21 | The technical nature of the work meant that they could not be expected to check it had been satisfactorily done . |
| 22 | In addition , some lords , both ecclesiastical and secular , were privileged ( privilegiati ) in that they could not be forced to transfer their allegiance to another lord against their will . |
| 23 | It was in the interests of the Great Powers that they could not be held bound by a treaty to which they had not formally become a party while , as will be seen , a number of the exceptions to the classic rule enabled them to impose their will upon weaker entities . |
| 24 | Much would depend on the exact state of affairs in Ireland and something would depend on the success of the Progressive parties in patching up a new electoral pact ( although after the events of 1912 and 1913 it could not be expected to work as well as in 1910 ) , but all of these factors would operate in the broad context of a probable Unionist victory . |
| 25 | It could not be allowed to represent the nation in arms . |
| 26 | Furthermore , its spire could not exceed thirty feet — it could not be allowed to dominate the Protestant church at the northern entrance to Carewstown . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | Thus , because the taxpayer could not be said to control the trustees , he could not be said to have control over the application of the income within s742(e) . |
| 29 | The irritating thing is , he could not be bothered to put the sandwich down during the whole scene , and when she surfaced , she found his lip dripping with tomato seeds . |
| 30 | Besides , he could not be bothered to re-write it . |