Example sentences of "[adv] could not be [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Swedish Prime Minister , Carl Bildt , justly complained that ‘ membership has unspecified potential obligations ’ , and that Sweden thus could not be expected to make binding assurances that she would participate in a common defence policy which has not yet been defined . |
| 4 | His sort of realism just could not be expected to compete with that of the gangster film and especially now with that being offered by James Cagney . |
| 5 | Well I did n't because I just could n't be bothered to put the oven on to get as hot as that for such short period of time . |
| 6 | Granted that senior army officers , like Sir William , were used to handling men and making decisions , they still could n't be expected to understand what was involved in a tricky investigation , be able to discuss tactics . |
| 7 | What he also could n't be expected to know ( and thank goodness he did n't ) , was how much more morally devastating were the V1 and V2 buzz bombs and rockets when they started falling on London soon after D-Day . |
| 8 | While Ross was fighting to save his business — rather like David against Goliath — he really could n't be expected to deal with the boringly mundane but nevertheless important work of running the apartment as efficiently as possible . |
| 9 | They decided that Pilger , Hayling and the journalists simply could n't be bothered to make the move . |
| 10 | 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 . |