Example sentences of "[coord] could not be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remaining fighters , which were down for maintenance and could not be made airworthy in time , were wrecked when a hangar door blew down on top of them . |
| 2 | It turns out that we went far enough with [ an experimental project ] to determine that , unfortunately , it was going to be too expensive and could not be made large enough to approach the market as a whole . |
| 3 | He said he had always worked for the benefit of his country and could not be held responsible for how the hard currency he procured was spent by its leaders . |
| 4 | He said he had always worked for the benefit of his country and could not be held responsible for how the hard currency he procured was spent by its leaders . |
| 5 | At common law the employer did not guarantee the safety of the equipment and could not be held liable for latent defects in the equipment which could not be discovered with reasonable care . |
| 6 | At common law the employer did not guarantee the safety of the equipment and could not be held liable for a latent defect in it . |
| 7 | Subsidies might be paid in cases of emergency but could not be accounted normal income . |