Example sentences of "therefore could not [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any increase in these standards therefore could not be resolved by any earthbound human being . |
| 2 | Individual popes therefore could not be reformed . |
| 3 | Many of the substances which Hahnemann used homoeopathically were known poisons and therefore could not be administered safely to patients in large doses . |
| 4 | Its purpose is chiefly to add entries for new words and new meanings of words : ‘ new ’ implying that they came into existence , or came to the attention of scholars , after the relevant part of OED was published , and therefore could not be inserted in the main work . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This occurred , he believed , despite the household 's ‘ sufficiency of income ’ and therefore could not be attributed to the same causes as ‘ primary poverty ’ . |
| 7 | Was this due to a failure of prediction — or to a failure to see that the word had ‘ dd ’ in the middle and therefore could not be ‘ happened ’ ? |
| 8 | Until the time for felling , it therefore could not be said which trees were within the contract . |
| 9 | The government stated that Baquerizo faced trial on charges of " acting against the state 's legal order " and therefore could not be released . |
| 10 | A number of attempts to sue experts reached the law reports in the years before 1975 , but they invariably met the answer that the experts were " quasi-arbitrators " and therefore could not be sued . |
| 11 | However , the truncated conveyance would not then be " an instrument by which property is conveyed or transferred from one party to a marriage to the other " within the Finance Act 1985 , s83 and therefore could not be certified by the husband as being within category " H " of the Regulations . |