Example sentences of "he [adv] could not be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he had left soon after , so maybe there was n't a good reason ; maybe he just could n't be taught anything . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And it had been little comfort to realise — since he clearly could n't be bothered to even make the effort to get in touch with her — that her marriage had obviously been a disastrous mistake from the very beginning . |
| 4 | He looked up as Corbett entered , smiled and half rose before slumping back into the seat again as if he really could not be bothered . |
| 5 | 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 . |