Example sentences of "something [conj] [vb mod] not be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was shouting at someone or something that could not be seen . |
| 2 | Yeah , I think that we need to look into more depth the issue of the County Farms estate , we agreed from the start it was something that could not be rushed , and we had to , the principle question that needed to be answered was that was there a viability for County Farms or role for County Farms in the nineteen nineties . |
| 3 | She had a lump in her throat and an enormous yearning to say something beautiful to her father , something that could not be expressed by words , and so without quite knowing how it happened she suddenly turned her head and with a smile tossed out her arm in the air , easily , flowing , as if to see each other many more times . |
| 4 | It is something that can not be explained away . |
| 5 | I do not mean , of course , that it was something that can not be explained yet , but rather that it was something of which no explanation can conceivably be found . |
| 6 | This allows a large number of variations in style to be incorporated into a single page , something that can not be achieved with digitised fonts as these , by definition , are of a fixed size and style . |
| 7 | The difficulty with defining God is that the theist is perfectly entitled to claim that ‘ God ’ refers to something that can not be known in the way that other things are known . |
| 8 | This is something that can not be left to the dub because we will see the wind from the propellers buffeting the actors . |
| 9 | The right book becomes something passionately possessed ( ‘ mine ! ’ ) , something that can not be read too often , the text being treated with an almost academic concern for accuracy . |
| 10 | This is something that can not be taken for granted , as with the best will in the World , even the most expert goldfish keeper will suffer equipment failures etc. in his or her absence which can , during hot weather for example , lead to loss of fish or triggering off disease . |
| 11 | They try to manage for themselves something that can not be managed , but needs only to be accepted with proper gratitude and clear insight into the nature of the giver . |