Example sentences of "they could not be [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Builder complained that it was difficult to identify the separate sets of drawings and there were also complaints about the lack of light , while some drawings , like Scott 's principal view , were placed so high that they could not be seen properly . |
| 2 | On May 31 President Ramiz Alia appealed in the People 's Assembly for patience : the strikers ' demands were just but they could not be met immediately , he said . |
| 3 | Given the conditions in which most teachers are working , and given that they are human beings — that is , they have limitations on what they can do , and how well and how fast they can do it — they could not be feeling otherwise than rushed and confused , nor acting otherwise than fallibly . |
| 4 | They could not be forced away , but came on in ever greater numbers , shrilling with pain and anger . |
| 5 | Children grew disobedient when they knew that they could not be set aside : farmers were ousted of their leases made by tenants in tail ; for , if such leases had been valid , then under colour of long leases the issue might have been virtually disinherited : creditors were defrauded of their debts ; for , if tenant in tail could have charged his estate with their payment , he might also have defeated his issue , by mortgaging it for as much as it was worth : innumerable latent entails were produced to deprive purchasers of the lands they had fairly bought ; of suits in consequence of which our antient books are full : and treasons were encouraged ; as estates-tail were not liable to forfeiture , longer than for the tenant 's life . |
| 6 | Yet how many times have Deborah or her brothers and sisters been refused secondment on the ground that they could not be spared either because ‘ there was no money ’ or because Peter , who could very thankfully be released , was sent off instead . |
| 7 | This was because with the older gliders like the T21 or T31 , the wings were very high and they could not be held securely except by keeping one wing low . |
| 8 | Thus if the rules really were letter-sound rules , they could not be used successfully with such non-words , because there are not single letters corresponding to each of the sounds in the non-word . |