Example sentences of "could not [adv] [verb] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tribunal will only allow a trader 's appeal against such a direction if it considers that Customs could not reasonably have been satisfied : for example , if Customs have ignored a relevant matter or if they have taken an irrelevant matter into account . |
| 2 | If at the time of making the contract , the buyer was unaware , and could not reasonably have been aware , of the gravity of the defect , then the court would probably hold that the condition as to merchantable quality was implied . |
| 3 | It was an existence conducted as if in poverty , but my adoptive parents could not actually have been poor ; still , it was ruled by insistences on not wasting , on eating everything up , on being grateful , on saving light and water . |
| 4 | He could not possibly have been confident that McKenna would refuse : the former Chancellor 's three days of hesitation is proof against this . |
| 5 | By our definitions , she could n't possibly have been alive . ’ |