Example sentences of "[adv] could not be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its intentions were not borne out , perhaps could not be borne out , because it attempted to find a niche within a competitive industry without engaging in the sort of competition which guaranteed its rivals , success . |
| 2 | Since the monarch obviously could not be subjected to a direct barrage of demand from all comers , certain informal roads to royal favour came to be established , controlled by gate-keepers with access to the sovereign . |
| 3 | To glamorise the whole thing ( the car obviously could not be kept at the camp ) , it was kept in some out-of-the-way garage , possibly in Aston Clinton , which was the nearest village to the camp at Halton . |
| 4 | Later that night , drinking champagne at the first night party , he gave me his usual disclaimers ; how it was all an illusion , everything was an illusion , all life was an illusion , and how he , Sir Tom , was the master of illusion , but how his dear children were real because they alone could not be spawned from the imagination . |
| 5 | He took the view that her consent alone could not be retracted since it was given for all time as part of the contract of marriage . |
| 6 | They could not be offending the Gruagach , and they especially could not be offending Goibniu the Greediguzzler . |
| 7 | Thus , the Jews lacked a common language and territory and so could not be counted as a nation . |
| 8 | They had referred to all the relevant authorities and had properly understood the principles and so could not be said to have erred in law . |
| 9 | For example there were evident differences in lexical incidence between items which had been thought to belong to the same phonological set ; get and never in contemporary Belfast vernacular did not pattern in the same way as items such as wet and wedding , and so could not be considered as tokens of the variable ( Ε ) ( see further 6.7 ) . |
| 10 | The only real snag was that venues were posted in advance to assist the spectators and so could not be changed to suit the prevailing weather conditions . |
| 11 | Histamine at concentrations greater than 10 - 6 M were shown to affect the viability of the cells in the in vitro culture system and so could not be examined satisfactorily . |
| 12 | Therefore , it was not property " belonging to another " , and so could not be subject to theft . |
| 13 | In the second place , Mr. Glick for the revenue pointed out that in the State Trials report , 20 St.Tr. 239 , it appeared that the Crown did not suggest that if the duty was not payable in law it nevertheless could not be recovered . |
| 14 | A proportion of the cells without Bcl-2 died before undergoing division , as previously described , and thus could not be scored . |
| 15 | At the time of the institution of the main proceedings , the applicants ' 95 fishing vessels failed to satisfy one or more of the conditions for registration under section 14 of the Act of 1988 and thus could not be registered in the new register . |
| 16 | The existence of distinct geographical provinces thus could not be explained in terms of climate . |
| 17 | The Swedish Prime Minister , Carl Bildt , justly complained that ‘ membership has unspecified potential obligations ’ , and that Sweden thus could not be expected to make binding assurances that she would participate in a common defence policy which has not yet been defined . |
| 18 | that some of the material on the computerised systems in question met the statutory definition of records and thus could not be destroyed without the approval of the Archivist . |
| 19 | The system of personalised in-bureau training that has been described above could not be sustained and developed without the two-tier system of area training officers supported by area tutors and many in-bureau tutors . |
| 20 | Release to college was , it was said , out of the question : they just could not be spared . |
| 21 | We were not surprised that our son just could not be bothered . |
| 22 | His sort of realism just could not be expected to compete with that of the gangster film and especially now with that being offered by James Cagney . |
| 23 | The hurts of the last years run so deep they just could not be solved with AT&T involved . |
| 24 | This man just could not be real ! |
| 25 | Senior civil servants just could not be caught burgling cottages ; Army officers had perhaps a more flexible public image . |
| 26 | It does n't in any way claim to be an absolutely up to the minute report of absolutely everything that we 've done in the previously twelve months since last Congress , and quite frankly , it just could not be that . |
| 27 | It 's just and it 's so , it 's like it was raining the other day when we went to go out and just could not be bothered . |
| 28 | By the end of the nineteenth century , children under school-leaving age effectively could not be contributing J wage to the household economy and had become very clearly a net drain on resources . |
| 29 | To share a little could not be other than beneficial to the recipient 's soul ! ’ |
| 30 | Thus the finding of a series of coins terminating in about 150 BC could not be used as evidence that the occupation of a site ceased in about that year , for even if occupation had continued for another hundred years , no other coins would have been available to be used and lost . |