Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] could not be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just could n't be bothered . |
| 2 | well that 's a a place like Morecambe I just could n't be bothered . |
| 3 | Well I did n't because I just could n't be bothered to put the oven on to get as hot as that for such short period of time . |
| 4 | I really could n't be bothered . |
| 5 | What I , what er , I in fact , what , what I did notice in that time that I was there , was that er , when you talk about the old guard , the young people , anybody under forty er they were a little bit cynical about this communism lark and Lenin and the rest of it , they all went to say , they would all go to Lenin 's er statue and in effect have a blessing from Lenin , we went along with them on one occasion , very pleased to do it , but you you got the impression that the younger generation were already in 1982 and the people now that are out there with Yeltsin were shying away from communism , now the thing is this that Gorbachev came along in my opinion exactly at the right time and tried to move things a little our way a little way from the hardline , which obviously could n't be sustained . |
| 6 | And today is the hundredth anniversary of Erwin Panofsky 's birth , which really could not be ignored . |
| 7 | The Securitate had a department devoted to analysing the rumours in circulation and putting out its own to promote the regime 's purposes , which often could not be publicly stated . |
| 8 | Most controversially he announced sweeping cuts in commodity subsidies which he said were unavoidable as government subsidies on wheat and petrol had previously amounted to £S1,000 million and £S7,700 million respectively , which simply could not be sustained . |
| 9 | The theoretical advance demanded further physical evidence which simply could not be collected with the technology then available to researchers . |
| 10 | There are many houses which simply could not be brought up to standard … |
| 11 | One of the two third prizes was awarded to Sir Anthony Milbank for the Barningham estates , County Durham , who also could not be present . |
| 12 | Mary said she really could not be bothered . |
| 13 | To converse with the doctor she would have to speak with unnatural care and lucidity , and she really could n't be bothered . |
| 14 | Location is fairly important to a hotel in London , and you really could n't be in a more convenient spot . |
| 15 | Corbett had been alone with her for five minutes when she died , but Mr Justice McKinnon told the jury ’ You simply could not be sure that in the short time Danielle was under his control he caused her death . |
| 16 | There are examples of officers whose promotion was clearly desired by their superiors who yet could not be advanced . |
| 17 | ‘ Well ’ Louise laughed , ‘ you certainly could n't be mistaken for anything other than Nora Simpson 's daughter , there 's no doubt about that , but to be fair , my sweet , you 've both had a lot to contend with . |
| 18 | One here and one there could n't be one . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They could not be offending the Gruagach , and they especially could not be offending Goibniu the Greediguzzler . |
| 21 | Release to college was , it was said , out of the question : they just could not be spared . |
| 22 | The hurts of the last years run so deep they just could not be solved with AT&T involved . |
| 23 | They just could n't be bothered half the time . |
| 24 | Granted that senior army officers , like Sir William , were used to handling men and making decisions , they still could n't be expected to understand what was involved in a tricky investigation , be able to discuss tactics . |
| 25 | In a study attempting to utilise the theory , Cressey ( 1953 ) concluded that they probably could not be . |
| 26 | And they certainly could n't be called poor , living in this house . |
| 27 | They certainly could n't be overheard , but in that crowd anybody could be watching them . |
| 28 | She loved this man , and he seemed determined , because of some misplaced sense of responsibility , to keep them together , yet she was trying to make him see that it just could n't be — for his own sake . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But he had left soon after , so maybe there was n't a good reason ; maybe he just could n't be taught anything . |