Example sentences of "[pron] could not [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't even be bothered to look where I was going . |
| 2 | I could n't realistically be rescued before tomorrow . |
| 3 | I could n't possibly be a governess all my life ! ’ |
| 4 | I could n't ever be a Toinette . |
| 5 | I could not even be considered . |
| 6 | By this time , my temperature and blood pressure was so high I could not even be given a proper anaesthetic . |
| 7 | However , a colleague looking at these OSUs in relation to their cultural impact , saw there were many aspects of a qualitative nature which could not easily be expressed in fiscal terms ( Adams 1988 : 11 ) : |
| 8 | I had mentioned the unquantifiable public relationships which could be generated during a secondment and argued for the intangible value of the many hundreds of contacts I had made which could not easily be costed in purely fiscal terms . |
| 9 | The Council became a genuinely learning process , and once the name of the game had been defined as aggiornamento , once ecumenical understanding and co-operation with other Christians had been moved from the presupposition of ‘ dangerous ’ to that of ‘ Christian ’ and ‘ highly desirable ’ , there developed for a while a new logic which could not easily be denied . |
| 10 | Right-wingers in Shamir 's Cabinet were understood to regard the pace of settlement building in the occupied territories as crucial in creating facts on the ground which could not easily be eliminated by developments at the diplomatic level [ see also p. 38550 ] . |
| 11 | It seems reasonable to assume , for instance , that he was — at least in part — influenced by the calculations of his own defence establishment from 1943 ( calculations which could not easily be challenged until the United States acquired nuclear weapons ) to the effect that the defeat of Germany must make the USSR the dominant military power in Europe . |
| 12 | It was on several different levels and had large rooms which could not easily be split . |
| 13 | At its most distinct , it includes work which could not physically be produced by a non-Disabled person ( for example , drawing as seen by someone with a specific visual impairment , or using muscle spasm to create a particular photographic quality ) . |
| 14 | However , there were even more terrible signs of this supposedly new streak of violent irritability to be found among the youth of working-class neighbourhoods , which could not even be justified on the grounds of over-enthusiastic jingo patriotism . |
| 15 | ‘ In all these circumstances I think that it is a proper inference that , in the case of each journey in question , the plaintiffs paid the money unwillingly and only because they apprehended on reasonable grounds that without the permit which could not otherwise be obtained officers acting under the authority of the State of New South Wales would or might stop the motor vehicle and refuse to allow it to proceed upon the journey . |
| 16 | Whilst an estimate of our fees has been given , additional costs may be required as a result of any material change in the assignment or difficulties in obtaining information which could not reasonably be foreseen and which caused additional work not included in the original estimate . |
| 17 | In its manifesto , the Ulster Unionist Party said : ‘ We can not accept as stable any system of governance which could not equally be applied to any other regional entity within the UK . ’ |
| 18 | The decisions made in 1968 and 1969 by Heseltine , then just appointed press secretary , and the equerry to Prince Charles , Squadron Leader David Checketts , opened a door which could not afterwards be closed . |
| 19 | Moreover , some agreements enabled local authorities to obtain gains which could not legally be achieved through a condition . |
| 20 | The UK government reportedly favoured the principle of " subsidiarity " [ see also p. 36741 ] , which it took to mean that decisions should only be made in Brussels which could not better be taken at national level . |
| 21 | Research showed that both infant mortality rates and malnutrition tended to be higher among girls than boys , a fact which could not conceivably be ascribed to the occupation but reflected traditional attitudes that damaged the health of the community . |
| 22 | Or was there a wider , opportunistic yet deeply felt and unreflective vision of ‘ American leadership of the Free World ’ , a vision intoxicating in its sweep but one which could not possibly be presented as compatible with the UN terms ostensibly legitimating the entire operation . |
| 23 | He noted the rapid , undignified scramble by which the culprit extricated himself from the ropes on the river path , followed by ominous little trickles of loose earth ; and the exaggerated dignity with which he compensated as soon as he was clear , his slender back turned upon the voice that blasted him out of danger , his crest self-consciously reared in affected disregard of sounds which could not possibly be directed at him . |
| 24 | We have already seen how the courts have used the Wednesbury sense of unreasonableness to invalidate exercises of discretionary power which could not realistically be regarded as absurd , or manifestly irrational . |
| 25 | When two or more persons took as tenants in common , the share of each was treated as a separate item of property which could not only be transferred by him in his lifetime , but which would pass on his death to his representatives . |
| 26 | The tyre then begins to slide and scrubs off the excess speed which could n't safely be lost with a more drastic pull on the brake . |
| 27 | He declared that the boiler was a straightforward Stephenson saturated design which could n't really be improved . |
| 28 | It all begins when a gloomy figure blindly stumbles forth — on to a stage which could n't possibly be any more black — clutching a minor forest of fuming joss sticks . |
| 29 | She looked across the desk at Wycliffe as though for encouragement , but none came ; his expression remained bland ; she could not even be sure that he was looking at her or whether his gaze was focused on the window behind her . |
| 30 | In a nylon jersey house-gown of peacock pattern and iridescent colouring , which clung like a silk glove , she could not possibly be anyone but Mrs Paviour , that same Lesley who walked when the fit took her , last thing at night , and had been home twenty minutes when Charlotte rang the door-bell . |