Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [coord] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Washington could not but be uneasy when it heard the British ( and later the French ) hinting ( and sometimes stating more explicitly ) that their nuclear force might be used to trigger American use of nuclear weapons in an East–West confrontation . |
| 2 | Even the unsympathetic could not but be impressed , and when Charlotte Poole , Tom 's cousin , met Coleridge at Marshmills that month , she mingled her disapproval with admiration , setting him down in her journal as ‘ a young man of brilliant understanding , great eloquence , desperate fortune , democratick principles , and entirely led away by the feelings of the moment ’ . |
| 3 | Though the war then ended , the headmaster of Repton could not but be wary of political passion expressed by boys . |
| 4 | ‘ He has other calls on his time now , you know , ’ Theda said lightly , to conceal the ache in her heart , for in spite of her intention his absence could not but be painful . |
| 5 | She could not but be gratified and relieved at the possibility of a small sum to see her through the likely lean period before she could get another post . |
| 6 | Not only could they see , they could clearly be seen : every speaker could not but be aware of their non-Catholic auditors , and trim his words to cause as little upset as possible . |
| 7 | Even in Derry 's hour of glory he could n't but be impressed with the sheer physical presence of the senior players from Dublin and Galway . |
| 8 | If she was standing in a doorway people could n't but be aware of her presence . |
| 9 | ( whether it take the form of cynical passivity or dogmatic and manipulative activism ) can not but be destructive of a genuinely emancipatory praxis . |
| 10 | At the end of Precambrian times , one can not but be impressed by the similarities of deposits such as the Eocambrian of Greenland , the Swedish Jotnian , the Scottish Torridonian and the French Brioverian . |
| 11 | He added : ‘ You can not but be impressed by the size and complexity of Sellafield . |
| 12 | I can not but be sorry |
| 13 | Thus the Englishman , familiar with his Rhaetian sediments at the top of the Trias , can not but be astounded when he reads of the Rhaetian deposits of Thailand and finds them described as black pyritous shales with Rhaetavicula contorta , resting on red marls and sandstones , with evaporites , just like those of the Severn cliffs . |
| 14 | Following Kuhn , we can not but be aware of the internal resistance to change that disciplines exhibit , even in the supposedly open-ended inquiry of science . |