Example sentences of "[det] [noun] could not be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er in paragraph a hundred and eight of that paper and I 'd I 'd like to read er read a quotation out , However because an exception is not acknowledged it does not mean that provision could not be made for this . |
| 2 | That finding could not be disclosed , for its publication would have revealed the regime 's double dishonesty , in suppressing the truth and in using the incident to justify repressive measures against the liberalizers in the university and to rally the faithful around Franco . |
| 3 | That course could not be taken in the present case , because of a specific and unusual statutory provision which anticipated the kind of mistake which was made by the sentencer in this case . |
| 4 | After that Dot could n't be bothered . |
| 5 | This Nationalist co-operation and its outcome led to the loss of many SNP activists , who had known all along that Labour could not be trusted . |
| 6 | It was held that the agreement was void and that effect could not be given to it by rejecting the general restraint which appeared in it and limiting the agreement for the purposes of the action to carrying on the business of a tailor . |
| 7 | But this function could not be achieved by the state directly since it was too remote . |
| 8 | Describing himself as ‘ instinctively uneasy ’ , he went on to say that this case could not be used as a precedent by people who want to push the boundaries of life and death still further in the direction of euthanasia . |
| 9 | Well I was impressed by the erm the Maxwell erm peoples comments that the funds should be clearly marked pension fund accounts and and that er there would be regulations that this money could n't be transferred without some the regulator again or somebody making er agreeing to the transaction , but I erm fully understand that would be erm very time-consuming , but er that 's the only way I can see that , that the fund should be clearly marked that they 're pension fund and should n't be transferred without some some authority agreeing to it . |
| 10 | This hypothesis could not be tested in the course of the present study , unfortunately , but it remains an interesting question which merits attention in the future . |
| 11 | This effect could not be attributed to different patterns of intonation in the two conditions ( Zurif and Mendelsohn , 1972 ) which implies that the effect was mediated at a syntactic level . |
| 12 | Some Tory loyalist backbenchers said last night that this episode could not be compared to the attack on Mrs Thatcher by the then Sir Geoffrey Howe , which is acknowledged to have cost her the keys to No. 10 . |
| 13 | It struck her as peculiar that Mr Browning should not have given Mr Surtees Cook his Rome address for this telegram could not be relayed south in under another twenty-four hours and perhaps more . |
| 14 | Some visits could not be done with students and so work had to be reorganised . |
| 15 | This child could n't be Maria Luisa 's ! |
| 16 | Then Mr Briggs wrote again later , saying this girl could not be found . |
| 17 | Some trials could not be performed due to a routine defrosting and cleanout of the growth cupboard , but even the ones which were done , were unsatisfactory . |
| 18 | Claudia sighed ; Dana in this mood could n't be reasoned with . |
| 19 | Of course , this theme could not be made explicit , for the time of Jacobinism had not arrived . |
| 20 | This difference could not be explained by the distribution of either histological types or admission types between the erm sites that had less than one hundred cases and those that had more than one hundred cases . |
| 21 | This charge could not be proved but the military tribunal condemned him to 10 years absence from public life . |
| 22 | The Attorney-General refused to lend his name to the action , and the House of Lords held that this refusal could not be challenged in an action for judicial review . |
| 23 | Unlike the situation at a comparable juncture in western development , however , this revolution could not be carried through under the leadership of the bourgeoisie . |
| 24 | Eighteen months later , the player showed that this criticism could not be levelled against him . |
| 25 | Although for the most part meditative , the topicality of this exhibition could not be clearer in Rory Donaldson 's photographically transformed Hands Off Our Water poster , an image which figures in the newly-available catalogue for the show . |
| 26 | A population of individuals adopting this strategy could not be invaded by any mutant . |
| 27 | But sooner or later the firm 's demand for investment capital would become so large that this demand could not be met at a fixed cost of capital and r would begin to rise . |
| 28 | This secret could not be shared with the grown-ups . |
| 29 | This duty could not be discharged by entrusting the work to an independent contractor . |
| 30 | Griffiths realized that this situation could not be changed overnight , so under the new regulations the NHS will still be allowed to carry on providing long-term care if it wishes . |