Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] could not be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some visits could not be done with students and so work had to be reorganised . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Justice Antonin Scalia , who wrote the opinion , said the St Paul law was flawed because it was selective ; some thoughts could not be afforded less protection than others . |
| 4 | Unfortunately some measurements could not be made at the time of the growth room trials , owing to maintenance work . |
| 5 | The Court of Appeal held , however , that there was no partnership in existence , since no business was being carried on by the defendant and X ; on the contrary , the goods had been ordered in preparation for the formation of a company , and such transactions could not be considered as ‘ carrying on a business ’ . |
| 6 | And plagiarism is often the result of an admiration for the wording of the original — a feeling that such ideas could not be put better . |
| 7 | While the widespread building of town walls in the second half of the fourteenth century provided a measure of safety against marauding forces ( even against the Companies ) , such fortifications could not be ignored by an enemy bent upon conquest . |
| 8 | In the opinion of Melanie Clore there is no reason to believe that such prices could not be repeated at the present time . |
| 9 | In reply Roy Hattersley supported the call for the immediate suppression of street violence , but warned that the roots of such riots could not be dealt with until all people felt they had a stake in British society ( ibid. : cols. 1407–9 ) |
| 10 | Marx argued , quite correctly , that any broad change in the property relations of a society would involve sharp political , if not military , struggles and that the course of such struggles could not be legislated in advance according to the blueprints of some would-be social reformer . |
| 11 | If there are exclusively private events , in the sense that they are in principle , and not just empirically , inaccessible to more than one observer , it might be argued that such events could not be intelligibly claimed , let alone shown to be , subject to any laws , and this means that no rational explanatory model could be constructed for them . |
| 12 | These meetings could not be said to be unimportant because world Christianity ought to be seen to meet . |
| 13 | These contracts could not be fulfilled as the units had to be redesigned and tested . |
| 14 | There were no relevant standing rules governing applications for declarations and injunctions before the enactment of rule 3(7) because before then these remedies could not be applied for under Order 53 , but only in private actions . |
| 15 | The court held that these words could not be used as the words were absolutely privileged . |
| 16 | The fact , however , that they have designed a language to fulfil these functions does not necessarily mean that these functions could not be fulfilled in other ways , nor that their language is intrinsically connected with them , nor that the language has necessarily been proven to succeed in achieving these ideals . |
| 17 | The complexity of the issues meant that these matters could not be dealt with by popular vote . |
| 18 | But , of course , slabs of whatever shape must overlap the liner by a couple of inches , so our crazy paving did n't fit as it should … in the end , it was a case of another jigsaw , but these pieces could n't be cut . |
| 19 | Unfortunately these constants could not be determined theoretically but only empirically , and eventually this proved to be an unsound basis . |
| 20 | As the elite troops of the Christian army these monk-knights could not be allowed to live to fight another day . |
| 21 | At this time , however , due to the unequal distribution of wealth these resources could not be tapped . |
| 22 | These objectives could not be attained were the court 's powers to be strictly limited to its territorial jurisdiction . |
| 23 | Thus in United Brands Co. v. Commission ( 1978 ) , the Court held that United Brands had abused its dominant position by charging different prices for bananas according to the member state of their destination , where these prices could not be justified on the basis of transport costs . |
| 24 | These results could not be explained by expectations about the effects of influenza or by changes in mood , and they confirm findings at the Medical Research Council Common Cold Unit with experimentally induced illnesses . |
| 25 | In one trial , elemental feeding was as effective as bowel rest plus total parenteral nutrition , but these results could not be reproduced in patients with colonic Crohn 's disease . |
| 26 | These courses could not be done in a shorter time so they were normally arranged for a time of year when there was less pressure of work on those participating . |
| 27 | Some of these shots could not be taken today in this , either because building has made them impossible or simply because the crowds who congregate to nowadays to take these shots would detract from the scene . |
| 28 | A wall had to be demolished , and patients on these wards could not be subjected to the unavoidable dust and noise which would result . |
| 29 | The issue called for a great deal of understanding on both sides , which inevitably in many cases could not be guaranteed . |
| 30 | Many routes could not be said to form a coherent network , other than as InterCity connections to whom they did not now belong , and a few ( surprisingly few ) were in the mould of the traditional country branch line . |