Example sentences of "[that] [det] could not be " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if Mr Onanuga IS lying , his friends counter , surely he would have invented a story that that could not be knocked down so easily . |
| 2 | Blanche had heard rumours about the pressures on police manpower but knew from the chief superintendent 's manner that that could not be the reason . |
| 3 | I thought that that could not be used , so I seek your guidance , Mr. Speaker . |
| 4 | He then drifted gloomily away , noting that this could not be ‘ an open-ended matter that you do in an idealistic whim ’ . |
| 5 | Who told you that this could not be ? |
| 6 | It was plain that this could not be regarded as a trust of the estate in favour of her sister , who was coheir , since the testator wanted not to dispose of his own money but on the pretext of advice to derogate from her rights by prohibiting her from making a will . |
| 7 | When a young worker offered one group the fact that in Germany workers had been given training to help people see themselves as not being ‘ simply cogs in a wheel ’ , it was suggested that this could not be done in Britain . |
| 8 | On the one hand , a half-promise to save a new-born country , and to show that one lot of people may not dispossess another lot merely by virtue of being better armed ; on the other hand , a growing realisation that this could not be achieved without a fight in which an unknown number of young Europeans and Americans would be asked to die in the name of misty-sounding things like compassion and principle . |
| 9 | Turkey argued that this could not be done without a decision of the Mixed Commission . |
| 10 | Such a result would be so illogical , and so much out of tune with the extensive inquisitorial powers which are undeniably created by the Act , that Mr. Collins accepted that this could not be the meaning of section 2 . |
| 11 | Some consideration was given to whether the defect in Form N79 could be cured by this court under section 13 of the Act of 1960 or under R.S.C. , Ord. 59 , r. 10(3) , but it was held that this could not be done . |
| 12 | But although the structure of the city still defeated him in detail , he had got his bearings well enough to know that this could not be their destination . |
| 13 | I sank into the leather armchair and thought to myself that this could n't be real ; I would wake up soon . |
| 14 | And I should also mention that this could n't be possible without the generosity and help of Percy and a sincere thank you Percy . |
| 15 | He caught himself repeatedly checking that the door to the room was locked , the key in the lock so that another could not be inserted from outside . |
| 16 | ( We wrote the marks themselves on paper , so that these could not be changed by program , though we also kept them electronically in order to allow electronic analysis of marks . ) |