Example sentences of "he could not [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only throughout Britain , but in many parts of Europe and in the New World , it was widely accepted that if a person succeeded in erecting a dwelling on common or waste land between sunset and sunrise and lighting a fire in it he could not lawfully be dispossessed . |
| 2 | He started well by making it clear to a shocked and protesting Curzon that he could not again be Foreign Secretary . |
| 3 | Nixon , one of the fiercest anti-Communists and " cold warriors " of the 1940s and 1950s , knew that he could not easily be accused of being " soft " on communism when he tried to lessen tension with Russia and with Communist China . |
| 4 | What Gandalf said to Frodo at the start , we should realise , was that he might be able to give the Ring away or destroy it , though only with a struggle ; he could not however be made to want to do so ( except by some kind of dangerous thought-control ) . |
| 5 | Wainfleet protested that he could not fairly be accused of wasting police time with his practical joke because he had not anticipated the police being informed . |
| 6 | In any case he could not now be trusted with clients . |
| 7 | He could not possibly be on steroids : he is too damn skinny . |
| 8 | He could not possibly be alive . |
| 9 | He had a thick crop of wiry hair the colour of good toffee , and heavy eyelashes many shades darker , as lavish as on a Jersey cow , fringing golden-brown eyes of such steady and limpid sincerity that she felt certain he could not possibly be just what he seemed . |