Example sentences of "that he could not be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been suggested that Biggs does not possess the heart but when so badly cut that he could not be allowed more than one more round he went back out and stopped David Bey . |
| 2 | Mr Nicholson said his intention was to make the pupils realise that he could not be shocked . |
| 3 | Reading right-wing papers also made people more inclined to believe the Conservative Party had convincing policies and was likely to keep its promises , that Kinnock was neither decisive , nor trustworthy , nor a good leader of a team , and especially that he could not be relied upon to stand up for British interests against the USSR . |
| 4 | The dons felt that he could not be trusted : that he was populist , bullying , showy , and hostile to them . |
| 5 | Lord Whitelaw said that he could not be associated with ‘ the very extreme views which he has expressed ’ . |
| 6 | Joseph protested that he could not be ready to move in thirty days . |
| 7 | When this was first pointed out to the ambassador , he said that he could not be sued for libel since he possessed diplomatic immunity . |
| 8 | Part of her trusted him still , but the voice of reason whispered that he could not be the frank and open person he appeared . |
| 9 | Gore apparently did not want his name on the cover of the book and wished for it to be published by the Canadian fascist , Arcand , so that he could not be sued . |
| 10 | Although Crawford was one of the few Test cricketers to play in spectacles it would seem that his eyesight was not so poor that he could not be used by the military . |
| 11 | The misleading of the Commons by ministers , the deliberate absence from Britain of the Master of Elibank ( so that he could not be questioned ) , and the evasions of the Prime Minister all created the suspicion that something was wrong and Unionists were perfectly justified in their attempts to find out what it was . |
| 12 | A physically brave man ( he was a noted wrestler and had instructed Harry Pascoe in the art at one time ) he was doctrinally circumspect , so he conducted the marriage service in such a way that he could not be labelled as either a papist or a puritan . |
| 13 | It is he who must answer before Parliament for anything that his officials have done under his authority , and , if for an important matter he selected an official of such junior standing that he could not be expected competently to perform the work , the minister would have to answer for that in Parliament . |
| 14 | In a third serving of a bankruptcy notice in 1911 , Wilson claimed not only that the Federation had inspired the plaintiff , a seaman called Nielsen , to take the action , but that they had moved the plaintiff from place to place so that he could not be found , making it impossible to discharge the union 's debt to him . |
| 15 | Not , she recalled , that he could n't be awkward . |
| 16 | He was avid for news of how it was all going , and regretting that he could n't be part of it . |
| 17 | One of the councillors on the libraries committee took a copy of Gay News home to study so that he could n't be accused of being uninformed when the time came for him to vote for its rejection . |
| 18 | ‘ There were other items … of a very personal nature that he could n't be selling , if you see what I mean . ’ |
| 19 | My real aims were to get through to John and to keep him alive in people 's minds so that he could n't be forgotten . |
| 20 | ‘ I shouted for someone to get him out , but I knew instantly that he could n't be saved . |
| 21 | ‘ I shouted for someone to get him out , but I knew instantly that he could n't be saved . |