Example sentences of "that could not [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such positive feedback can occur because the original design was not sufficiently careful or because of additional phase shifts that could not reasonably be foreseen . |
| 2 | This assumption is arbitrary , but no more so than the assertion that reminder treatments somehow make available information that could not otherwise be retrieved . |
| 3 | Only where the foreigner brought in technology that could not otherwise be obtained or where the firm exported the great bulk of its output were these constraints relaxed . |
| 4 | We created works of art that could not even be imagined by lesser races ; we pushed our bodies even further and devised whole new theories and systems to improve our way of life . |
| 5 | The radio version of The Hitchhiker' ’ Guide to the Galaxy had this freedom that could not quite be translated onto television . |
| 6 | We know of innumerable kinds of things that could not possibly be the answer to our question ; we know , then , what God is not , but nothing at all of what God is . |
| 7 | It was a hopeless love and one that could not possibly be reciprocated . |
| 8 | However , other difficulties remained : sentences that could not readily be decomposed into ’ SUBJECT and PREDICATE ’ form also proved troublesome . |
| 9 | Two other factors are worth mentioning here because they are often given as reasons for dispersals that could not obviously be justified otherwise . |