Example sentences of "they [adv] could not be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later that night , drinking champagne at the first night party , he gave me his usual disclaimers ; how it was all an illusion , everything was an illusion , all life was an illusion , and how he , Sir Tom , was the master of illusion , but how his dear children were real because they alone could not be spawned from the imagination . |
| 2 | They could not be offending the Gruagach , and they especially could not be offending Goibniu the Greediguzzler . |
| 3 | Release to college was , it was said , out of the question : they just could not be spared . |
| 4 | The hurts of the last years run so deep they just could not be solved with AT&T involved . |
| 5 | They just could n't be bothered half the time . |
| 6 | Granted that senior army officers , like Sir William , were used to handling men and making decisions , they still could n't be expected to understand what was involved in a tricky investigation , be able to discuss tactics . |
| 7 | In a study attempting to utilise the theory , Cressey ( 1953 ) concluded that they probably could not be . |
| 8 | And they certainly could n't be called poor , living in this house . |
| 9 | They certainly could n't be overheard , but in that crowd anybody could be watching them . |