Example sentences of "could [adv] not [vb infin] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between humdrum research and showpiece research , what the humanities scholarly community is really anxious to see is work which is both ( a ) respected as an original scholarly contribution within its own discipline and ( b ) could clearly not have been done without a computer . |
| 2 | However , of the studies I have mentioned it would be difficult to claim that more than a handful fulfilled the criteria I mentioned earlier : both ( a ) respected as an original scholarly contribution within its own discipline and ( b ) could clearly not have been done without a computer . |
| 3 | There seems to be no particular reason why the idea should not have cropped up earlier ( or indeed , later ) but , according to Bethe , its practical implementation could probably not have been much advanced because this depended on the development of high-speed computers and highly efficient fission triggers ; neither of these requirements could have been met at the beginning of 1950 . |
| 4 | N F U and C LA could surely not have been oblivious of the fact that this shortage was one which farmers and landowners , in their role as councillors , had been responsible for creating . |
| 5 | It has led to our recognition of the difficulties inherent in the codes which texts employ to articulate what could otherwise not have been written , of the difficult negotiations between ideological expression and the things this expression seeks to characterise and thus control , and of the complexities of a text 's own negotiations with other texts . |
| 6 | Any writer dealing with Rodrigo must turn to Pidal , and this present work could certainly not have been accomplished without his scrupulous and immensely detailed account of the life and period of El Cid . |
| 7 | From the airline 's point of view , the gift ( disguised as an 8.8 per cent investment stake by BNP ) could therefore not have been more conveniently timed . |