Example sentences of "that he could [adv] 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 . |
| 22 | The new Chancellor , Kohl , seemed personally mediocre but the 1 October vote showed that he could also be subtle and determined , and he had a formidable political record . |
| 23 | The fact that he could soon be free to walk the streets has horrified the parents of the children he abused . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , World Cup hero Alan Ball has been such a big hit with Graham Taylor that he could soon be named as England 's permanent coach . |
| 25 | When political considerations took primacy over whether qualifications it is not surprising that some of the appointments were given to candidates ill-suited to the duties they were called upon to perform , such as the Lanarkshire freeholder appointed macer of the Court of Session who , according to James Boswell , ‘ had a constant hoarseness , so that he could scarcely be heard when he called the causes and the lawyers , and was indeed as unfit for a crier of court as a man could be . |
| 26 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 27 | The effect unsettled him , and he found the fact that he could still be unsettled somehow curious . |
| 28 | He would enjoy taking charge of the situation , compelling Underwood to marry Clare , showing her that he could still be charitable in spite of the past . |
| 29 | John 's slight built made him a tantalising opponent , but he had scorching pace and neat control , while also possessing the ability to cut inside and shoot powerfully for goal himself , so that he could always be relied upon to contribute several useful goals each season . |
| 30 | She 'd wrapped him up so well against the weather that he could hardly be seen in the middle of all his clothing . |