Example sentences of "which [adv] could not be " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | What I , what er , I in fact , what , what I did notice in that time that I was there , was that er , when you talk about the old guard , the young people , anybody under forty er they were a little bit cynical about this communism lark and Lenin and the rest of it , they all went to say , they would all go to Lenin 's er statue and in effect have a blessing from Lenin , we went along with them on one occasion , very pleased to do it , but you you got the impression that the younger generation were already in 1982 and the people now that are out there with Yeltsin were shying away from communism , now the thing is this that Gorbachev came along in my opinion exactly at the right time and tried to move things a little our way a little way from the hardline , which obviously could n't be sustained . |
| 2 | And today is the hundredth anniversary of Erwin Panofsky 's birth , which really could not be ignored . |
| 3 | The Securitate had a department devoted to analysing the rumours in circulation and putting out its own to promote the regime 's purposes , which often could not be publicly stated . |
| 4 | Most controversially he announced sweeping cuts in commodity subsidies which he said were unavoidable as government subsidies on wheat and petrol had previously amounted to £S1,000 million and £S7,700 million respectively , which simply could not be sustained . |
| 5 | The theoretical advance demanded further physical evidence which simply could not be collected with the technology then available to researchers . |
| 6 | There are many houses which simply could not be brought up to standard … |