Example sentences of "could not be [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the talks the Rev. Ian Paisley , the leader of the Northern Ireland Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP ) , had continued to insist that the Irish government could not be involved in the talks until new political arrangements had emerged to the satisfaction of the principal constitutional parties in the province . |
| 2 | If suffering could not be relieved in a manner acceptable to doctors , patients would just have to put up with it . |
| 3 | They also say the coach driver could not be responsible in any way for the accident . |
| 4 | If we now ask how we could discover that all action is to be explained in non-intentional terms , and at the same time take the point that it could not be non-intentional in the way that mad or childish behaviour is , it seems that we should have to come to see all action quite differently . |
| 5 | We have seen that a persistent principle since 1906 had been that an act done by a person in contemplation or furtherance of trade dispute could not be actionable in tort on the ground of inducing another person to break a contract . |
| 6 | Yes , I do as we were told in paragraph that ‘ he could not be comfortable in his mind while one walked unpunished who had questioned his breeding or his courage . ’ |
| 7 | If it was not free from unwelcome intervention the papacy could not be active in what it saw as its role . |
| 8 | Living in a racially articulated and predicated world , I could not be alone in reacting to this aspect of the American cultural and historical condition . |
| 9 | So Doctor Who could not be obvious in its audience approach . |
| 10 | She could n't be involved in a police investigation . |