Example sentences of "[noun sg] could not be identify " in BNC.

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1 I know I took a saw with the idea of cutting his head off so that the body could n't be identified .
2 In the Jack Hayward case , the " Daily Telegraph " argued that the plaintiff could not be identified from the description " a wealthy benefactor of the liberal party " .
3 Controls whose mother had died ( two ) or was unavailable because of ill health ( one ) and controls whose father could not be identified ( eight ) were also considered ineligible .
4 Marcel and Patterson ( 1978 ) presented one word , followed by a pattern mask ( see Chapter 4 ) such that the word could not be identified , and the mask was followed by a letter string about which subjects had to make a lexical decision .
5 Since the masked word could not be identified this semantic priming effect calls into question the usual explanations of masking ( Turvey , 1973 ) and suggests instead that a mask does not necessarily interrupt visual processing but prevents the appearance of a word " in consciousness .
6 Headmen were enlisted to issue false sale vouchers , casual thieves feasted so that the animal could not be identified , and the stealing networks paid special attention to areas near district boundaries .
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