Example sentences of "could not [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 31 | Northcliffe , Beaverbrook , Kemsley or Thomson , on the other hand , could not easily be jettisoned : their press empires were more substantially theirs . |
| 32 | Marx believed that by the mid-nineteenth century workers in England could not easily be exploited any more than they were already : for example , the working day could not be any further extended . |
| 33 | Yet this wave of social legislation could not easily be reconciled with the tenets of classical liberalism . |
| 34 | Nixon , one of the fiercest anti-Communists and " cold warriors " of the 1940s and 1950s , knew that he could not easily be accused of being " soft " on communism when he tried to lessen tension with Russia and with Communist China . |
| 35 | The finger pointed at education could not easily be pushed aside , particularly at a time when the period of education had been extended and the school population , on both sides of the Atlantic , was beginning to diminish factors which should have favoured significant improvement . |
| 36 | Once the vegetational cover of the hard schists was destroyed they could not easily be restored to cultivation . |
| 37 | It is clear that such gaps restrict methods of handling data ( see chapters 5 and 6 ) ; for example data for age- and sex-groups could not easily be aggregated . |
| 38 | He was shrewd enough to realize that western-style government could not easily be grafted on to a chiefly structure profoundly resistant to rapid and uneven modernization . |
| 39 | Alex , from his position in the wings , was not concentrating as much and could not easily be kept informed about when they were stopping and starting , going back to rehearse lighting changes and so on , with the result that he was often feeding the wrong words . |
| 40 | Right-wingers in Shamir 's Cabinet were understood to regard the pace of settlement building in the occupied territories as crucial in creating facts on the ground which could not easily be eliminated by developments at the diplomatic level [ see also p. 38550 ] . |
| 41 | He told conference delegates he had been asked by the BNFL board and the Government to continue in his post for a short period after March 31 as his successor — John Guinness , currently Permanent Secretary in the DoE — could not easily be released from that post until after the general election . |
| 42 | It is more probable that in most cases , the relative contributions to the final research of student and supervisor could not easily be separated . |
| 43 | If anything could not easily be covered through this thematic approach , it was covered discretely , through a story , or watching a video , or in a separate activity . |
| 44 | It seems reasonable to assume , for instance , that he was — at least in part — influenced by the calculations of his own defence establishment from 1943 ( calculations which could not easily be challenged until the United States acquired nuclear weapons ) to the effect that the defeat of Germany must make the USSR the dominant military power in Europe . |
| 45 | In any case the priorities of his government could not easily be reconciled in the context of British policy-making , let alone in conjunction with the United States . |
| 46 | It was on several different levels and had large rooms which could not easily be split . |
| 47 | The threats , presented as a letter from unnamed businessmen to a columnist of the Critica daily , could not immediately be confirmed . |
| 48 | But damages could not normally be obtained for an innocent misrepresentation . |
| 49 | While as settlement within the greenbelt , development could not normally be permitted on D thirty nine and D forty , as these are outside the built area in the terms of Policy G B Three , which we have oft considered at erm this enquiry . |
| 50 | The petitioner still had to prove breakdown by demonstrating one ( or more ) of the following ‘ facts ’ : that the respondent had committed adultery ; that the respondent had behaved in such a way that the petitioner could not reasonably be expected to live with the respondent ; that the respondent had deserted the petitioner for a continuous period of at least two years ; that the parties had lived apart for a continuous period of at least two years and that the respondent consented to a decree being granted ; or that the parties had lived apart for a continuous period of at least five years . |
| 51 | Examples include a driver being stung by bees , having an epileptic fit or loss of control because of a latent defect provided the driver did not and could not reasonably be expected to know of the defect . |
| 52 | If so , an ethical statement made by me would be true , and could not reasonably be challenged by others , if I have the feelings in question . |
| 53 | ( A suggestion made by Alasdair MacIntyre that emotivism is promising only as an account of the use of ethical words in a society lacking shared values could not reasonably be extended to the attitudinism I have described . ) |
| 54 | Although an impressive example of children sharing and exploring ideas together , this could not reasonably be called a ‘ collaborative group activity ’ of the sort we were anticipating . |
| 55 | ‘ In determining the total liability of an institution to a depositor for the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) above , or the liability or total liability of an institution to a depositor for the purposes of subsection ( 2 ) above , no account shall be taken of any liability in respect of a deposit if … ( c ) the institution is a former authorised institution and the deposit was made after it ceased to be an authorised institution or a recognised bank or licensed institution under the Banking Act 1979 unless , at the time the deposit was made , the depositor did not know and could not reasonably be expected to have known that it had ceased to be an authorised institution , recognised bank or licensed institution . ’ |
| 56 | The court found that , looked at in substance and fact , the two Medical Defence Union members on the General Council were not accusers as well as judges and that they could not reasonably be suspected of bias . |
| 57 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ they state , ‘ it must be a threat which a person of the age and with the other characteristics of the woman could not reasonably be expected , in the circumstances , to resist . ’ |
| 58 | Social security benefits are intended to assist those people who , for whatever reason , find themselves in circumstances where they are unable to support themselves and those circumstances could not reasonably be avoided . |
| 59 | Whilst an estimate of our fees has been given , additional costs may be required as a result of any material change in the assignment or difficulties in obtaining information which could not reasonably be foreseen and which caused additional work not included in the original estimate . |
| 60 | This is simply because the supplier did not know , and could not reasonably be expected to know , of this potential contract . |