Example sentences of "that could not [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the case of Python that could not be more inappropriate . |
| 2 | Many valuable contacts were made and several projects that could not be implemented during 1990 will be followed through in the future . |
| 3 | These were considerations that could not be ignored by a Conservative leader , Austen Chamberlain had been toppled in 1922 because he had not withdrawn from an unpopular coalition in time ; and one of the motives for the destruction of the Lloyd George coalition was a desire to replace it by a protectionist government . |
| 4 | The static checkpoint operation continued for most of the day , relieved only When elements of the company were flown from their entrenched positions to set up snap checkpoints on roads that could not be covered permanently . |
| 5 | The crisis that could not be contained . |
| 6 | She had a lump in her throat and an enormous yearning to say something beautiful to her father , something that could not be expressed by words , and so without quite knowing how it happened she suddenly turned her head and with a smile tossed out her arm in the air , easily , flowing , as if to see each other many more times . |
| 7 | Your generation will be the key to shaping the new Europe and seizing the new opportunities that could not be imagined during the Cold War . |
| 8 | It was also a knowledge that could not be unlearned or removed from the human stockpile . |
| 9 | In principle , there was nothing that could not be absorbed into this radically Christianized world . |
| 10 | The trigger had been the near fatality which , although in itself buried , had awakened a great deal of emotional hurt that could not be ignored and for which he was impelled to seek help . |
| 11 | For example , it gave news of ships in peril that could be seen from Fanefjord but not from Elmelunde ; of fires raging in the forest near Magleby that could not be seen at Børre ; of women in labour , requiring the services of a midwife . |
| 12 | Therefore , because it is unlikely that there will ever be revised editions , and because I should just hate to see my name on anything that could not be relied on , the probability is that the books will progressively be withdrawn from publication after a currency of a few years . ’ |
| 13 | Nevertheless he also reminded MEPs that there were many toxicological effects that could not be established without resorting to testing on animals . |
| 14 | By the time that the Book of Isaiah was written however , things were being said about Israel 's God that could not be said of any other , and this led increasingly to the claim that the God of Israel is the only one that exists . |
| 15 | The Admiralty would probably say something to the effect that Crabb was testing highly secret equipment that could not be discussed in detail and had unfortunately drowned . |
| 16 | The trouble was that George had a needling propensity for deception that could not be slaked . |
| 17 | As John Fletcher points out in his introduction , the element of the conference that could not be documented is the presence of Kristeva herself , her generous responses to papers , the dialogues which she sustained throughout . |
| 18 | Processes of economic change , political marginalization , demographic restructuring and financial deficiencies affect communities that could not be identified as ‘ urban ’ . |
| 19 | Market-led regeneration strategies may , in any case , necessitate rather more of a developmental and rather less of a political stance : there is the view that the renewal of London 's Docklands raised issues of national significance that could not be left solely to the boroughs concerned . |
| 20 | However , it is unclear what international co-ordination could achieve that could not be gained through more national co-ordination . |
| 21 | FAB-MS has also succeeded in sequencing peptides that could not be analysed any other way — for example a toxin from Australia that a group at the Department of Inorganic and Organic Chemistry at Cambridge University sequenced recently . |
| 22 | We might then only end up with a series of discrete micro-studies that could not be articulated . |
| 23 | If these were things that could not be fully understood or controlled , then they were all the more menacing because they could not be avoided . |
| 24 | He followed the flickering light and the acrid smoke that drifted back , marking its path in a way that could not be faked like the bleeper . |
| 25 | It is rare to find an elderly person 's home that could not be made much more comfortable , convenient and secure for her by a few carefully planned improvements and adaptations . |
| 26 | Having purchased a very high quality/expensive combo ( Rivera S120 ) from the same shop , within the warranty period the combo went seriously wrong — a fault that could not be fixed by the shop ( even after faxing Paul Rivera in America ! ) . |
| 27 | All the stores that could not be moved by native porters or the gallant Timor ponies were destroyed on 22 February and the Company moved south into the mountains , from where they were able to watch an area of 300 square miles ( over 770km 2 ) , patrolling for negative reports as often as they made enemy sightings . |
| 28 | Firemen had to break down some doors secured by ancient locks that could not be opened with modern keys . |
| 29 | Yet the undecorated vessels were given a variety of titles , despite the majority having also come from cemeteries ; biconical and globular vessels were labelled ‘ urns ’ , squat vessels as ‘ plain bowls ’ , and a variety of shapes that could not be fitted easily into the typological scheme were labelled domestic wares , ‘ crude accessories ’ , ‘ wide-mouthed cook-pots ’ and ‘ cook-pots with lugs ’ ( ibid. , pp. 26–9 , pp. 148–70 ) . |
| 30 | This was welcome news to those who sought a federal Europe , for the federalist implications of the dilemma were very clear : a European army would need European political control of a type that could not be provided by the EDC institutions . |