Example sentences of "could not be ignore [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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that could not be ignored by a Conservative leader , Austen Chamberlain had been toppled in 1922 because he had not withdrawn from an unpopular coalition in time ; and one of the motives for the destruction of the Lloyd George coalition was a desire to replace it by a protectionist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 .
2 Because of the common frontier between the two countries , and also because of considerable French economic interests which had grown during the period of the Second Empire , whatever happened on the far side of the Pyrenees could not be ignored by the government in Paris .
3 Cirencester could not be ignored by the Royalists .
4 While the widespread building of town walls in the second half of the fourteenth century provided a measure of safety against marauding forces ( even against the Companies ) , such fortifications could not be ignored by an enemy bent upon conquest .
5 It was true that Afghanistan refrained from assuming open multilateral military commitments but the character and scale of Soviet-Afghan bilateral military relations could not be ignored in this context .
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