Example sentences of "could n't be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both were , could n't been asked any more of . |
| 2 | Can you get through to town there 's no through road that way , other end , but could n't is there any short cuts you get into town that way ? |
| 3 | It was the eternal noise at that bend in the river , but on a normal day it could n't be heard here . |
| 4 | No , it could n't be one of us . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I could n't be without it , ’ said the woman . |
| 6 | He could n't be part of their brotherhood but he wanted to be among them . |
| 7 | ‘ Climber ’ editor Peter Evans decided he could n't be left out … |
| 8 | Yes , we had clearly failed on a hard pitch , but that bulging wall above , rising blank and massive into the sky , surely could n't be climbed at the grade given in the guide ? |
| 9 | ‘ They ’ said it could n't be done . |
| 10 | Where a wall encloses the sides of the steps , fixing the shuttering could n't be easier . |
| 11 | I could n't be more pleased , so keep sending them in . |
| 12 | Answering questions at a meeting with foreign journalists , Mrs Thatcher said : ‘ We are looking at a scheme to have some people from Hong Kong , but it could n't be anything like the total number . ’ |
| 13 | By 1982 we had swept up all but a handful of awkward items whose inhabitants , for varying reasons , did n't want to be or could n't be ‘ nationalised ’ — which was very untidy and inconvenient of them . |
| 14 | I could n't be sure how , but felt that a truth had been revealed . |
| 15 | we booked The Crunchy Frog which was a hippy commune/warehouse/community centre by the Thames in Rotherhithe down in South East London , but we could n't be bothered to go . |
| 16 | One of the issues that called for more profound thought than usual was the direction United Biscuits should take after its products had come to command the lion 's share of the market and could n't be expected to squeeze out many more sales . |
| 17 | ‘ Kavanagh said the steak was n't great but that the lamb was good , ’ Maggie added but Moran was already on his way out again , muttering that not even simple things were made clear in this house and if simple things could n't be made clear how was a person ever to get from one day to the next in this world . |
| 18 | Did they feel that women could n't be militant ? |
| 19 | Making a 940 SE into a 940 SE Turbo could n't be simpler . |
| 20 | A little matter that could n't be left . |
| 21 | But there could n't be a connection . |
| 22 | Perhaps this is true of some farmers , but it certainly could n't be said of Small 's enterprise . |
| 23 | The tiler said it could n't be done . |
| 24 | It could n't be dismissed so easily . |
| 25 | This money was initially paid out to distributors as a stimulus to set up a network of satellite producers but , after the corporation had trouble recovering the £3 million invested in Korda 's British Lion , money was directed into individual projects which they thought had commercial potential , as the percentage of the budget ( usually 30 per cent ) that could n't be raised from a distributor . |
| 26 | Under strain for a start because it was technically ill-equipped to avert disaster or to cope with the consequences when disaster struck ; under strain from commercial pressures which , as the inquiry puts it , ‘ compromised ’ safety ; under strain above all because the people on the spot could n't or would n't cope , were weary from gruesome working hours ( the senior signal technician who heads the list of the culpable had had only one day off in the past 13 weeks ) , lacked adequate training , or simply could n't be bothered . |
| 27 | But the host computers also had different user interfaces , and students could n't be expected to learn them all . |
| 28 | It might have been a Seiko , but I could n't be sure . |
| 29 | I could n't be happier . |
| 30 | This striding , Nietzschean self , ‘ bigger ’ as opposed to ‘ better ’ , could n't be accommodated in any kind of social order , would never really be happy . |