Example sentences of "could [not/n't] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scope or character of a piece of criticism is naturally related to the magazine or newspaper in which it appears , as we noticed in the case of Dore Ashton 's dismissal from the New York Times because it was asserted that her work could not be understood by the paper 's readers . |
| 2 | They are pieces of writing which are distinct in law ; the author of the one could not be sued for the other , or for collaborating in it . |
| 3 | They could not be let into it , but there was a duty to entertain them , and , as I was told , not to stare . |
| 4 | The committee was largely made up of Roman catholic clergy , and they clearly opposed the appointment on the grounds that a protestant could not be trusted to safeguard the catholic morals of her charges in her purchase and loaning of books . |
| 5 | The reaction of the first Dáil to successive attempts to introduce legislation for divorce was to change standing orders so that such a bill could not be introduced again . |
| 6 | He argued that Article 42 of the constitution claimed the primary right of care for the natural parents and was inalienable : it could not be delegated . |
| 7 | Whereas similar provisions in other countries were mainly designed to provide facilities which could or could not be used , the Irish ones were to be compulsory and there was to be no choice of doctor . |
| 8 | I was surprised to learn that my claim could not be backdated , but I wrote those first three weeks ' money off to inexperience . |
| 9 | This was because with the older gliders like the T21 or T31 , the wings were very high and they could not be held securely except by keeping one wing low . |
| 10 | In the past , many students were so petrified about stalling that they could not be persuaded to hold off properly for the landing . |
| 11 | And here was I , thinking you could not be building a roof without nails . |
| 12 | ( Moreover , he was , like Lorca , another ‘ L ’ — and that could not be merely coincidental ! ) |
| 13 | In this sense Leonard 's critic , Stephen Scobie , could not be more wrong . |
| 14 | Once within range , parts of her body could not be prevented from touching parts of his . |
| 15 | The constructivist starting-point could not be more different , and might be said to be ‘ biological ’ where the representational theory is ‘ engineering ’ — or ‘ machinological ’ . |
| 16 | That is to say , a system could not be cognisant unless it appreciated how intentional changes in its perceptions were constrained by reality . |
| 17 | There may of course be some mental processes for which no neural activity exists , but such an awe-inspiring negative could not be proved until we knew the place and function of every least sub-atomic particle in the human brain . |
| 18 | As for the curves in this selection , the C13 and C14 were not the same , and therefore the work that was possible with one tool could not be repeated on its mirror image with its counterpart . |
| 19 | Although local authority staff and councillors accepted that Review Boards could not be truly independent , members feel that in practice they did act independently ; |
| 20 | Many routes could not be said to form a coherent network , other than as InterCity connections to whom they did not now belong , and a few ( surprisingly few ) were in the mould of the traditional country branch line . |
| 21 | Scènes de Ballet ( 1945 ) Ashton 's Scènes de Ballet could not be more different from the previous example . |
| 22 | This could not be more different from the cruel flinging of Mary Vetsera 's body by Rudolf in the Mayerling pas de deux with which MacMillan describes the Count 's tragic mental state . |
| 23 | Any increase in these standards therefore could not be resolved by any earthbound human being . |
| 24 | Many interesting works of English Literature of the past remain unedited and unavailable , and it is a pity that the ingenuity and assiduity that goes into the labour , or play , of interpretation could not be directed to the truly useful work of editing these texts . |
| 25 | It could not be otherwise if literary intelligence was to make itself available in drawing-rooms to administrative and political decision making . |
| 26 | An English writer who went into self-exile just when Pound and Lawrence did , Ford Madox Ford , had always been denied serious consideration ( as he is denied it still ) , in part for having , in No More Parades at the end of a previous war , envisaged the England he was leaving in just such manorial terms : and if the Englishman could not be forgiven , how forgive the American ? |
| 27 | He could not be vindicated by any other principles , either . |
| 28 | And it is true that Williams was aware of creative work in American photography and painting , as Pound in his self-exile could not be . |
| 29 | Huge backlogs of work built up in the securities dealers ' back offices as deals could not be completed within the exchange 's usual accounts periods . |
| 30 | This charge could not be proved but the military tribunal condemned him to 10 years absence from public life . |