Example sentences of "[noun prp] could [adv] be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet this matter of the battle at Pilleth could not be left unanswered , for the sake of his tenure . |
| 2 | It also insisted that the FMLN could not be granted political status until it had disarmed . |
| 3 | Nathaniel Hawthorne spoke of the ‘ phantasmagorical antics ’ he had played in describing the socialist community which appears in The Blithedale Romance : the antics played in the commune conceived by Ahmed could also be called phantasmagorical . |
| 4 | He was told in meetings with the President of the Commission , Jacques Delors ( who had visited Warsaw on Nov. 18 , 1989 ) and the External Relations Commissioner , Frans Andriessen that Poland could not be promised full EC membership in the immediate term . |
| 5 | That meant Mother had to quit her dressmaking career since Aunt Bessie could n't be left alone afterwards . |