Example sentences of "but they could [not/n't] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were soft drinks , somewhere , but they could not be reached . |
| 2 | On May 31 President Ramiz Alia appealed in the People 's Assembly for patience : the strikers ' demands were just but they could not be met immediately , he said . |
| 3 | More papers lay scattered thickly over the ground between the churchyard wall and the rubble of the Cutcherry but they could not be collected because musket fire once more swept the open spaces . |
| 4 | But they could not be compelled to do so . |
| 5 | The ship 's doctor tried to give them the kiss of life but they could not be revived . |