Example sentences of "could not be [vb pp] to be " in BNC.

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1 The British in India had from the beginning of the nineteenth century seen clearly that so unnatural a phenomenon as the government of that teeming subcontinent by the parliamentary electorate of the British Isles could not be destined to be permanent .
2 What are the implications for the CAPM if the market could not be assumed to be perfect ?
3 Comparison of quantitative data between the tw groups was performed by Student 's t test when normal distribution of the data could be assumed , and by Mann-Whitney U test when distrubiton could not be assumed to be normal ( serum and amylase values ) .
4 The daughter of Samuel Roberts , quite simply , could not be seen to be involved .
5 These meetings could not be said to be unimportant because world Christianity ought to be seen to meet .
6 The students could not be said to be responsible for their own actions and thoughts .
7 Nevertheless it was held that any false indication given by the retailer could not be said to be due to the act or default of Cadbury since the retailer could quite easily have compared the weights and prices of his existing stock and the new bars to see if the label ‘ Extra value ’ was justified .
8 English has no dental or labiodental plosive phonemes , so in these cases , although there is clearly assimilation , there could not be said to be a substitution of one phoneme for another .
9 One group that was frequently excluded was the poor — those who could not be guaranteed to be able to pay their own funeral expenses .
10 They could not be expected to be automatically loyal .
11 The fresh-faced , girl-next-door image could not be allowed to be tarnished by being linked with the wrong merchandise and the negotiations that went into choosing the first Kylie-recommended products were intense .
12 If Zuwaya disliked policemen as a category , and took pride in not being related to any , that was in part because in the past ordinary people got their main experience of corruption and venality in the first instance from the police , and that reputation stuck ; and partly also because they recognized that policemen had divided loyalties and could not be trusted to be loyal exclusively to their kinsmen .
13 There was only one machine at Enfield , German manufacture , which could not be spared to be stripped and copied .
14 His father sold off some copyrights in 1969 when , as Wilson 's lawyers now claim , Brian could not be claimed to be of sound mind .
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