Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead China got an ‘ object ’ code which could not be converted for military tasks . |
| 2 | Significantly , some of the other alleged benefits were flatly contradicted by the employer ; others were found to exist but could not be confirmed in precise financial terms . |
| 3 | Throughout the century intensive encouragement of privateering by any State was usually a result of inferiority at sea , an implied admission that the enemy 's fleet could not be defeated in open combat . |
| 4 | 2 In an effort to achieve this , she began a series of charcoal drawings on inexpensive white paper , which make it clear that what she was feeling could not be expressed with traditional , representational imagery . |
| 5 | Part of the difficulty was that the cause , so sentimentally longed for , could not be expressed in sentimental terms . |
| 6 | Such black holes could not be formed by gravitational collapse , because their masses are below the Chandrasekhar mass limit : stars of this low mass can support themselves against the force of gravity even when they have exhausted their nuclear fuel . |
| 7 | Acheson added that the Soviet Union was already endeavouring to spread subversion in Japan and that the potential Soviet threat to Japan was such that the risks inherent in concluding a treaty could not be entertained in present circumstances . |
| 8 | Examples included too many groups of activities running at the same time and an emphasis on individual work which could not be sustained in sufficient depth for all the children in the class . |
| 9 | Shamir , who had earlier stated that the settlement issue was not relevant to the peace process , assured Baker that the plan could not be implemented without full Cabinet approval . |
| 10 | While Iraq demanded the unconditional release of all prisoners-of-war ( PoWs ) and their return to their countries of origin on " humanitarian and legal " grounds , Iran insisted that the issue of prisoner exchange could not be separated from territorial questions and called for the simultaneous withdrawal of Iranian and Iraqi troops from each other 's territory with prisoner exchange . |
| 11 | Their use of subterfuge can be justified only to obtain material which ought to be published in the public interest and could not be obtained by other means . |
| 12 | This could not be handled via temporary exception from part of the National Curriculum , referred to earlier ( see p. 118 ) , because a ‘ general direction ’ can only be issued if the head teacher considers that it is inappropriate for the child to follow the National Curriculum and in his opinion that situation is likely to change within six months . |
| 13 | It could not be rigged for political or even more unworthy reasons . |
| 14 | He developed the concept of relative motion and argued that the uniform motion of a system could not be detected by mechanical means without access to some reference point outside of the system . |
| 15 | In the FAP cases , minute adenomas and single gland adenomas , which could not be detected by naked eye , were easily recognised under the dissecting microscope ( Fig 2 ) . |
| 16 | The results in Fig. 5 show that when the visceral isoform was used as probe , expression could not be detected in smooth muscle tissues from 20 day old fetal rabbits . |
| 17 | It must have seemed clear to him that the Frankish advance could not be stopped by armed opposition , for he ceded to Charles all the territories gained across the Pyrenees . |
| 18 | It is possible for example that time-gap experiences simply reflect events which were so banal that they could not be distinguished from other memories for similar previous driving . |
| 19 | Age specific mortality was used throughout the study taking into account increasing age , but in Asians unlike Europeans this could not be adjusted for changing mortality rates from year to year as these data were unavailable . |
| 20 | The fact , however , that they have designed a language to fulfil these functions does not necessarily mean that these functions could not be fulfilled in other ways , nor that their language is intrinsically connected with them , nor that the language has necessarily been proven to succeed in achieving these ideals . |
| 21 | But her contribution could not be felt in full until her troops arrived in France in considerable numbers . |
| 22 | Some of those who attacked ministers ' devotion to the ‘ social gospel ’ were attacking a penchant for education bills , county council elections and slum clearance , but they would not have been as upset by a renewed campaign for disestablishment , which , no less than educational reform , could not be achieved without political action . |
| 23 | Whilst desktop publishing at the low-end of the market may appear to be a careful juggling match between cost and quality of output , as indeed it is , the real determining factor about the suitability of the products is whether they actually provide some benefit that could not be achieved by other means . |
| 24 | Hence this type of learning could not be achieved by mere transient modulation of transmitter release ; new proteins were being made , and it was necessary to discover which they were and what their cellular functions were . |
| 25 | Mr Sheffield said as Mr Elderfield was not complying with his medication it may well be that he had some form of epileptic fit but it could not be said with complete confidence . |
| 26 | The choice between these two schools of thought could not be based on rational calculations , since these two different approaches could not be tried out in war . |
| 27 | But if Britain could not be moved towards European economic co-operation , Acheson continued to press for increases to the military strength of the West . |
| 28 | All the stores that could not be moved by native porters or the gallant Timor ponies were destroyed on 22 February and the Company moved south into the mountains , from where they were able to watch an area of 300 square miles ( over 770km 2 ) , patrolling for negative reports as often as they made enemy sightings . |
| 29 | By itself this statement , unequivocal though it was , could not be regarded as decisive evidence . |
| 30 | The defendants successfully applied to the English court for this service to be set aside on the grounds that personal service by the agent of a foreign litigant without the approval of the Swiss authorities was a criminal offence under the Swiss Penal Code and could not be regarded as valid service , as no English court could authorise service which was contrary to the internal law of the country in which service was to be effected . |