Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [be] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even as this work was being carried out , freight traffic was in decline and BR soon made clear its intention to close the line as it could not be converted to 25 Kv AC . |
| 2 | President Kaunda told delegates that Zambia 's experience could not be compared to that of the Soviet Union or of East European countries which had recently opted for political pluralism . |
| 3 | He and Jonathon Alleyne were close friends — some said business associates , though technically Alleyne could not be tied to any commercial ventures . |
| 4 | Fears of a two-tier system of treatment between patients of fundholders and non-fundholders ‘ are largely confused ’ : Glennerster sees no reason why , with careful management , the benefits could not be extended to all patients . |
| 5 | Before a distinguished audience Dr Robert Koch , the eminent Berlin bacteriologist , who in 1882 had described the tubercle bacillus , lecturing on the subject of the disease , stated positively that the bacillus found in infected animals could not be transferred to human beings . |
| 6 | Feeling rather ill due to lack of visibility , we stumbled into Chalet des Pierres , just above Courchevel 1850 , and were disheartened to feel that justice could not be done to such a fantastic display of food . |
| 7 | There was really no reason why the Girl-Human could not be brought to all their bed-chambers , one after the other , before she was used in the Fidchell . |
| 8 | As McKerrow put it : " much of what we strive to find out was not and could not be known to those of the period which we study , for it was veiled from them by the life of everyday . " |
| 9 | In the modern world , they were held to have become so totally interchangeable that there was no value which could not be reduced to this cycle of exchange . |
| 10 | It did have ethical , social and political implications even for life in the present time , but it could not be reduced to these : rather it set the present in the light of God 's future . |
| 11 | The social reality , for me , resided in the complex of interpretations , which could not be reduced to any one of the interpretations which composed it . |
| 12 | ESA director general Reimar Luest retorted that US government space spending per person remained more than 10 times the level in Europe , and that space could not be left to private sector R&D : industry talks in terms of 6 or 7 years , whereas in space the returns may take 30 years . |
| 13 | This effect could not be attributed to different patterns of intonation in the two conditions ( Zurif and Mendelsohn , 1972 ) which implies that the effect was mediated at a syntactic level . |
| 14 | Eight failed to do so because of a recurrence of their disease that could not be attributed to any particular food constituent . |
| 15 | While reiterating that the demand for international inspections of North Korea 's nuclear facilities could not be linked to other issues , the government stated its willingness to discuss the nuclear issue " for the purposes of reducing tension and building confidence " . |
| 16 | They called upon North Korea to submit to international inspection of its nuclear facilities as an act of compliance with international law , stressing that the issue could not be linked to other matters such as the payment of Japanese compensation for Korea 's pre-1945 colonization . |