Example sentences of "[conj] could not be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the other 13 POWs , six were given nothing , five either died at that time or could not be traced , and two refused to submit to means testing . |
| 2 | The Panel said that the conversations imparted material new information which had not been made public or could not be made public . |
| 3 | Could , or could not be maintained depending on its location . |
| 4 | I have not felt it necessary to examine the detailed facts of all the earlier decisions or to consider whether the decisions themselves could or could not be supported . |
| 5 | Nothing had done more to encourage this belief than the Church with its ecclesiastical calendar and regulations concerning what could or could not be done on specific days . |
| 6 | Confusion over what could or could not be reported arose , however , because of differences of interpretation among French , Saudi , UK and US officials in Saudi Arabia and in their respective capitals . |
| 7 | For example : the traditional notation regarding ‘ on board ’ loading was replaced by a ‘ taking in charge ’ statement ; the traditional prohibition against transhipment was eliminated , because transhipment was of the essence in combined transport ; since the transport commonly originated and finished inland , the terms ‘ place of receipt ’ and ‘ place of delivery ’ were inserted in separate boxes , either replacing the traditional ‘ port of loading ’ and ‘ port of discharge ’ or joining them as additional specifications ; and since often times the name of the vessel was not known or could not be established with certainty at the time of issuance , the box for the vessel 's name was modified to refer to an ‘ intended vessel . ’ |
| 8 | Moreover , in 1973 one deputy minister of foreign trade described the deficiencies in Soviet marketing as follows : ‘ While we were only beginning to understand that before entering the marketplace we had to study it , determining which machinery could or could not be supplied where , as well as how to organise the work involved , capitalist firms had already created a whole science to deal with the question , coordinating production , advertising and commercial activity into a single discipline ’ ( N. Smeliakov , Novy mir , 12 ( Dec. ) 1973 , 216–17 ) . |
| 9 | B has infringed the patent for the computer chips even if he did not know or could not be expected to know of the patent . |
| 10 | The definition of " consumer use " is very wide , and looks at the actual facts of the case , even if the other party did not know them , or could not be expected to know them . |
| 11 | Whereas similar provisions in other countries were mainly designed to provide facilities which could or could not be used , the Irish ones were to be compulsory and there was to be no choice of doctor . |
| 12 | FAB-MS has also succeeded in sequencing peptides that could not be analysed any other way — for example a toxin from Australia that a group at the Department of Inorganic and Organic Chemistry at Cambridge University sequenced recently . |
| 13 | Yeah , I think that we need to look into more depth the issue of the County Farms estate , we agreed from the start it was something that could not be rushed , and we had to , the principle question that needed to be answered was that was there a viability for County Farms or role for County Farms in the nineteen nineties . |
| 14 | These were considerations that could not be ignored by a Conservative leader , Austen Chamberlain had been toppled in 1922 because he had not withdrawn from an unpopular coalition in time ; and one of the motives for the destruction of the Lloyd George coalition was a desire to replace it by a protectionist government . |
| 15 | The trigger had been the near fatality which , although in itself buried , had awakened a great deal of emotional hurt that could not be ignored and for which he was impelled to seek help . |
| 16 | Indeed , improved managerial efficiency can be seen as the Thatcher government 's alternative solution ‘ for those parts of the public sector that could not be privatised or subjected to the sanitizing forces of the market ’ . |
| 17 | Because of this characteristic , the design of the Panopticon was , as Foucault ( 1979 p 201 ) suggested , " a machinery that assures dissymmetry , disequilibrium , difference " since it enabled surveillance that could not be reciprocated . |
| 18 | However , it is unclear what international co-ordination could achieve that could not be gained through more national co-ordination . |
| 19 | The advance publicity for the show was very coy about this particular piece , promising us a surprise that could not be revealed in advance . |
| 20 | Your generation will be the key to shaping the new Europe and seizing the new opportunities that could not be imagined during the Cold War . |
| 21 | Mr Richardson told the jury that Bedworth , now studying artificial intelligence at Edinburgh University , caused chaos ‘ on a scale that could not be imagined ’ . |
| 22 | No one who had ever stood on the edge of that abyss where she had been teetering for so long , that held hunger and cold , sickness that could not be treated for lack of a shilling , children one could afford neither to raise nor to bury , would have a harsh word to say . |
| 23 | In Ramsden v IRC ( 1957 ) 37 TC 619 , it was held that if A sold property to B with the sale price being left outstanding that could not be treated as a loan within s739(4) . |
| 24 | It is rare to find an elderly person 's home that could not be made much more comfortable , convenient and secure for her by a few carefully planned improvements and adaptations . |
| 25 | The Bullock report ( DES , 1975 ) found that a significant proportion of the writing in primary schools that could not be characterised as " creative writing " was copied from source materials such as reference books . |
| 26 | There was a question that could not be answered by students outside London because |
| 27 | Therefore , because it is unlikely that there will ever be revised editions , and because I should just hate to see my name on anything that could not be relied on , the probability is that the books will progressively be withdrawn from publication after a currency of a few years . ’ |
| 28 | In principle , there was nothing that could not be absorbed into this radically Christianized world . |
| 29 | There can therefore be built into the design of this channel features that could not be built into a permanent method . |
| 30 | Many valuable contacts were made and several projects that could not be implemented during 1990 will be followed through in the future . |