Example sentences of "could [not/n't] be trusted " in BNC.
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| 1 | The committee was largely made up of Roman catholic clergy , and they clearly opposed the appointment on the grounds that a protestant could not be trusted to safeguard the catholic morals of her charges in her purchase and loaning of books . |
| 2 | It is not surprising that at independence most governments identified the international companies from the former colonial power as potential agents of neo-colonialism , who could not be trusted to operate with the interests of African countries at heart . |
| 3 | The dons felt that he could not be trusted : that he was populist , bullying , showy , and hostile to them . |
| 4 | After years of assuring everyone that China could be trusted to carry out the 1984 British-Chinese agreement on Hong Kong in good faith , the colonial administration found itself after Tiananmen Square presiding over a population which knew that China could not be trusted at all . |
| 5 | His long-held belief that spinners could not be trusted had been vindicated , and from now on Test cricket would take on a new dimension . |
| 6 | They already knew that he was a man who could not be trusted to preserve the Union and to safeguard the social superiority of Protestant culture . |
| 7 | The resupply effort was probably kept secret from Congress and the public precisely because it was just ; the general run of men could not be trusted with fine things . |
| 8 | Among those who could not be trusted were colleagues even closer to home , right inside the NSC , who believed in presenting the President with ‘ ranges of options ’ for his policies in Iran or Central America . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Chamberlain returned to Britain and publicly proclaimed ‘ Peace in our time ’ but he had by now realised that Hitler 's word could not be trusted , so he endeavoured to form an alliance with Russia against Germany , the fear of Communism being overcome by the greater fear of Nazi domination , However , Poland refused to agree to Russian troops having the right to cross Polish territory for the purpose of attacking Germany from the east , so an effective alliance was impracticable and Russia became isolated from that proposed pact . |
| 11 | Perhaps they could not be trusted ; they might run away . |
| 12 | The Lodge also said that her reasoning was ‘ inaccurate and biased ’ , and went on to imply that she was a Fascist who could not be trusted . |
| 13 | In the case containing the arrow is a silver chain mail bag , containing ten silver shillings , the traditional ransom paid to medieval archers who could not be trusted to return it . |
| 14 | He 'd made it abundantly clear that Hari was of no account in the community , that she could not be trusted to carry any weight with lawyers and the like . |
| 15 | Graham Shaw , then Group personnel Director , regarded the quality of search work he had experienced as satisfactory , without leaks or indiscretions ; he agreed that headhunters who could not be trusted would soon be finished . |
| 16 | Mercenaries , like the hireling of the bible , could not be trusted : the bells which warned the inhabitants of the villages and towns of southern France of the danger of the approaching Companies reflect society 's fear and mistrust of such men . |
| 17 | It would be dangerous to supply too much to South Korea since Rhee could not be trusted to behave responsibly if he possessed powerful forces . |
| 18 | I knew he could not be trusted , and I decided to tell Mr Jaggers that Orlick was not responsible enough to work for Miss Havisham . |
| 19 | She hated herself for falling in love so easily with her handsome husband , who , she now realized , could not be trusted . |
| 20 | Blanche decided Urquhart could not be trusted with the whole truth . |
| 21 | Such a device could not be trusted , and it was the hope of scientists that in place of rules of thumb properly scientific methods could be widely taught . |
| 22 | And when these did n't meet with immediate success , yet more surveys were done and more programmes developed — until , ultimately , it was decided that , if parents could not be trusted to do the right thing , the decision had to be taken out of their hands . |
| 23 | Nonetheless the Conservatives ' opposition to Beveridge disillusioned many people who felt they could not be trusted to implement the report , regardless of any promises they might make . |
| 24 | On the British side of the Atlantic there were many who tended to dismiss the Americans as moralizers who would be generous with advice and opinions but who could not be trusted to back up their words with actions . |
| 25 | This Nationalist co-operation and its outcome led to the loss of many SNP activists , who had known all along that Labour could not be trusted . |
| 26 | Even with his handiwork through me , I thought of the sadness inevitably awaiting the others ; yet I would have to pursue him , for someone who had three times seen murder as a solution to problems could n't be trusted never to try it again . |
| 27 | I knew he/she could n't be trusted . |
| 28 | ‘ Is he all ready ? ’ the pilot said to Harvey , as if pike could n't be trusted to speak for himself . |
| 29 | After all , he explained , politics was n't everything — what about drink , for instance ? — and if you could n't be trusted to call properly when you were playing tennis , who would want to play with you ? |