Example sentences of "who could not be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most were casual or self-employed workers who could not be made to retire , and many were also small property-holders — an important factor which also made their position stronger for continuing at work . |
| 2 | Infants dying of sudden infant death syndrome included 229 Maoris , 240 non-Maoris , and 16 children who could not be assigned to an ethnic group . |
| 3 | But this one who could not be named with impunity , who could not be copied without distortion , still remained very much beyond our ken . |
| 4 | It must be carried by someone who could not be suspected . |
| 5 | The incumbent , MacFarlane of Kirkton , was also sure of a substantial body of support among the gentry of the county , while the situation was made even more hazardous when David Cunningham , a brother of the laird of Ballindalloch , a gentleman who could not be ranked among Montrose 's friends , also came forward , but with the support of two important lairds , Colonel Blackadder , and Callendar of Craigforth , to both of whom , as Montrose ruefully remarked , he had obligations . |
| 6 | Chapters Four to Seven , which present the research findings , examine : whether the project made any difference to those who received it , compared with those who did not , in terms of institutionalisation , mental or emotional well-being , self-care capacity or receipt of other community services ( Chapter Four ) ; the effects of the project upon the principal informal carers of the dementia sufferers ( Chapter Five ) ; the major costs of community care for those receiving or not receiving support from the project ( Chapter Six ) ; and the limits to care , that is , the characteristics or circumstances of those who could not be supported at home for long even with the Home Support Project ( Chapter Seven ) . |
| 7 | The proposals , based on the premise that " cosmopolitan " laws put French people at a disadvantage , effectively placed immigrants in a separate category of those who could not be joined by their families and should not be eligible for certain benefits , while French people would take priority for jobs and housing . |
| 8 | Sequential data were not available for the patients in the control group who were intubated and ventilated , nor for the NIPPV patients who could not be treated with nasal ventilation . |
| 9 | It was therefore recognised that there might well be some dementia sufferers who could not be helped by this project because their needs would be so great that they would be more expensive to meet in the community than in an institution . |
| 10 | We heard that some bishops had sent on training courses in preparation for ordination people who could not be ordained because they had been divorced and were remarried . |
| 11 | Again , a film 's flaws did little irreparable damage to Crawford , who could not be judged simply on his acting performance , but also for the energy and dedication he put into making his character real — and the fact that everyone knew that he was really running to professional standards . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It paid dividends for Rogers , who could not be classed as one of the longest drivers . |
| 20 | Up to 1980 the supplementary benefit regulations permitted claimants in residential homes who could not be catered for by the local authority an amount sufficient to meet reasonable board and lodging charges in the area . |
| 21 | George Stephen was not so poor an historian as to refuse credit to other parliamentarians such as Lushington , Brougham and Denman who could not be accounted Claphamites , nor to nonconformity in the country , nor to Emmanuel Cooper the Quaker for his work in the Agency nor Cropper and Sturge for their financial support of the Agency . |
| 22 | Some people may sprint when they run , but I have seen people running for the bus who could not be described as sprinting . |
| 23 | So we had to arrange transport for women who could not be accompanied to the group . |
| 24 | Garland ( 1985a ) notes three themes in their programme : reform , prevention — and extinction ; those who could not be reformed were to be eliminated . |
| 25 | He thus remained an enigma , a man who could not be known as most politicians were known and who seemed to shun such contacts . |
| 26 | Baxter was a man who could not be bought with a bribe or silenced by threats or prison . |
| 27 | Discovering there was no one — almost no one — who could not be bought . ’ |
| 28 | But this one who could not be named with impunity , who could not be copied without distortion , still remained very much beyond our ken . |
| 29 | One group that was frequently excluded was the poor — those who could not be guaranteed to be able to pay their own funeral expenses . |
| 30 | Working with a group of trainee student teachers and a class of 6 year olds , he began a graphic story of a fictional medieval knight living in a castle who could not be bothered to lock the postern gate one dark , cold , rainy night . |