Example sentences of "they could [adv] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could n't avoid being seen together and she braced herself for the blast from Georg and from her parents . |
| 2 | What they could n't do was perform meaningless calculations and relate them to situations which were equally meaningless to them . |
| 3 | What they could n't see was the sadness in the eyes behind the mask . |
| 4 | They could n't have been better . ’ |
| 5 | Singer Richard Fairbrass , stormed at the duo at No.12 with Magic Friend : ‘ They could n't have been at the same show . |
| 6 | The trestle-tables were full ; people drinking , eating and reading ; the Germans we had teamed up with for part of the way back looking smug , though they could n't have been down much before us . |
| 7 | They could n't have been . |
| 8 | And we were called into this long room at the erm it was at House at and er there was all these well I considered them to be old men , they could n't have been so old you see but I was only a boy . |
| 9 | They could n't have been more wrong if they 'd worn Father Christmas suits . |
| 10 | They could n't have been so very far behind them — in fact they should have passed them unless — unless Silas had decided to turn along the road that would take them to the bush walk . |
| 11 | If that 's what United were thinking they could n't have been more wrong . |
| 12 | I mean , so they could n't have been for er er Germany . |
| 13 | Nearby branches of Books Etc were untouched — although of course they could not avoid being affected by the disruption that was caused by the bomb to trading in the area . |
| 14 | But it was still very difficult , because every day I was in London I was moving from one business to the other and they could not have been more different in character . |
| 15 | ‘ I am dependent on people with whom I have been associated in the past inviting me and I must say they could not have been more gracious . ’ |
| 16 | Secondly , the reformed monasteries of the tenth century were of necessity largely aristocratic in composition , and had they been perceived to have no function in aristocratic society , they could not have been as successful as they were . |
| 17 | They could not have been less trouble , leaving the house at ten in the morning and not returning until nine in the evening , having already dined . |
| 18 | Areas of trapped sediment within these gullies were screened and the bones recovered , but the original position of the scats could not be determined ( Andrews & Evans , 1983 ) , although from the nature of the scat site they could not have been more than 20 metres away . |
| 19 | New labourers came out , many from Ireland where pressure on land was unusually severe ; they came from southern Irish ports , so they could not have been directly affected by the English conquest and the Scottish settlement of Ulster at the beginning of the seventeenth century , but possibly Irish landlords felt that it no longer made sense to keep up private armies and turned men out of service for this reason . |
| 20 | They could not have been long fledged ; the white on their bellies still had a downy look . |
| 21 | Under the old law they could not have been found guilty of larceny , because the seller agreed to transfer the property in the goods to Ballay , and the fact that the seller 's agreement was obtained by a fraud does not affect that conclusion . |
| 22 | The internal hierarchies of the print system were of course broadly coherent with more general social hierarchies , or they could not have been so effective . |
| 23 | We remember the great names like Lyell or Darwin , and forget the supporting cast without which they could not have been stars : those in museums classifying their findings . |
| 24 | They could not have been more than fifteen , but their faces were heavily coated with cosmetics , and they were dressed with a tawdry precociousness which allowed no illusions as to their innocence . |
| 25 | Leather Lane is a weekday market so they could not have been bought there before Monday , and the bags must have been dropped into the letterbox later that morning . |
| 26 | But if these light rays were swallowed up by the black hole , then they could not have been on the boundary of the black hole . |
| 27 | The sulphites had been negligently left in the underwear by the defendants during the manufacturing process , although they could not have been detected by any reasonable examination . |
| 28 | Here , I used four different designs as they add interest , but they could easily have been four matching designs . |
| 29 | The pair say they could both have been killed if neighbours had n't woken them up . |
| 30 | The anatomy of living things is so complex and delicate that they could only have been created by a Supreme Creator . |