Example sentences of "could never be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One would never know ; and meantime the devil was in him , Paul Arkwright , in his blood , for life , and he could never be rid of it ; yet he must live , and work , and write , and surely marry . |
| 2 | He could exhibit a saint-like submissiveness , become a mere servant of art , willing to learn from anyone ; he would sit patiently at the bedsides of the sick and dying , painting unhappy men and women and feeling awe before peasant earth-mothers , but he could never be coerced into doing anything against his will . |
| 3 | The guitar is still the one that could never be replaced by anything digital because you would never be able to get the same sound and feel on a computer . |
| 4 | A judgment that could never be applied to either the Edgar Broughton Band or The Deviants , two fabulously freaky bands whose message was delivered with all the subtlety of a Molotov cocktail . |
| 5 | Whereas in Britain , with the growth of suffrage , catholics could never be perceived as a political threat because of the smallness of their numbers , in Ireland , with the growth of the home rule movement and its accompanying nationalism , they could only be perceived as politically , religiously , and nationally subversive and suspicion of them remained . |
| 6 | Guido paused and smiled a crude smile that suggested that the same could never be said about him . |
| 7 | His steam engine was awarded a prize of £100 by the Aeronautical Society for having the greatest power-to-weight ratio of all the fifteen engines exhibited , but unfortunately the triplane could never be tested in the still-air conditions to which it was suited , and so never proved itself to be , if indeed it was , a practical flying machine . |
| 8 | ‘ You both have that golden skin , but yours makes one think of lovely geometrical planes , you 're all bone , she 's got bone too , but what one sees most is contour and colour — no , you are not remotely the same type , she could never be painted by a Modigliani or a Loulou , or a Piero for that matter , she is something between a Titian and a Gainsborough . ’ |
| 9 | Of all lights in the room these make the biggest difference and are a blessing since you can plug them in and put them behind plants , or in corners , or behind large pieces of furniture to give a beautiful , dramatic accent light , creating mood and interest that could never be imagined by day . |
| 10 | Such a suggestion could never be made about Steve Mungall , who seeks out the heart of the action with such relish that you wonder how his 34-year-old legs can keep carrying him forward like a 24-year-old . |
| 11 | There is one allegation that could never be made against Harold Wilson : that he was an anti-Semite . |
| 12 | His recipes could never be mistaken for anything but the recipes of an educated Frenchman . |
| 13 | And her own delicate manual skills could never be hampered by the customised membrane-thin spacesuits that she works in . |
| 14 | Of course the distinction drawn above only remains if we assume that it is possible for us to understand a proposition which we would or could never be justified in believing or could never come to know to be true . |
| 15 | Continuity was assured by the performance becoming enshrined in a religious ritual which could never be broken for fear of offending the gods . |
| 16 | Before they even touched he knew it had been wrong to come , he knew he had reopened a wound that would never heal and could never be soothed by consummation , unless the war should end soon and they should both survive . |
| 17 | Yet this could never be done by interpreting yesterday 's sales figures , which gave information only about products already in the shops . |
| 18 | Yet what could never be achieved via Parliament could be experimented with in more exciting forms in Southampton Row and the network around it . |
| 19 | I could never be vexed with you . ’ |
| 20 | But if every work of art is simply the expression of the artist 's intuition , it is evident that an absolute or complete pattern would be useless , since the intuitions of two different minds could never be expressed by the same form : nor can anything in art be said to have been ‘ done once for all ’ , since if it were ‘ done again ’ by another hand — used , that is , to express the intuition of another spirit — it would be no longer what had been done before . |
| 21 | The movement could never be separated from political questions whatever its leaders wanted , for the question of non-conforming raised the question of establishment , itself a political question dating to the anti-church rate campaigns of the 1830s and the creation of the British Anti-State Church Society by Edward Miall in 1844 . |
| 22 | Equally , the office could never be separated from parliamentary politics , and the frequent elections for the office provided a ready means to measure the strength of political interests . |
| 23 | We might hold that the meaning of a given sentence is so rich and particular that it could never be captured by another sentence in a different language . |
| 24 | The ingenuity of those who devise those schemes is such that it might be rash to say that property could never be comprised in the settlement unless it is charged with rights in favour of others , but I think that as a general rule this must now be the test . |
| 25 | Under ideal conditions it was estimated that ice formation could exert a maximum pressure of around 200 MPa ( at which point the freezing temperature is -22°C ) , but it was appreciated that this theoretical maximum pressure could never be attained under natural conditions , not the least because it far exceeded the tensile strength of most rocks ( around 25 MPa ) . |
| 26 | Robin Leigh-Pemberton , the governor of the Bank of England , in a speech in Hamburg on Jan. 22 , maintained that " the hard ecu would not be victim to the pitfalls of other parallel currency schemes because it would be defined so that it could never be devalued against other ERM currencies in a realignment " . |
| 27 | An initial objection against any easy identification of such a privacy with consciousness is that , when driving , say , the highest level commands to turn the car , keep the accelerator depressed , etc. , would be ‘ inscrutable from below ’ in the way discussed , but the level of those commands could never be identified with consciousness because , as Sartre liked to point out ad nauseam , we can drive ‘ without thinking about it ’ and , moreover , at no danger to the public . |
| 28 | He never wavered from the view that the whole sequence of vertebrate life on earth was an expression of a divine plan , unified into a coherent whole by the rational power of the Creator 's mind , but divided into distinct sections that could never be linked by natural processes . |
| 29 | That was something which could never be established after this lapse of time . |
| 30 | One privilege of his Gascon subjects was that the duchy could never be alienated to anyone except an eldest son — hence the outbreak of conflict under Richard II when John of Gaunt ( the king 's uncle ) was made duke of Aquitaine ( 1390–4 ) . |