Example sentences of "could [not/n't] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Blake could not be exchanged the only alternative was to get him out of prison . |
| 2 | The decision in Pickstone v. Freemans Plc. [ 1989 ] A.C. 66 which authorises the court to look at ministerial statements made in introducing regulations which could not be amended by Parliament is logically indistinguishable from such statements made in introducing a statutory provision which , though capable of amendment , was not in fact amended . |
| 3 | The early light was damp and fresh as the clay when she slipped the wedding band from her finger , putting it carefillly on the shelf , where it could not be lost . |
| 4 | But the story could not be shut up with him , and before another week had passed they had been forced to commit to the Tower six more persons , four friars minor , Stephen Lene , parson , and the prior of the friars preachers of Winchelsea . |
| 5 | They are one of the few reactors in the country which , if anything went wrong with the core in any way , could not be shut down . |
| 6 | Such information was ‘ entirely accurate and provable ’ , but the files themselves could not be inspected . |
| 7 | The land could not be inspected because Dr. Rufford did not own it so he made sure that the land was not inspected . |
| 8 | With some fish , but particularly carp , a situation was apparent whereby they refused to accept a bait on strong tackle , but could not be landed on tackle fine enough to fool them . |
| 9 | The setting up of the secret camp and the training of the men was a blind and a cover to fool Medoc , and people who said lugubriously that Medoc could not be fooled did not know what they were talking about . |
| 10 | They argued that scientific progress and understanding could not be conceived of as a static process ; with the advance of research into passive smoking , different conclusions might one day become apparent . |
| 11 | Thus in ( 140 ) below the lighting of a fire is presented as a condition which would have permitted Pops to be found sooner , but the fire could not be conceived as acting on Pops directly itself and " making him be found " : ( 140 ) A fire would n't have mattered except that it would cause Pops to be found sooner . |
| 12 | Mallarmé 's line which Eliot quoted in 1926 , discussing ‘ l'halluciné ’ and ‘ un élément d'incantation ’ in poetry , ‘ Donner un sens plus pur aux mots de la tribu ’ , was reinforced by those anthropologists who found that the fundamental mentality of the tribesmen they studied ‘ no doubt … is transmitted socially by means of language and concepts without which it could not be exercised . |
| 13 | Without that the royal authority could not be exercised , and the realm would be like a ship lacking a rudder . |
| 14 | But in addition to the political ideal of the rule of law Hayek also recognizes the need for a set of principles of institutional design to ensure that the power of the state could not be exercised in such a way as to compromise individual liberty . |
| 15 | Reading right-wing papers also made people more inclined to believe the Conservative Party had convincing policies and was likely to keep its promises , that Kinnock was neither decisive , nor trustworthy , nor a good leader of a team , and especially that he could not be relied upon to stand up for British interests against the USSR . |
| 16 | The police commander judged the cordon could not be relied upon to withstand the increasingly aggressive crowd . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | Family help could not be relied on , even in a crisis . |
| 19 | Customs confirmed that parts of the leaflet could not be relied on in a recent appeal at the London VAT Tribunal by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children . |
| 20 | Indeed , Professor Roskell has gone so far as to suggest that the nobility could not be relied upon to attend parliament in the 1350s and 1360s even when they were present in England , and that these parliaments amounted to little more than tax bargaining sessions between the king and the commons . |
| 21 | The court took the view that since the contract was formed at the reception desk , the notice in the bedroom did not form part of the contract , thus it could not be relied upon by the hotel as excluding liability . |
| 22 | MacArthur understood the danger from the Soviet Union and now stated that he knew a Soviet promise to observe Japanese neutrality could not be relied on . |
| 23 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that the liability imposed under section 1(1) of the Act of 1978 was intended by Parliament , by virtue of section 6(1) of the Act , to enable claims for contribution to be made as between parties who had no claim for contribution under the general law , and applied whenever a plaintiff had a cause of action against a third party in respect of the same damage as gave rise to his cause of action against the defendant , irrespective of the legal basis of the liability ; and that , accordingly , the defence of ex turpi causa non oritur actio could not be relied upon in answer to a claim for contribution under the Act ; and that , since there was sufficient possibility of the third party being found liable for some part of the plaintiffs ' loss , there were no grounds for striking out the third party notice ( post , pp. 1022H — 1023A , G–H , 1024G — 1025D ) . |
| 24 | The Panel argued that private enterprise , which had hitherto provided 95 per cent of working-class housing , could not be relied upon to meet this task after the war . |
| 25 | Whitehall officials have often found the concept of regional planning complex and imprecise , discovering that the necessary coordination between departments could not be relied upon . |
| 26 | Similarly , an exclusion clause in the contract between the retailer and the consumer could not be relied upon by the manufacturer . |
| 27 | To suggest that on past form ‘ the Tories ’ could not be relied upon to maintain the association with Russia , the document added : |
| 28 | Yet he soon showed that his word could not be relied upon . |
| 29 | In Rasbora Ltd v JCL Marine Ltd [ 1977 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 645 Lawson J held that a clause in a contract for the sale of a motor yacht which excluded all liability in respect of defects could not be relied upon when an electrical fault resulted in the total loss of the boat within 27 hours of delivery . |
| 30 | On top of Falkenhayn 's natural indecisiveness , the Crown Prince now knew enough of what lay behind his frequent references to ‘ bleeding the French white ’ to suspect that , even once a critical point had been reached in the battle , the C-in-C could not be relied upon to provide replenishments for ‘ heavy sacrifices ’ involved . |