Example sentences of "could [not/n't] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our economic policies in the epoch of so-called ‘ war communism ’ … could not be policies aimed at developing the productive forces . |
| 2 | The plaintiffs submit that if maladministration includes the provision by an employee of a negligent valuation , then the result would be anomalous because , as is common ground , the provision of such a report by an independent surveyor could not be maladministration . |
| 3 | I realised that that was an absurdity … after the evidence that India could not be part of the same political system , I still believed for a short time that an Empire of positions — that is to say the possession of points of communication around the globe — gave a significance to this country and a tenable and lasting position . |
| 4 | It follows that the two articles in the Sunday Times could not be part of a ‘ successful dirty tricks campaign ’ by Murrin . |
| 5 | The political élite regarded the situation after December 1848 as one which would be finite , destined to end in 1852 with the election of a new President , who could not be Louis-Napoleon since the Constitution precluded a second term . |
| 6 | The experts said the most amazing part of Mr Major 's announcement was that he saw no reason why Diana could not be Queen . |
| 7 | It could not be Pen , whose voice these days in all its guises was strong and most unchildlike . |
| 8 | Tom told himself that beggars could not be choosers and if he jibbed at playing the flute in this company he could always sing . |
| 9 | She knew at once it could not be Ruth . |
| 10 | Tretorn , in filing its complaint , believes that the EC Commission 's lawyers may have missed the significance of the word in dispute ( ‘ type ’ ) because the LTA 's previous ball agreement , ( ie the one that the EC Commission was asked to consider ) contained no written reference to pressureless tennis balls , therefore ensuring that it could not be party to such vital information . |
| 11 | Team one they want to put out more in the first division and , I could not be party to that team one and it was an atrocity to use such terminology . |
| 12 | Something so enjoyed could not be sound . |
| 13 | Lord Roskill , in the course of a speech concurred in by Lords Fraser of Tullybelton , Edmund-Davies , Brandon of Oakbrook and Brightman , referred , at p. 331 , to Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 with apparent approval as having set out the four elements involved in the offence of theft and as having rejected the argument that there could not be theft within section 1(1) if the owner of the property had consented to the defendant 's acts . |
| 14 | It is true that I can not become you , you can not become me and Blake could not be Beethoven . |
| 15 | That given , the Burkian thesis must work itself out inexorably to the separation and independence not only of the great colonies ( in the original sense of that word ) but of every island and speck of rock on the globe : where there could not be representation in a common sovereign assembly , ‘ unity ’ would only be de facto and on sufference , and thus diminishing with the passage of time — organic it could never be . |
| 16 | At the window they laughed together and bit a knuckle , like children or housemaids — watching avidly , they saw the two boys get out of a car that could not be Robert 's . |
| 17 | ‘ I knew it could not be Wednesday , it is Faith Lavender who comes on Wednesdays . |
| 18 | Moreover , the election plan , Shamir said , was aimed only at the " inhabitants of Judaea , Samaria [ the West Bank ] and Gaza " ; PLO representatives and East Jerusalem Arabs could not be participants . |
| 19 | Surely it could n't be BALLOON , Dedicated 's answer to The Two Ronnies ? |
| 20 | ‘ She said it could n't be Rebel that had killed the lamb . |
| 21 | Surely it could n't be Jake ? she thought in startled panic . |
| 22 | This child could n't be Maria Luisa 's ! |
| 23 | It could n't be Dr Kent ; she hardly knew him , she 'd only spoken to him three times , and then briefly . |
| 24 | He could n't be part of their brotherhood but he wanted to be among them . |
| 25 | He was avid for news of how it was all going , and regretting that he could n't be part of it . |
| 26 | ‘ Then it was realised that the collection could n't be part of Backhouse , because a lot of the specimens had been collected before Backhouse was even born . ’ |
| 27 | Er , I just think yo er , you know , you could n't be bit for that . |
| 28 | So you could n't be bit for that . |
| 29 | And it could n't be starter Captain Keith Brown , who allegedly rejected the possibility of using a different system TWO MONTHS before the race . |
| 30 | It could be and then again could n't be shingles . |