Example sentences of "what [pron] could not [vb infin] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1980 , coming back from a hospital in the States where I had been told that I ought to have an operation ( interestingly on my throat — it was as though all the tension caused by what I could not say was caught up there ) , I saw that I had to be free of this . |
| 2 | What I could not say was that , as we two stood in the shadowy parlour , I felt considerably within her spell . |
| 3 | What I could not understand was the absence of consensus among adults as to what constituted death , and as to its meaning . |
| 4 | What she could not decide was whether there had ever been anything to find . |
| 5 | What she could not know was that by refusing to deal with the Protestant threat until the crown matrimonial had been obtained , she would throw away the strongest card in her anti-Protestant hand before having a chance to play it . |
| 6 | What she could not see was what was in his mind . |
| 7 | What he could not see was the restless , self-centred consumerism it would produce . |
| 8 | This Edouard knew : what he could not understand was that in the years since the end of the war Jean-Paul had made no attempt to restore the house . |
| 9 | What he could not foresee was that generals would renew their political role after 1814 , not as representatives of the old order , but as liberal paladins . |
| 10 | What it could not ignore was the threat of European fascism . |