Example sentences of "could not be [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later that night , drinking champagne at the first night party , he gave me his usual disclaimers ; how it was all an illusion , everything was an illusion , all life was an illusion , and how he , Sir Tom , was the master of illusion , but how his dear children were real because they alone could not be spawned from the imagination . |
| 2 | The policy regarding transfusion of red cells was as previously described ; staff present at delivery could not be blinded to the treatment group but were seldom responsible for ordering transfusion . |
| 3 | Councillor Sullivan said the issue could not be raised at the council last night because the council was the body of his final appeal . |
| 4 | Councillor Sullivan said the issue could not be raised at the council last night because the council was the body of his final appeal . |
| 5 | This type of skepticism had been sustained by the knowledge that the mathematical devices used by Ptolemy could not be squared with the homocentric spheres of Aristotelian cosmology . |
| 6 | The national liberal politician , Johannes von Miquel , wrote that ‘ the suggested constitution could not be compared with the Swiss or American model ’ , adding for good measure that ‘ great peoples do not copy ’ . |
| 7 | The report said that the mistreatment of ethnic Serbs in Croatia " however repugnant " could not be compared with the " systematic use of violence employed against ethnic Croatians and Moslems in Bosnia-Hercegovina " . |
| 8 | Some Tory loyalist backbenchers said last night that this episode could not be compared to the attack on Mrs Thatcher by the then Sir Geoffrey Howe , which is acknowledged to have cost her the keys to No. 10 . |
| 9 | The Doctor was left to wave his arms and shout ; he could not be heard above the din . |
| 10 | A senior NICRA member appealed to the crowd to eschew violence , but could not be heard above the din . |
| 11 | Anxious that nothing should disturb her aunt , Alexandra had the hens moved to a small paddock the far side of the stables so that their greedy shouting for breakfast could not be heard in the house . |
| 12 | Emily Davison and friends such as Mary Leigh , Rose Lamartine Yates , Elinor Penn-Gaskell , Edith Mansell-Moullin , Mabel Capper , and Gladys Evans represented the socialist and pacifist opposition within the WSPU : women who were nationally known and admired and consequently could not be banished from the organization . |
| 13 | In the 1860s and 1870s , the evolutionists turned to morphology , the detailed study of animal structure , as a means of working out relationships that could not be traced in the fossil record . |
| 14 | Although these groups were often closely associated with the Francoist regime , their interests could not be expressed through the limited channels of the Francoist state . |
| 15 | Moral behaviour was behaviour that accorded with what was expected from a particular social role or situation , and could not be defined outside the social context . |
| 16 | In the opinion of Melanie Clore there is no reason to believe that such prices could not be repeated at the present time . |
| 17 | Archaeological evidence shows that occupation of the lowlands in the last 3000 years was achieved by long-range dispersals from the north-west of groups with three ceramic traditions , though these declined in complexity as they could not be sustained by the terra firme environment . |
| 18 | At the LCY central committee plenum in October Simic also said that the new programme of reform could not be implemented by the LCY , and he called for a referendum on these questions and on the Constitution . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , acute and chronic pancreatitis could not be separated in the discharge statistics before 1977 . |
| 20 | But reform could not be separated from the rising tide of political nationalism and Kossuth 's and Széchenyi 's fates became entwined . |
| 21 | It was further stated that such an assessment was ‘ first and foremost ’ a matter for the Council , and that the obligation to abolish restrictions on movements of capital could not be separated from the Council 's assessment of the need to liberalize the category of transactions in question . |
| 22 | Because of the common frontier between the two countries , and also because of considerable French economic interests which had grown during the period of the Second Empire , whatever happened on the far side of the Pyrenees could not be ignored by the government in Paris . |
| 23 | Cirencester could not be ignored by the Royalists . |
| 24 | In a divorce case , a Dutchwoman was unable to prove actual service of process on her husband in Great Britain , so by virtue of Article 15(1) judgment could not be given in the matter ; the court , however , was prepared to give judgment in default under Article 15(2) , the Netherlands having made the necessary declaration , once the petitioner could satisfy it as to the items listed in that provision . |
| 25 | It was placed so it could not be seen by the customer . |
| 26 | In midwinter the track beneath this bridge became a muddy morass , so at night , when he could not be seen by the signalman in Swithland box , he and his dog , who were inseparable , used to cross over the railway lines . |
| 27 | The car could not be seen from the house because of the shelter of trees . |
| 28 | Tall and strong , he was unusual in regularly bowling from wide of the crease , sometimes even so wide that his hand could not be seen against the sightscreen , which obviously caused the batsman trouble . |
| 29 | Russia had previously insisted that its troops could not be withdrawn from the Baltic states before 1997-99 because of the difficulties of housing returning servicemen . |
| 30 | Should it be desired to alter this state of affairs , there would be many who would assert that the change could not be made without the consent of the part of the United Kingdom affected , however it were to be expressed . |