Example sentences of "it could not be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even as this work was being carried out , freight traffic was in decline and BR soon made clear its intention to close the line as it could not be converted to 25 Kv AC . |
| 2 | It may have been an exhibition of the Tennant family wealth but it could not be added to their list of credits . |
| 3 | It did have ethical , social and political implications even for life in the present time , but it could not be reduced to these : rather it set the present in the light of God 's future . |
| 4 | Whatever else Christmas Day at Laura 's might be , it could n't be guaranteed to be quiet , he thought . |
| 5 | I knew it could n't be restored to what it had been in the old days , but there was still room for a club where members had fun rather than did business . |
| 6 | Each horse had his own harness ; and if it could n't be spared to be sent down to the shop for repair , the horseman brought it himself , got it seen to and took it back ready for work on the next day . |