Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [be] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the stricture could not be adequately dilated and there was minimal or no improvement in symptoms , the response was considered ‘ poor ’ . |
| 2 | If these were things that could not be fully understood or controlled , then they were all the more menacing because they could not be avoided . |
| 3 | The considerable flexibility mentioned earlier could not be better illustrated than through one of John Barker 's much-used parachutes . |
| 4 | Does my hon. Friend agree that our achievements in that aspect of education could not be better illustrated than by that which pertains in Nottinghamshire , where the university now has the highest ratio of applications to available places and where Nottingham polytechnic , which is soon to be a university , is planning to increase its capacity over the next couple of years to 16,000 student places ? |
| 5 | If these forms were not internalized as habitual mental patterns independent of thought , they could not be readily accessed and language could not function effectively as a means of thinking and communicating . |
| 6 | for a general election could not be long delayed after the new franchise came into effect and the war was at a particularly gloomy stage . |
| 7 | The techniques of applied econometrics could not be deployed upon a hypothesis in which most of the relevant variables could not be directly measured and in which the focus of attention was continually shifting sometimes leapfrogging was the problem , sometimes real wage resistance , sometimes a Marxian class struggle for shares in the national income , but at most times some miscellany of all three problems was present contemporaneously . |
| 8 | I should n't think Edouard wants any further investment just now — but if he did , darling , if you have , you know , a little pin money , then , you could n't be better advised than to- ’ |