Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | Mortal , I could not bear to be the one who slays the light . |
| 32 | Bowler felt that Minton was happiest when painting and would have been content with a quiet life had he not been driven by a need for others and by the fact that he could not bear to be on his own . |
| 33 | But I could not bear to be supplanted in a view that lay next to my heart by an old acquaintance . |
| 34 | I could not bear to be in France a moment longer : my friends confirmed my impulse . |
| 35 | FitzAlan was holding her as if he would make her part of himself , as if he could not bear to be separate from her . |
| 36 | The truth was that he could not bear to be so close to Chris and yet feel so distant . |
| 37 | He discharged himself from hospital against medical advice , saying he could not bear to be in the same building as Keith Pringle , the man police are waiting to interview about a 47hour armed siege in Darlington . |
| 38 | Mr Ward , 20 , of Westminster Road , Darlington , left hospital in Middlesbrough a month ago against medical advice because he could not bear to be in the same building as Keith Pringle . |
| 39 | Mr Ward , of Westminster Road , Darlington , left Middlesbrough General Hosptal , against medical advice because he could not bear to be in the same building as gunman Keith Pringle . |
| 40 | Mademoiselle do believe me , begged Mary-Lou in despair , for she could not bear to be scolded like that . |
| 41 | He could not want to be kind , could not love the tarnished and ruined thing Sally-Anne Tunstall was , but she looked at him all the same . |
| 42 | He had been cunning , arriving so early that she could not pretend to be rushing to work . |
| 43 | But she was not the same as them , she could not pretend to be . |
| 44 | Pat was bewildered , unable to understand why Eileen could not wait to be married from home , but by the next post Maureen and Anne received ecstatic letters from her and tried to reconcile their father to the idea of the wedding . |
| 45 | It could not afford to be seen as a drain on the taxpayer and it should be relevant to the times . |
| 46 | ‘ The national interest ’ was also a rebuff to congressmen , who could not afford to be critical of it , even when they already knew it as grounds to keep them in the dark . |
| 47 | Javier de la Puerta , chief spokesman for the World Fair , said the recent blows to ETA were ‘ very good news ’ but added that Expo organisers could not afford to be complacent . |
| 48 | With this end in view the United States could not afford to be seen by the USSR as firmly aligned with Great Britain . |
| 49 | Sara did not care to be beholden to Matthew Preston for even one pupil , but she knew at this moment she could not afford to be choosey . |
| 50 | It found it ‘ indisputable that under Article 103 of the Charter the Member State called upon to apply the sanctions could not claim to be debarred from doing so by a treaty binding it to the non-Member State which was the subject of the sanctions . ’ |
| 51 | Some NAM members , including Egypt , Iran , Malaysia and Pakistan , tried unsuccessfully to secure the expulsion of the FRY delegation on the grounds that it could not claim to be the rightful successor of the former Yugoslav state . |
| 52 | Their squad could just prove to be too big , ie Ferguson may not know who to pick . |
| 53 | He was stationed in an old chapel in Chuckery because the Americans once they 'd started they were putting them everywhere or anywhere they could just get to be with them before V Day they were even in little chapels , churches , outhouses anywhere they could possibly and there were guns and bits of trucks on every spot of land where they could get them the er , I 'm getting out of context I was just thinking about a tank , a First World War tank that they used to have those as well in the field gun in the er arboretum which were disappeared soon after the war they went for scrap and they came and they used , people used to have a lot of wrought iron railings as well they took those as well they came along with burners and went off to the war effort , but er like I say the Americans and of course as kids they were very generous with kids and we absolutely loved them . |
| 54 | The hidden agenda could easily appear to be that " our drama is the least important thing in the school " . |
| 55 | Hooker 's was a name which could hardly fail to be included on the list of those whom the Church wished to commemorate in 1980 . |
| 56 | Similarly , the girls in the scheme could hardly fail to be aware of eyes on them , and of their success in mathematics being of importance to significant others . |
| 57 | Kate could hardly fail to be aware that Ace was now reliving the past . |
| 58 | Muggers who decided to phase out mugging by 1993 could hardly expect to be let off , yet the UK expected to go on breaking the law with impunity . |
| 59 | The men themselves could hardly bear to be above ground ; at least down below they had each other . |
| 60 | She could hardly bear to be contradicted , and no good mother , in my mother 's view , would send her child to stay with a daft person . |