Example sentences of "could not [be] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | prior to ratification there would always be enabling legislation , incorporating by statute those prospective treaty obligations which could not be given effect under prerogative powers , and required changes to domestic common law or statute . |
| 2 | The Panel said that the conversations imparted material new information which had not been made public or could not be made public . |
| 3 | No , the beautiful objects could not be called proof , but they were a suggestion — the merest indication — that there might be some sort of link between their present owner , the burial mound , and the foresters ' custom described at the farm by Alice . |
| 4 | Accordingly , such a hire-purchase agreement could not be called credit facilities . |
| 5 | It struck her as peculiar that Mr Browning should not have given Mr Surtees Cook his Rome address for this telegram could not be relayed south in under another twenty-four hours and perhaps more . |