Example sentences of "could not [be] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They missed the train connection in Glasgow which meant that they could not be at the hotel by seven o'clock . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't say the man could not be of the highest value , if he did not ruin everything he touches with his implacable spleen . |
| 3 | Nor would there be any point in living in such a village unless one were largely prepared to conform to its public mores since otherwise one could not be within the community in any real sense . |
| 4 | And there was no reason why NoS could not be like the Sun and still talk to the left . |
| 5 | You could not be in the room next to mine , but you were in the same city , coming towards me , turning the corner of the square , entering the same street ! |
| 6 | Again , when Jews were refused ordination in the national protestant church in Germany during the Third Reich , the church split , for there were those who said that on principle ( whatever might be the case in the state ) this could not be in the church . |
| 7 | ‘ Then there would have been bloodshed , for I tell you I could not be in the same house with them and keep my temper . |