Example sentences of "but could not [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With some fish , but particularly carp , a situation was apparent whereby they refused to accept a bait on strong tackle , but could not be landed on tackle fine enough to fool them . |
| 2 | It was considered for use as a barricade but could not be moved without detaching the wings and was therefore left intact ( Corrects September FlyPast ) . |
| 3 | A senior NICRA member appealed to the crowd to eschew violence , but could not be heard above the din . |
| 4 | Significantly , some of the other alleged benefits were flatly contradicted by the employer ; others were found to exist but could not be confirmed in precise financial terms . |
| 5 | It was a habit of disguise that she recognized as costly but could not be rid of . |
| 6 | At that time a diagnosis of sarcoidosis was considered but could not be proved . |
| 7 | She knew what had happened but could not be bothered to deal with it . |
| 8 | Its entrance was discovered in 1950 and two years later this deepest of all gouffres acquired a sad celebrity with the death there of Marcel Loubens , a Belgian speleologist , who was badly injured deep underground but could not be got to the surface quickly enough to save his life , a story I dimly remember reading at the time in newspapers . |
| 9 | And in a way this answer , like the first , was astonishingly appropriate , brandishing a secret truth and a paradox before a man who would have appreciated it to the full , but could not be let into the secret . |
| 10 | Sonar made interesting contacts but could not identify them directly , while passive underwater photography ( photographing whatever passes a given spot ) had the potential to reveal essential detail but could not be expected to make contact without a much sounder basis for deploying the cameras . |
| 11 | Subsidies might be paid in cases of emergency but could not be accounted normal income . |