Example sentences of "[noun sg] could [not/n't] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Biggerstaff 's Metro 6R4 suffered a puncture on his first run but even a courageous charge at the second attempt could n't displace Woodside at the top of the list . |
| 2 | Roger From the Practice could n't tell emphysema from the common cold . |
| 3 | Such a contribution can not be assessed , but assuredly , the research could not take place without it . |
| 4 | Such a contribution can not be assessed , but assuredly , the research could not take place without it . |
| 5 | In this state the electron could not radiate energy in the form of electromagnetic waves because there would be no lower energy state for it to go to . |
| 6 | Morality could not take precedence in the determination of foreign policy because of structural differences between the setting for individual behaviour and the setting for international behaviour . |
| 7 | ( We have taken care here to ensure that an unscrupulous user could not make use of the calculus of expressions to reason about the large scale structure of programs . |
| 8 | With respect to the Secretary of State , I believe that most right hon. and hon. Members found very unconvincing his explanation as to why such a provision could not form part of the Bill . |
| 9 | It was too much , too soon because his development as a person could n't keep pace with his progress as a tennis player . |
| 10 | Increasing problems of indebtedness meant that railway development could not keep pace with changing population patterns . |
| 11 | Somewhere along the line , Cat and Prince 's Paisley Park organisation could n't see eye to eye . |
| 12 | Oxford Regional Health Authority explained why it went back on the original decision saying , ’ We understood that the law said quite clearly the health authority could not provide treatment in private homes . |
| 13 | surveyor could not gain access to roof voids but concluded was in reasonable condition for its age . |
| 14 | The members of the commission could not gain entry to north Korea and could not observe the nature of elections there . |
| 15 | In all of this it has been assumed that the general rule applies and that X , not being the owner could not confer ownership on Y who in turn could not confer ownership on Z. It now remains to examine those exceptional situations where the original owner may lose his ownership , i.e. where title may be conferred by someone who himself has no title . |
| 16 | In all of this it has been assumed that the general rule applies and that X , not being the owner could not confer ownership on Y who in turn could not confer ownership on Z. It now remains to examine those exceptional situations where the original owner may lose his ownership , i.e. where title may be conferred by someone who himself has no title . |
| 17 | Despite the imposition of price controls , his government could not win acceptance for its pay restraint policy on the part of the TUC . |
| 18 | The process of conception as such is not affected , and the scientist no more ‘ creates ’ a baby than does the obstetrician who performs a Caesarean section , an operation which has saved the lives of countless mothers and babies in situations where birth could not take place by the natural route . |
| 19 | ‘ that , although , by the indulgence of the court , a statutory tenant might be permitted to continue to occupy premises after the making of an order for possession , he was not , during such a period of occupation , a statutory tenant with all the rights to protection conferred by the Rent Restriction Acts which he had enjoyed before the order for possession was made ; and , consequently , the daughter could not claim protection as a ‘ tenant ’ under section 12 , subsection ( 1 ) … ’ |
| 20 | Morgenthau could not rest content with defining power in a way consistent with the rest of his theory , because the theory needed anchoring by means of an objective definition of its key concepts . |
| 21 | However , if the relevant project could not take place at all without cooperation , then Article 85(1) will not be infringed . |
| 22 | ‘ With a very great number of credit grantors not being members of any trade association and others being members of more than one , such a system could not give rise to a fair method of raising a levy . |
| 23 | Again in Johnston v Chamberlain ( 1933 ) 17 TC 706 , the taxpayer sought to argue that a payment from a discretionary trust could not give rise to income tax liability on the beneficiary as it was " only when the trustees choose to exercise their discretion by making the payment that the sum gets to the children at all " . |