Example sentences of "[noun sg] could [not/n't] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just because you 're the poor fish my daughter married ; but then the unfortunate girl could n't get a better catch in her particular sea . ’ |
| 2 | Even money could not buy a quick passage through some of the conditions met with on the unimproved roads of the early eighteenth century . |
| 3 | The West could not fight a conventional war in Europe with any hope of success . |
| 4 | It appears reasonable to claim that a man without the capacity to put himself in another 's place could not understand a moral appeal ( even if he should happen to be a law-abiding man who accepts commands and prohibitions on external authority ) , just as someone incapable of shifting temporal viewpoints could not understand an appeal to his future interests . |
| 5 | By the early 1890s the view was widespread that Japan 's own security could not afford a weak , Chinese-dominated Korea , which could offer no barrier to Russian advance . |
| 6 | All the efforts of the Ministry of Education could not produce a sufficient flow of educated recruits from the landed nobility . |
| 7 | It announced that , if doctrine as opposed to Bible stories was to be a part of school education , then such religious education could not adopt a common denominator approach between the churches , but had to be total in its presentation of what the Roman catholic church considered to be the truth , otherwise such an approach would be ‘ dangerous ’ for the children ( Gaine 1968 : 164 ) . |
| 8 | His RCM contact could not resist a snide comment : ‘ It is extraordinary that a boy of fifteen should have such a very high opinion of his capabilities . ’ |
| 9 | It was clear , however , that such restraint could not survive a serious clash between civil rights demonstrators and the police or counter-demonstrators . |
| 10 | This potential pathway could not guarantee a peaceful transition to socialism , but a militant working class advancing on both the political and industrial fronts simultaneously might avert the need for an insurrectionary capture of the state . |
| 11 | Hamlet [ his father could n't afford a large cigar when he was born ] , steadied himself against a stanchion on the underside of the rig . |
| 12 | Hence Structure Planning could not provide a unified scheme for the area . |
| 13 | How do you mean when I was young , Douglas , I 'm not old now , not so old a dog could n't teach a young pup like you a few new tricks . |
| 14 | The Captain could n't avoid a swift glance at the shiny dome flanked by two tufts of grey hair . |
| 15 | no completely void because you ca n't severe the good from the bad in section fourteen , your Lordship could n't take a blue pencil and , and , and find some words in section fourteen which say erm , you know , I can take out an article eighty five claim or I can allow an article eighty five claim but I can leave something else in |
| 16 | If the House was worried , the government could not refuse a full explanation nor could it return to its other business till members were satisfied . |
| 17 | And the championship could n't have a better launch on Friday morning when Carrickfergus ' Michael McHugh meets Paul Daly of Belmont in the opening U-25 singles semi-final . |
| 18 | Relaxing against the comforting wall of his chest , Folly could n't resist a little teasing . |
| 19 | So the ambassador could not take a single firm line . |
| 20 | Another answer would be that economic or racial diversity could not mask a common drift in all countries towards similar economic arrangements . |
| 21 | Comments such as these are quite common : e.g. " I 'll have nothing to do with religion — that vicar down the road could n't care a damn for anyone . " |
| 22 | The Court of Appeal made it clear that an employer could not use a restrictive covenant in an employment contract to protect confidential information unless that information could be classified as a trade secret or equivalent . |
| 23 | Some limit was placed on the company 's power to create charges having priority to the floating charge by the decision of Sargant J. that a company could not create a floating charge on the same assets ranking in priority to or pari passu with the original floating charge . |
| 24 | The dock company could not operate a commercial port at the dockyard without disturbing nearby residents . |
| 25 | General results in the theory of computation might throw light on animal perception , by showing that a given type of representation in principle could not express a certain type of information , or that it would he enormously less efficient than most other type . |
| 26 | President France-Albert René , who seized power in a coup in 1977 , had previously resisted pressure to end one-party rule on the grounds that the country could not afford a plural system . |
| 27 | With all the work she had to do my mother could not do a sloppy job . |
| 28 | Even here Russia 's middle class could not mount a significant campaign . |