Example sentences of "could [adv] [vb infin] [pos pn] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In between the publication of the White Paper and the passing of the new Act , the government decided that in view of the work required on the hospital services , it could not expect its community care proposals to be ready by the proposed launch date of April 1991 , so in early 1990 it announced a two-year delay in implementation until 1993 . |
| 2 | Christie will face a strong line-up , including Michael Rosswess , the Birchfield Harrier who won both his international 60 metres races in Glasgow last winter but could not clinch his Auckland trip . |
| 3 | In a rather different example from the same period , Scottish TV was so short of cash by February 1970 that it could not pay its ITA rental , nor the levy , nor its bills , nor get further credit from the bank . |
| 4 | I could not see my mother sine she had got herself well hidden behind my father so I rushed to the house , through the open french windows , saw my wife sideways on to me gazing at a blank wall and screamed , " See what 's happening — our baby to be plastered over half of some alien landscape ! |
| 5 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , notwithstanding the general principle that a trading or non-trading corporation was entitled to sue in libel to protect so much of its corporate reputation , as distinct from that of its members , as was capable of being damaged by a defamatory statement , a local authority , as a corporate public authority , was not entitled at common law to sue for libel to protect its governing reputation ; that to allow it to do so would impose a substantial and unjustifiable restriction on freedom of expression , since an action for malicious falsehood , or a prosecution for criminal libel , provided the local authority with the sufficient and necessary protection it required in a democratic society ; and that , therefore , the local authority could not maintain its libel action for any words which reflected on it as the county council for Derbyshire in relation to its governmental and administrative functions in that county ( post , pp. 41H , 48F–G , H — 49B , 56B–C , 58A–B , 59F–G , 65B–C , F ) . |
| 6 | As Australia 's forward coach , Evans did great work when he helped Alan Jones but the season before last he could not complete his coaching contract with the Gordon Club in Sydney because of his illness . |
| 7 | He said Munn got involved in the plan after meeting two men in a pub in Belfast and ‘ bemoaning ’ he could not afford his car insurance after a court appearance for non-payment . |
| 8 | When Mr John Guy , an orthopaedic surgeon at the Worcester Royal Infirmary , wrote to people on his waiting list to say that health authority cuts meant that they could not have their hip replacement operations , a patient passed a copy of his letter to Nicholas Ridley . |
| 9 | Shearson Lehman analyst David Readerman , who raised his Microsoft rating to a ‘ strong buy ’ following the court ruling , said the company could easily adapt its Windows programme if the judge ruled against it on the remaining issues . |
| 10 | Once , she would have laid down her life for this man , and the memory of that devotion could still make her soul weep . |
| 11 | He could n't ignore his gut instinct , which had never failed him yet . |
| 12 | I did n't want to work in a place where I could n't wear my fur coat . |
| 13 | But doctors say a smaller chair could n't take her body weight . |
| 14 | cos I have n't got , got to contact him tomorrow , cos I could n't find his telephone number |
| 15 | I 'm off for cos I have got no work experience cos and she could n't get me work experience in June and now everybody else is in work experience I get the week off . |
| 16 | Wryly he added , ‘ I could n't allow my ewe lamb be torn to pieces by those talons … ’ |
| 17 | Despite encouragement , he still could n't call his stepfather dad . |
| 18 | Except of course , I er , I , I could n't read my road map there in , in Brussels . |
| 19 | The brothers could almost hear her heart beating . |
| 20 | In the long silence that stretched between them she could almost hear her heart pounding like a sledge-hammer in her chest . |
| 21 | The Captain could almost hear his heart beating , not to mention the Mate 's teeth chattering . |
| 22 | People could either have their money back or tickets for another evening . |
| 23 | And presumably if you wanted to revise a book at all , and you had the book on your floppy disk or in your computer in some for , you could again use your word processor to bring it up to date in a revised version . |
| 24 | And presumably if you wanted to revise a book at all and you had the book on your floppy disk or in your computer in some form , you could again use your word processor to bring it up to date in a revised version ? |
| 25 | I waved frantically , but this time I could actually sense my body temperature falling rapidly with the physical exertion . |