Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One great comber filled the canoe before she shook free from the cascading crests ; now they could not expect to make much headway and had to fight even harder to avoid broaching-to . |
| 2 | With such a poorly developed social structure the Jews were very important to Prussian Poland : without their skills Prussian society could not hope to make Ost-Elbian society more hospitable and attractive to settlers and could hardly hope to persuade the border Poles to become Germans . |
| 3 | Beth could not bear to witness such humiliation , and so she averted her gaze and returned to her work . |
| 4 | This is the Marmeladov who married his present wife — not that that did any good either — because he could not bear to see such suffering . |
| 5 | Even after such a long absence from home , Leopold could not bear to waste any opportunity of showing off his brilliant children , so , instead of going straight back to Salzburg , they took a tortuous route through Dijon , Lyons , Switzerland , Donaueschingen and Augsburg to Munich , where Leopold even contemplated extending the trip to Italy . |
| 6 | I could not bear to touch that part of the body . |
| 7 | Despite strenuous effects to commit resources to services for people with learning disabilities , Nottinghamshire social services department could not avoid making this policy decision — a decision which was sorely tested . |
| 8 | These meetings were originally suggested during the 1860s as a solution for visitors who could not manage to visit individual homes regularly enough . |
| 9 | Jean-Claude was telling Otto that Ahmed could not imagine loving another woman . |
| 10 | Rachaela could not recall coming this way in the past , but she must have done , for she had surely explored all the house . |
| 11 | The defendant had argued that this information , ie the knowledge that the combination of the two ingredients produced an effective drier could not be protected by an injunction since the knowledge of that combination was knowledge which the second defendant must inevitably have taken away from the plaintiffs when he left their employment and that he could not proceed to expunge that knowledge from his mind . |
| 12 | Even those writers who specifically warned against using the historical experiences of contemporary rich countries as a guide for the Third World could not resist drawing some conclusions from the realm of foreign trade . |
| 13 | I was certainly to do with feeling that I would have to be a little bit slimmer , that I would have to be acceptable to other people , that I would have to change my shape and at the same time , I could not resist consuming large amounts of food . |
| 14 | Menshikov could not afford to devote much time to his Finnish duties , but " identified Finland with his own authority " . |
| 15 | He said the firm could not afford to ignore such losses as they could put the jobs of 1,300 employees in jeopardy . |
| 16 | The Cuban leader could not afford to allow anti-Soviet feeling to take a hold amongst the population . |
| 17 | He , therefore , could not afford to support illegal methods , which would give the opposition in parliament and the middle class , in general , genuine grounds for opposing him . |
| 18 | Further , many could not afford to undertake such pomp as they had neither the capital , credit facilities , stock , staff nor expertise ; some simply did not have the inclination to become involved . |
| 19 | While I could not afford to buy new books , I get what I like from the local library . |
| 20 | When crops failed , people could not afford to buy imported rice anyway , though in some districts a number of villagers received income from seasonal work on plantations . |
| 21 | Miss X and her fiance could not afford to buy another property , so she asked Glasgow District Council to repurchase the house so that her parents could stay on as tenants . |
| 22 | Yet the contradiction as seen by Castells was that capital , if it was to remain profitable , could not afford to provide such facilities itself . |
| 23 | This monopoly was defended in the same way as that of the East India Company : the Royal Africa Company had to meet the expenses of building and manning forts on the West African coast as protection against other Europeans , and private traders could not have undertaken fixed costs of this sort . |
| 24 | We could not have sustained many Nuremburgs when we lost more aircrew in one night than was lost in the entire Battle of Britain ( in several months ) . |
| 25 | If Mr. Howell 's argument is correct , the school , even though over-subscribed , could not have adopted these sibling and proximity criteria in deciding which of the applicants ' parental preferences were to succeed and which fail . |
| 26 | Of course , I could not have expressed this view to Mr Farraday without embarking upon what might have seemed a presumptuous speech . |
| 27 | Surely that gun could not have wreaked this havoc ! |
| 28 | I could not have received better treatment anywhere in the world . |
| 29 | I would not think of him as evil , but he could not have felt real love for me . |
| 30 | She could not have believed ten years could so alter two people . |