Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The easterners could not complain too bitterly while their exports to Western Europe were growing by double-digit amounts . |
| 2 | Because of his Cartesianism , Malebranche could not go so far as to say that material objects were not really extended or in motion , but Pierre Bayle had argued that such restraint was unjustifiable . |
| 3 | Even Amabel could not go so far as to trouble Gemma . |
| 4 | We then asked him , if he could not go so far as to meet us in full , to introduce an empowering provision . |
| 5 | Several attempts , he wrote , had been made by " former prospectors " to sink upon this lode " but it is heavily watered that they could not go down more than 3 or 4 fathoms deep " . |
| 6 | Without the work of these dedicated men and women the Church could not progress as rapidly as it does . |
| 7 | On a more phenomenological level , if we wanted some visual analogue to the associationist view of mental life we could not do much better than think of one of those ‘ psychedelic ’ slide-shows popular in the late 1960s , in which lights were projected through oil , producing coloured globs which met , merged and repelled in a series of kaleidoscopic patterns . |
| 8 | Her deafness became evident at the age of 12 while she was attending a school run by a Reverend Perry , when she found that she could not hear very well if she sat too far from the teacher , and by the time she was 16 , it had worsened as to become very noticeable and inconvenient to herself . |
| 9 | Yet the Nazis knew that they could not behave too outrageously because there was always the threat that the League of Nations might call in the Poles to annex the city and suppress the NSDAP in the name of European peace . |
| 10 | You could n't leave in less than two days . |
| 11 | But she doubted it would go any further — well , could n't go any further as she was only staying the one night . |
| 12 | Though I could n't go so far as to say that service was included as all the waiters seemed interested in was getting the lights off so they could dance with Sorrel . |
| 13 | ‘ So you could n't go as far as saying who it might have been calling on the Rector at that late hour ? ’ |
| 14 | Elinor was sometimes at a loss for the right word , or name , and then became impatient with herself ; she was often frustrated because she could n't move as swiftly as she did before . |
| 15 | ‘ Come off it , you do consistently well in all your modules — I 've had a word with your course tutor — and as you 've been continually assessed , you could n't flunk now even if you wanted to . |
| 16 | I 'm just gon na ring up cos mum could n't get through yesterday so she 's given me her credit card number to order things . |
| 17 | well I could n't get up there because she know |
| 18 | I could n't run as fast as I would have liked . |