Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] [prep] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , the hospital 's psychiatric unit could not cope with bed blocking : occupancy often reaches 90% in spring and autumn , leaving inadequate space for emergency admissions . |
| 2 | John Neville 's inactivity in the face of Edward 's advance surely owed something to awareness that he could not rely on duchy support . |
| 3 | John Neville 's inactivity in the face of Edward 's advance surely owed something to awareness that he could not rely on duchy support . |
| 4 | Certainly the general belief was that , having wantonly thrown away a Conservative majority , Baldwin could not remain as Party leader let alone Prime Minister ; and Randolph Churchill , the biographer of Lord Derby , comments that ‘ It is interesting to notice in Derby 's correspondence , and in that of other leading Tories of the time , how for the first two or three weeks after the Party 's defeat in the Election there was an unchallenged assumption that Baldwin could not survive the catastrophe . ’ |
| 5 | By the Tuesday of the first week , Cassie knew that she could not stay at Rose Cottage any longer . |
| 6 | McCoist could not train at McDiarmid Park yesterday , which made him no different from half of Roxburgh 's squad , but is healing at an encouraging rate . |
| 7 | HE has already won novice chases at Cheltenham and Bangor and we hope he will win a few more , although he could n't cope with Barton Bank at Worcester recently . |