Example sentences of "could not [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It argued that without them : it would not be possible , in practice , to operate a system of resale price maintenance because it would be impracticable for each publisher to specify his own conditions of sale ; booksellers would find it impossible to comply with all the varied terms imposed by different publishers ; booksellers would lose their assurance that they were not being undercut ; and the Association itself could not effectively monitor individual resale agreements . |
| 2 | A dynasty which had ruled a great network of continental territories , larger in geographical extent than those of the Capetian kings of France , could not easily forget that legacy , nor readily adjust to the changed political conditions of the later thirteenth century . |
| 3 | ‘ The principle that a defendant must take the plaintiff as he finds him involves that if a wrongdoer ought reasonably to foresee that as a result of his wrongful act the victim might require medical treatment he is , subject to the principle of novus actus interveniens , liable for the consequences of the treatment applied although he could not reasonably foresee those consequences or that they could be serious . ’ |
| 4 | He realised that the Communist parties had lost touch with their peoples and that he could not logically denounce Stalinist terror and neo-Stalinist stagnation in his own country without accepting the same for the countries which Stalin forcibly incorporated into the Soviet empire . |
| 5 | However , because of what had happened during the last few days , she knew she could not simply let this matter fade from her mind . |
| 6 | Many couples could not even speak each other 's language . |
| 7 | Accents were so strong they could not even understand each other . |
| 8 | However , all policemen belonged to lineages , and consequently the police force could not really handle those events ( such as the Ajdabiya elections ) which resulted in massive mobilization of populations : not because the numbers were too great , but because the police force did not contain enough men uninvolved on either side . |
| 9 | Ceauşescu 's obsession with numbers ought to have been satisfied by the overmanning which already existed in Romanian industry which could not really provide productive employment for the existing population . |
| 10 | But the job advertisements immediately omit people without experience , so therefore Catholics are omitted because they were historically excluded from those types of jobs and could not therefore have any experience . |
| 11 | ‘ In any case , whatever you both felt , I decided that I could not possibly accept these things . |
| 12 | She could not possibly have any guilt in her past . |
| 13 | The scheme did not operate entirely as anticipated : the main departure was that there were some clients for whom the development officers provided no support , either because they were admitted immediately to institutional care ( and the development officers could not always influence this decision in the way they would have liked ) or because the clients did not need or want the services of the project . |
| 14 | Such ties and feelings , however , could not indefinitely resist some erosion as material national interests and priorities began to change . |
| 15 | Since there had been no clear mandate in 1910 and since the Lords could not now force another election , Unionists would have to resist until the government called one themselves . |
| 16 | Many countries of the world could not only make better use of wastes , but increase agricultural production of the crops of which surplus produce could best be used to manufacture fuels . |
| 17 | The surface microenvironment could not only influence initial immobilisation and orientation , but also antibody conformation and effectiveness . |
| 18 | In the lighted deckhouse he could not only see old Willis , fiddling about with what looked like tins and glasses , but Janet , wearing her other trouser suit . |
| 19 | A single fallen leaf can smother a wide area of seedlings and it is perhaps no surprise then to learn that it has such a large seed , which could not only penetrate this mass but have enough stores to supply a seedling as it grew up through it . |
| 20 | Their sedentary way of life , the fact that individual families could become units of production and could not only store considerable surpluses , but pass them on to subsequent generations , now meant that the old egalitarian and cooperative values of the hunter-gatherers were gone for ever . |
| 21 | If you had SUPERFILE you could not only produce MailSorted address labels for all those people , but you could do much subtler selections as well — all in a few minutes and at the press of a few keys . |
| 22 | He could n't even copy English place-names accurately : in 1866 , making notes on the ‘ coloured Minton tiles ’ at the South Kensington Museum , he turns Stoke-upon-Trent into ‘ Stroke-upon-Trend ’ . |
| 23 | On your own you could n't even protect innocent children left in your care from the Fascist thugs . |
| 24 | The old man could n't even put this Christmas . |
| 25 | ‘ Searchin' the place from top to bottom in the ‘ ope that there might ‘ ave been some grub to be found , but I could n't even find any communion wine . ’ |
| 26 | And we opened a small shop there and , in a whole week we could n't even sell fifty pence worth of sweets . |
| 27 | He could n't even hear faint sounds from the next apartment without his imagination putting together some unwholesome scene of matching action . |
| 28 | They had never spoken of the future and what would happen when their time was through but they would , because a love so consuming could n't just end this way . |
| 29 | Erm als other problems which arose from the outline land law was in its deliberate ambiguity er in its deliberate erm tt sort of ambiguity because it left reg it left the law to be interpreted by regional areas which meant that how that erm in some places they totally misinterpreted the law but the Communist Party had to have this flexibility because China was such a vast country and you could n't just impose one policy per se across the country . |
| 30 | I was sure that I 'd be safe from then when I finally emerged from the city on the far side — it was n't likely that rats would abe allowed too close to the Divine Sanctum — but I could n't yet see any sign of a far side . |