Example sentences of "could not [vb infin] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who could not leave work in time could catch the 19:46 and we would all travel back together . |
| 2 | Once she was there it would require a tremendous effort of will to get her back to London — except that she could not leave Holly in charge for more than a day ; and except that she was avid for information about the murder inquiry ; and except that there were any number of good stories she wanted to pursue for the column and any amount of private gossip she wanted to hear . |
| 3 | They could not go side by side . |
| 4 | He was troubled , I could see , because , being unable to share these memories , he could not disentangle truth from fiction or creative embellishment from accurate detail . |
| 5 | these would soon be extinct if zoos could not offer protection to animals in the same situation . |
| 6 | John , whose Gospel scheme does not include , except by implication , the story of what the church , equipped with the Holy Spirit , achieved , and therefore could not make room for Pentecost ( as Luke does at the outset of his second volume ) , nevertheless makes the same point with considerable clarity In the first chapter of his Gospel he stresses that the Spirit rests exclusively upon Jesus , the fulfilment of the messianic hopes of the Old Testament for the bearer of the Spirit . |
| 7 | Policy discontinuity frustrated industrialists and investors who wished to engage in forward planning : they could not anticipate stability in government programs . |
| 8 | In all of this it has been assumed that the general rule applies and that X , not being the owner could not confer ownership on Y who in turn could not confer ownership on Z. It now remains to examine those exceptional situations where the original owner may lose his ownership , i.e. where title may be conferred by someone who himself has no title . |
| 9 | In all of this it has been assumed that the general rule applies and that X , not being the owner could not confer ownership on Y who in turn could not confer ownership on Z. It now remains to examine those exceptional situations where the original owner may lose his ownership , i.e. where title may be conferred by someone who himself has no title . |
| 10 | Again in Johnston v Chamberlain ( 1933 ) 17 TC 706 , the taxpayer sought to argue that a payment from a discretionary trust could not give rise to income tax liability on the beneficiary as it was " only when the trustees choose to exercise their discretion by making the payment that the sum gets to the children at all " . |
| 11 | This continued to amaze Ludens who could not imagine existence without reading . |
| 12 | Thus the silk industry of Valencia , frequently noted by travellers as one of the most promising features of the economy , apart from a period of prosperity between 1835 and 1852 , remained relatively stagnant throughout the nineteenth century ; in the late eighteenth century a technically advanced industry , in the nineteenth it could not keep pace with Lyons . |
| 13 | His argument was that the Church of Ireland was ‘ poisoned by ecumenism ’ and as such he , as a Free Presbyterian , could not take part in fund-raising on its behalf . |
| 14 | The British felt very confident of their position at sea ; to reinforce the strength of their blockage they laid down unilaterally the rule of 1756 that neutrals could not take advantage of wartime conditions to enter upon trade that would not have been allowed in peacetime . |
| 15 | In contrast to the Hong Kong Basic Law , the Macao draft law imposed no restrictions on foreign passport holders taking key posts in Macao after 1999 except for the chief executive who could not gain right of abode in a foreign country during his term of office . |
| 16 | surveyor could not gain access to roof voids but concluded was in reasonable condition for its age . |
| 17 | The members of the commission could not gain entry to north Korea and could not observe the nature of elections there . |
| 18 | Rafe Straker , like many of the original white settlers of the Bahamas , had been an American loyalist who could not stomach life under George Washington . |
| 19 | Aries was denied again by keeper Simmons when a goal seemed certain , but it appeared that Abingdon could not turn possession into goals as chance after chance went begging . |
| 20 | On Jan. 23 Sikh militants ambushed Joshi 's cavalcade near the town of Jullunder in Punjab , killing five people , after the BJP rejected a last-minute appeal by the government to call off the march on the grounds that it could not guarantee protection against attacks by Sikh and Kashmiri militants . |
| 21 | The second was a farmer-substitute scheme to help those who could not obtain assistance during periods of illness . |
| 22 | Hence if a registered shareholder , A , first executes a transfer to a purchaser , B , and later to another , C , while both remain unregistered B will have priority over C. If , however , C succeeds in obtaining registration before B , he will have priority over B so long as he had no notice , at the time of purchase , of the transfer to B. If C did have notice , although he has been registered his prima facie title will not prevail over that of B who will be entitled to have the register rectified ( assuming that there are no grounds on which the company could refuse to register B ) and in the meantime C 's legal interest will be subject to the equitable interest of B. If both transfers were gifts , the position would presumably be different ; the gift to B would leave A without any beneficial interest that he could give to C and , not being a ‘ purchaser , ’ C could not obtain priority by registration ; his legal interest , on his becoming the registered holder , would be subject to the prior equity of B. |
| 23 | Thus the car did not belong to the customer who therefore could not transfer ownership to X. |
| 24 | Although many boatmen 's wives acted as crew they were not recognised as such and could not get compensation for injury or sick pay . |
| 25 | It could not require installation of control devices on vehicles sold in the county until a satisfactory device was available — and no such device was available . |
| 26 | Having got this joke out of the way , she was then told no she could not have money for food , but she could have cash for a carpet . |
| 27 | ACCORDING to Max Weber 's ‘ model ’ ‘ charismatic leadership ’ could not survive lack of success . |
| 28 | But you could n't drape prettiness over Timothy Gedge . |
| 29 | Oh I could n't eat chocolate in bed . |
| 30 | But she could n't stop thinking of David in his white coat , visiting the patients , touching them , and this was where her thoughts made her tingle all over , and she had to set her mind to something else . |