Example sentences of "could not [vb infin] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | these would soon be extinct if zoos could not offer protection to animals in the same situation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The second was a farmer-substitute scheme to help those who could not obtain assistance during periods of illness . |
| 5 | Well anyway it gets half way through this wood I could n't see couple of yards in front of me |