Example sentences of "could not [verb] with [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British Columbians , despite dogged persistence , could not cope with a pack in which eight men worked as one and where possession once obtained was so powerfully and cunningly retained . |
| 2 | The need for these was identified when the regular programme of summer schools for ABE students began to attract students with severe learning difficulties who could not cope with the curriculum offered but seemed to gain great benefit from the opportunity for residential education . |
| 3 | It is thought that the UK could not cope with the increase in price and non-price competition which the SEM would bring about . |
| 4 | He argued that such a philosophical position could not cope with the phenomena of dreams and especially hypnosis . |
| 5 | One secretary could not cope with the work . |
| 6 | It stated clearly that a flat rate charge could not cope with the scale of local authority expenditure and that it could not do so fairly . |
| 7 | Usually the two pilots who are on night duty sleep in the ambulance but the driver and medical orderly who also sleep in it had worked up a terrific ‘ fug ’ — ‘ Imshi ’ Mason and I felt we could not cope with the smell of unwashed feet , etc. , so we dragged the two stretchers out . ’ |
| 8 | A BANK manager killed himself because he could not cope with the worry and pressure of his work in the recession . |
| 9 | In particular it could not cope with the pressure of a growing population . |
| 10 | If anyone believes for a moment that we should forget about the cause of asylum seekers , I ask them to read some of the evidence of people who fled from Chile , El Salvador , Burma and so many other places where they could not cope with the oppression against them . |
| 11 | They again became the ‘ weaker sex ’ , who were delicate and fragile and could not cope with the strains of learning and would continue to be mere property to be traded at will . |
| 12 | At school , more than half ( 54pc ) said they had been bullied and 45pc thought their teachers could not cope with the bullies . |
| 13 | Third , the mother could not cope with the children especially , as the justices say , with another child on the way . |
| 14 | Recording a verdict that Mrs Bowyer ‘ Took her own life ’ , Dr Weir said : ‘ This is terribly tragic because she did it because she could not cope with the pain of the illness she suffered from . ’ |
| 15 | He was aware of strange thoughts and sensations swimming through his mind , but he could not cope with the pain . |
| 16 | If even Alison Kraemer 's perfect manners could not cope with the news , then our marriage must be an intolerable scandal . |
| 17 | The shareholders had clearly manifested an intention to sell their shares and could not continue with the sale without giving the other shareholders a right to exercise their option under the articles . |
| 18 | Industrialists heading soon-to-be privatized enterprises , while supporting calls to relax monetary policy , could not concur with the calls for strikes and for a new government , which parliamentarians and trades union leaders were perceived to be making for their own political motives . |
| 19 | They were gathered in the High Street and around the market place , but could not compete with the standard of living of those at the upper end of the social scale in the county towns and old corporate boroughs . |
| 20 | I exhibited at the exhibition for several years but abandoned this when it became clear that I could not compete with the accuracy of the machine-made product . |
| 21 | That the surface of a rotating earth would experience a great wind rested on the assumption that the air could not rotate with the earth . |
| 22 | They simply could not live with the pace and power of the English game , well as forwards such as Francis and Robinson played . |
| 23 | But as I looked into her lovely face , I knew I could not live with the lie . |
| 24 | One had to forget — because one could not live with the thought — that this graceful , fragile , tender young woman with those eyes , that smile ( those gardens and snows in the background ) had been brought in a cattle car to an extermination camp and killed by an injection of phenol into the heart , into the gentle heart that one had heard beating under one 's lips in the dusk of the past . |
| 25 | The taxpayer 's claim that he could not comply with a s 8 , TMA 1970 notice requiring him to submit tax returns as he was not in possession of the full facts to enable him to complete the returns properly was rejected in the High Court in Alexander v Wallington General Commissioners and IRC [ 1992 ] STI 264 . |
| 26 | Lord Justice Lloyd and Mr Justice Waterhouse said they could not interfere with the exercise of discretion by Judge Owen in Manchester Crown Court last November . |
| 27 | The Environment Committee and its staff would ensure that the promoters could not interfere with the consultants ' conclusions and that the consultants , during the preparation of the report , had consulted local authorities and environmental agencies such as HMIP or the NRA , or other agencies . |
| 28 | The Environment Department said yesterday that Mr Patten could not agree with the inquiry inspector 's judgement that the needs of the historic house justified the introduction of unacceptable shopping developments in the countryside . |
| 29 | Even an admiral 's good wishes could not dispense with the ability to pass a professional examination . |
| 30 | If the judge had thought that he could not deal with the matter himself it was also of course open to him to report the barrister to the General Council of the Bar . |