Example sentences of "it could n't [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Pat Hutchinson of Luton Consumer Services , Turbosoft was very successful at first but as the firm grew it could n't cope with the volume of orders received — Trading Standards have had over 400 complaints to date , and they 're still coming in ! |
| 2 | Whatever she chose , it could n't compete with the couturier clothes worn by the Baronne or Antoinette , she thought with a grimace . |
| 3 | but that was n't with flood water coming over , that was because it was coming up the drains , cos it could n't drain into the river |
| 4 | It could n't happen without the permission of the dealer , but he too is a member of that community and he cares what happens there . |
| 5 | Sun Microsystems Inc has been closed out of a few significant contracts lately because it could n't tick off the Motif and Distributed Computing Environment boxes on the bids : the Common Open Systems Environment will at least get it back in the running for a $20m deal at Boeing Co that requires Motif and Sun insiders reckon that the company will now include Motif in its price list almost immediately — the best guess is that SunSoft will offer reasonably priced Motif upgrades for Solaris 1 . |
| 6 | Sun Microsystems has been closed out of a few significant contracts lately because it could n't tick off the Motif and DCE boxes on the bids . |