Example sentences of "could not [verb] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cynthia could not speak for the sobs that now came from her throat . |
| 2 | We could not go for a walk that afternoon . |
| 3 | His mouth was too dry to speak but he could not reach for the water now . |
| 4 | Taken by surprise , she could not answer for a moment and than said angrily , ‘ If you knew , why did n't you say something before ? ’ |
| 5 | The form used was complicated but could not compensate for the deficiencies of information about a population that was still highly mobile and still undergoing the stresses of war . |
| 6 | These honours could not compensate for the misery of his diocesan life . |
| 7 | He could not lecture for the Archbishop of Canterbury because he was already committed to lecture for the Archbishop of York . |
| 8 | We could not undress for a week in case of a submarine attack , and you all got a little cross , I remember . |
| 9 | In Dekker the employer had tried to argue that the refusal to hire was not on the grounds of pregnancy but on the ground of adverse financial consequences the firm could not pay for a replacement during the period of maternity leave needed by Ms Dekker and as a result the firm would be short-staffed . |
| 10 | it was held that the Food Controller could not charge for the licence . |
| 11 | Hall has a four-shot buffer after her round of 75 while Edmond , who could not play for the Essex ladies in county week due to a wrist injury , is also well-placed after a 77 . |
| 12 | This specific and complex test was required , the experts say , because the Cusiana rock is quite variable , a condition that could not allow for the application of routine technology to asses well productivity . |
| 13 | If such cells develop as they do because they contain only some of the genes — for example , just the genes for being a gut cell — then a nucleus from such a cell could not substitute for an egg nucleus . |
| 14 | He could not plan for the way of the wind , that was luck , but for the rest he had everything at his finger-ends . |
| 15 | ‘ He was really looking forward to being a father and could not wait for the birth . |
| 16 | Since the scale was twenty-three miles to an inch , it was possible that a deviation of two or three miles would not be marked , but that could not account for the tarmac . |
| 17 | Although there is a slight reduction in the number of cells per well over the culture period this could not account for the reduction in EGF binding seen . |
| 18 | Although the timescale of artificial selection experiments means that new mutations can contribute to the responses , in the above experiments accumulation of partially recessive mutations could not account for the decline in early performance , because the drop persisted in crosses between ‘ old ’ lines . |
| 19 | " But we ca n't find four thousand in a week And , with things as they are , we could n't hope for a bank loan even if … " |
| 20 | Dalgliesh felt impatient for the arrival of the forensic biologist , although he knew he could n't hope for the answer , not yet . |
| 21 | Pity we could n't go for a romp round a canal is n't it ? |
| 22 | The pause after the first shot making sure they 'd killed him which is n't easy to do with a heart shot but they could n't go for the head because the sight line would n't fit with shooting at the President 's head — ’ |
| 23 | She could n't pay for an abortion herself because Nigel wo n't let her have a cheque book or a credit card , let alone any cash . |
| 24 | Jenny could n't speak for a moment . |
| 25 | This was something so endearing I could n't speak for a moment . |
| 26 | We could n't claim to be anything else ; we could n't speak for the families of Terry Waite or Brian Keenan . |
| 27 | The they used to the Non-conformists whether or not I could n't speak for the Church of England but er there 'd be a lot go you know i in the evening there 'd be several hundred at every one of these places , and there was , there 'd be , ooh four or five Non=conformist places in in . |
| 28 | Emma closed her eyes but for the moment she could n't answer for the throbbing in her throat . |
| 29 | Twice before she 'd had proposals of marriage and had rejected them because she could n't feel for the men they came from . |
| 30 | She could n't afford to run any risks , and there was certainly something mysterious about David Arrowsmith , something she could n't identify for the moment : so she did n't trust him . |