Example sentences of "could not [vb infin] [pron] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In between the publication of the White Paper and the passing of the new Act , the government decided that in view of the work required on the hospital services , it could not expect its community care proposals to be ready by the proposed launch date of April 1991 , so in early 1990 it announced a two-year delay in implementation until 1993 . |
| 2 | Christie will face a strong line-up , including Michael Rosswess , the Birchfield Harrier who won both his international 60 metres races in Glasgow last winter but could not clinch his Auckland trip . |
| 3 | An estimated 2 million households in 1987 could not meet their repayment commitments . |
| 4 | In a rather different example from the same period , Scottish TV was so short of cash by February 1970 that it could not pay its ITA rental , nor the levy , nor its bills , nor get further credit from the bank . |
| 5 | Since 1989 nearly a million summonses have been issued to people who could not pay their water bills . |
| 6 | Kathmandu : THE PRINCESS of Wales strained her ankle yesterday on a pebbly path in Nepal 's Himalayan foothills — but went on to tease puffing press photographers who still could not match her pace.The Princess walked briskly through the rough , rocky terrain on a walkabout during the second day of her solo visit to Nepal.After straining her ankle on a pebbled road in Dharan in eastern Nepal she began to limp slightly , but her pace still left Overseas Development Minister Baroness Chalker and several photographers gasping for breath.The Princess could not resist the temptation to chide them . |
| 7 | I could not see my mother sine she had got herself well hidden behind my father so I rushed to the house , through the open french windows , saw my wife sideways on to me gazing at a blank wall and screamed , " See what 's happening — our baby to be plastered over half of some alien landscape ! |
| 8 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , notwithstanding the general principle that a trading or non-trading corporation was entitled to sue in libel to protect so much of its corporate reputation , as distinct from that of its members , as was capable of being damaged by a defamatory statement , a local authority , as a corporate public authority , was not entitled at common law to sue for libel to protect its governing reputation ; that to allow it to do so would impose a substantial and unjustifiable restriction on freedom of expression , since an action for malicious falsehood , or a prosecution for criminal libel , provided the local authority with the sufficient and necessary protection it required in a democratic society ; and that , therefore , the local authority could not maintain its libel action for any words which reflected on it as the county council for Derbyshire in relation to its governmental and administrative functions in that county ( post , pp. 41H , 48F–G , H — 49B , 56B–C , 58A–B , 59F–G , 65B–C , F ) . |
| 9 | As Australia 's forward coach , Evans did great work when he helped Alan Jones but the season before last he could not complete his coaching contract with the Gordon Club in Sydney because of his illness . |
| 10 | Was this Sir Ronald 's own change , or is he the victim of some editor who could not resist what H G Wells called the greatest passion ? |
| 11 | If that were not enough , there has been a 72 per cent increase in the number of people thrown out of their homes because they could not afford their mortgage repayments . |
| 12 | He said Munn got involved in the plan after meeting two men in a pub in Belfast and ‘ bemoaning ’ he could not afford his car insurance after a court appearance for non-payment . |
| 13 | When Mr John Guy , an orthopaedic surgeon at the Worcester Royal Infirmary , wrote to people on his waiting list to say that health authority cuts meant that they could not have their hip replacement operations , a patient passed a copy of his letter to Nicholas Ridley . |
| 14 | Another unemployed woman with an epileptic six-year-old could n't pay her £33 telephone bill . |
| 15 | As I did n't know where Frank was and I could n't give them Alec Reynolds 's address , the Plod soon lost interest in me . |
| 16 | He could n't ignore his gut instinct , which had never failed him yet . |
| 17 | I did n't want to work in a place where I could n't wear my fur coat . |
| 18 | But doctors say a smaller chair could n't take her body weight . |
| 19 | From where I was out in the audience I could n't see what Clarence White was doing — so I assumed he was playing bottleneck |
| 20 | On returning to the bell stand to catch the transport to the course in question , I could n't find my golf clubs . |
| 21 | I kicked the car door shut , put down a bag , locked the car , picked the bag up , ran up the path , stopped at the door , dropped the bread , could n't find my house keys , put down my bags , remembered the keys were in my mouth , opened the door , ran in , and the phone stopped . |
| 22 | cos I have n't got , got to contact him tomorrow , cos I could n't find his telephone number |
| 23 | Could n't afford it , and we could n't sell our house Sue . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , it all happened so fast that they cancelled the sold-out dates because they simply could n't get their work permits in time . |
| 25 | I 'm off for cos I have got no work experience cos and she could n't get me work experience in June and now everybody else is in work experience I get the week off . |
| 26 | Wryly he added , ‘ I could n't allow my ewe lamb be torn to pieces by those talons … ’ |
| 27 | It was dreadful while you could n't remember what time tea break was , or what time breakfast was , or what time you were meant to line up for this , that or the other , or what time doses [ handing out medication ] was . |
| 28 | Despite encouragement , he still could n't call his stepfather dad . |
| 29 | What Dagmar said then sounded like ‘ a dream ’ ; she could n't hear what answer Rose made to that , but she heard the words ‘ missing ’ and ‘ blood ’ . |
| 30 | Except of course , I er , I , I could n't read my road map there in , in Brussels . |