Example sentences of "could not [vb infin] the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could not identify the Fairy Topic , either , and this gave him a not uncommon sensation of his own huge ignorance , a grey mist , in which floated or could be discerned odd glimpses of solid objects , odd bits of glitter of domes or shadows of roofs in the gloom . |
| 2 | Rain could not leave the Maurin strand to Cobalt . |
| 3 | Having been reduced now to travelling on foot , he could not make the return journey to Bristol in a day , and Sara too often found herself left lonely and uneasy in a cottage whose attractions were not increased by the coming of winter , or by neighbours who were ‘ a little too tattling and inquisitive ’ . |
| 4 | The court said that it could not tell the Chief Constable how he should respond to the situation as it could not judge the explosiveness of the situation at the time . |
| 5 | Since only one bit at a time can be sent , we could not send the 8-bit binary number : all at once until we had eight separate telephone lines and this would be obviously impractical . |
| 6 | The project failed because the Alliance could not disguise the class basis of its appeal in the eyes of working-class electorate , numerically stronger , with powerful industrial base , and tradition of independent , at times aggressive , action . |
| 7 | These three teachers were struggling to survive in an inner-city school and could not give the evaluation project the kind of commitment it really deserved . |
| 8 | Jonathan Davies could not manage the touchline kick , but was successful from a similar position five minutes before the interval , when inspired play by Derek Pyke and Philip McKenzie presented Martin Offiah with a try with virtually his first touch of the ball . |
| 9 | Western diplomats in Belgrade described the fraud as a " fatal assault " on Yugoslavia 's standing with Western creditors , since it demonstrated that the federal government could not control the money supply . |
| 10 | The BMA could not countenance the challenge eugenics posed to its specific brand of social and physiological individualism , with its stress on the importance of individual initiative and on the value of each and every human life . |
| 11 | AS a victim of the eating disorder bulimia , Joanna Grenside could not face the Christmas season of family meals and parties . |
| 12 | In Nichol v Godts ( 1854 ) 10 Exch 191 , a sale of " foreign refined rape oil , warranted only equal to samples " was held to be a sale by description so that a seller could not deliver something which , although equal to sample , could not match the contract description . |
| 13 | The dinucleotide GpU could not stabilize the RNA polymerase-promoter complex formed at P A2b , but produced a partial protection from heparin challenge in the case of P A3 . |
| 14 | The party 's problem was that it was a Catholic organisation and could not see the class basis of the problems . |
| 15 | Other clones containing various regions of RAP30 sequence could not stimulate the CAT activity . |
| 16 | In the end the proprietors of the Straw Paper Manufactory could not keep the enterprise solvent . |
| 17 | His Lordship could not say the Home Secretary 's decision was not one which was fully open to him in the exercise of his judgment . |
| 18 | As some old timers could not accept the hair rig when it first came out , maybe we all have our own point at which progress ( ? ) becomes unacceptable and remote boats maybe my watershed . |
| 19 | McKenna , the new Home Secretary , again pledged his personal support but insisted that he could not guarantee the bill government time . |
| 20 | As such , he could not recommend the draft agreement that had emerged from the conversations . |
| 21 | This time , the crew were in such high spirits that they dropped Nickles over the heart of Berlin , spirits that were somewhat subdued when it was realised that they could not close the bomb bay doors after combing . |
| 22 | It can be seen immediately that , in library terms , the 48K microcomputer could not replace the library catalogue . |
| 23 | She could not find the light switch and stood , her hand on the newel post , deciding whether to go up in the dark . |
| 24 | Scunthorpe were on the rack but the home side could not find the killer touch , Micky Thomas just failing to reach a Flynn chip and Bennett having a header blocked by the commanding Elliott . |
| 25 | With Thornton 's final refusal the comrades could not fudge the Chair issue any longer . |
| 26 | She was surprised when she was told she could n't feed the pig swill . |
| 27 | She was surprised when she was told she could n't feed the pig swill . |
| 28 | just could n't handle the transfer rate from that . |
| 29 | A red biplane from Crowfield had taken off and gone into a loop when he came out of the loop he could n't pull the plane level and he crashed into a field . |
| 30 | You could n't edit the preview display , of course , and the typefaces were generic rather than accurate representations but things were , it seemed , moving in the right direction . |