Example sentences of "could not [verb] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Carnwath feared that the Act was so confused that we could not go to court with a realistic chance of winning . |
| 2 | He did not know how to tell her that he was very , very sorry for being small , and for snivelling , and for ruining her life so that she could not go to America to be a film-star . |
| 3 | The only regret was that her parents could not come to England for her commissioning , though a report in the Australian War Cry announced that she had come " Dux " of the session and had trained the women cadets for the timbrel play at the commissioning . |
| 4 | Or maybe utterly sane , perhaps it was he who could not come to grips with the topsy-turvy world they all now lived in , Edward thought . |
| 5 | But he could not come to terms with the climate . |
| 6 | Since SCOTVEC personnel could not respond to requests from all centres to run staff development events for them , each workshop was developed as a pack of information , examples and activities for participants together with extensive support material so that centres or Regions can themselves organise and run the events . |
| 7 | The Government could not point to evidence of particular abuse of power by trade unions . |