Example sentences of "could not [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fleury would have liked to have gone , too , but both he and Harry could not go at the same time ; someone had to stay behind to fight off the sepoys . |
| 2 | The Poor Persons Procedure , dependent upon the charity of the legal profession , could not cope with the increasing pressure of work in the 1930s and was supplemented in 1942 by a Services Divorce Department . |
| 3 | Everyday matters seemed too much for him since the murder , they knew he could not cope with the bigger issues . |
| 4 | Unfortunately the smaller coffin-maker could not cope with the high-powered advertising of IPC and Dottridge Brothers , preferring to place miniature versions of their handiwork in the shop window for the benefit of passers-by , though they probably relied on the funeral furnishing warehouses for the supply of linings and coffin furniture . |
| 5 | Those small owner publishers who could not cope with the new financial pressures were forced to expand , to merge with other larger companies , or go bust . |
| 6 | Coal-tar technology could not cope with the huge expansion in the chemical industry that took place after the Second World War . |
| 7 | In July 1990 , P concluded that he could not cope with the mounting arrears under the mortgage , and his other debts . |
| 8 | Jatinder came back to England two years ago as their son could not cope with the Indian climate . |
| 9 | She was , fundamentally , a good person but the side we all saw at work was the side that could not cope with the constant expansion of the business . |
| 10 | There was the commander of the Cigognes , Captain Brocard , wounded during the first days of the fighting at Verdun , and relieved of his command the following year — because he simply could not adapt to the new conditions of air warfare the old form of single combat that had brought the Cigognes such renown in the early days . |
| 11 | It also shows that , when Russian enterprises reacted to the reforms by jacking up prices and withholding output , they were not doing so because they could not adapt to the bewildering change around them ; they were reacting to the incentives they faced , which said that goods were stores of value while money was not . |
| 12 | But those in the field , the front line could not continue without the less than glamorous work that has to be carried out back here in H Q. They also serve , who work in our offices , collect our money , keep our accounts make sure the administration is working well . |
| 13 | By the early years of the twentieth century , however , stations could not compete with the upward thrust of American urban architecture . |
| 14 | They had no subsistence plots to fall back on , some tried reviving traditional handicrafts but these could not compete with the manufactured goods that had been made available by the market system . |
| 15 | He was talking but could not think at the same time . |
| 16 | Although he knew that they could not reach beyond the full extension of their chains , Frankie was never fully convinced that he was safe from them . |
| 17 | He felt he had scarcely fallen asleep , he was dreaming of a black river , with no banks , yet there was something there , a source of light that he wanted to reach , which he could not reach against the cold drive of the current … |
| 18 | Coningham said that he had looked more closely at Scott 's scheme since the last debate , and ‘ could not acquiesce in the high opinion which that gentleman appeared to entertain of himself , judging by the long string of superlatives in his own praise with which he wound up his recent letter to The Times ' . |
| 19 | Indeed , I remember warning her , half in joke , half in earnest , that I could not answer for the new Government lasting more than six weeks . |
| 20 | Anthony Bowden , chairman of the all-party pensioners group , said last night that he could not vote against the whole basis of the Budget . |
| 21 | Anthony Bowden , the chairman of the all-party pensioners group , said last night that he could not vote against the whole basis of the Budget . |
| 22 | Although both these comforters were with her , Victoria could not settle in the strange environment . |
| 23 | John escaped death because he could not settle in the doomed cabin where 15-year-old Catherine and 12-year-old James were sleeping . |
| 24 | It rained upon them at Elgin and Johnson again ran into culinary difficulty with a lunch he could not eat at the Red Lion inn . |
| 25 | Now they say that even when they get a new manager , they could not return to the traditional pattern of advice workers advising and the manager doing the rest . |
| 26 | At first , my mind could not adjust to the missing three months , so that I sat stupidly with the paper in my hands , staring at it . |
| 27 | Before the advent of machinery , English hand workers could not spin to the requisite fineness to rival Asian calicos . |
| 28 | The influential Rafael Rodriguez ( who at first refused government positions , but gave advice on economic matters ) believed that Cuba could not rely on the Western capitalist countries ( accustomed to regarding Cuba as their sugar-bowl ) for the assistance necessary to develop an industrial economy . |
| 29 | Since natural selection produced only slow , almost imperceptible changes , Darwin could not rely on the sudden appearance of a new form that did not interbreed with its parents . |
| 30 | The outside world could not guess at the disturbing cross-currents . |