Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Microsoft 's own managers could not identify pirated copies of the company 's prized Windows and MS-DOS programmes that appeared in Taiwan last year . |
| 2 | But I could not row more grain without causing an even worse grazing crisis from April to July when three acres are laid up for hay . |
| 3 | It is true that Paul could not preach that freedom without fairly being asked how the theology works out in practice , especially where the inequalities of society , at least on the surface of things , remain unchanged . |
| 4 | I could not stand another hour of the man himself or his bleating sheep of a wife , ’ she said tartly . |
| 5 | C might ignore the agreement , take coercive action and promote a conflict between itself and A and B. C can not be compelled to accept the terms of the treaty between A and B ; if C acts contrary to the treaty , A and B can not make that the basis of a claim against C. Equally , if the treaty between A and B was in C's interest , C could not enforce that interest through legal proceedings unless it was in fact more than an interest , and amounted to a legally protected right . |
| 6 | He was less severe with me than he would have been normally , but I saw I could not expect great leniency from him . |
| 7 | Speaking to a motion carried by the conference calling for a housing policy review and for ‘ massive public investment ’ in quality homes for rent , he said he was glad Labour was now addressing the problem , for you could not build decent homes without creating a safe environment to live in . |
| 8 | In practice , children under the age of eight are rarely called as witnesses and judges still follow a 1958 House of Lords ruling that a jury could not attach any importance to the evidence of a child of five . |
| 9 | At the outset parties were reminded that they could not hold political meetings in places of worship and had to obtain police permission to hold any meetings at all . |
| 10 | After a review of the state of research , the government decided , in 1988 , that it could not justify continued expenditure of £100 million a year on a project with such an elusive prospect of commercial return . |
| 11 | She could not bear dead bodies of any breed . |
| 12 | I could not bear any imputation of disloyalty to my second husband . |
| 13 | She could not bear any form of contact with a man under any circumstances . |
| 14 | While her grandmother , Ruth , Lady Fermoy , forgave her when the exuberant redhead rode her horse into Park House when she was visiting , Miss Rudge could not excuse other instances of her colourful behaviour . |
| 15 | They could not make more money from selling books . |
| 16 | And even now , after Dr Neil 's healing influence , daily exerted , for although he could not make direct love to her he was able to let her know in a thousand different ways how much he loved her , and how precious she was to him , she still felt the odd shudder of shame and fear . |
| 17 | The troubles of the spirit are not always translated into the grosser medium of the flesh , but if I could not make this transfer with Miller then there would be no point in making him ill in the first place . |
| 18 | Even if we wanted to , we could not make secondary school like primary school . |
| 19 | The head of the Bonn Chancellery , Rudolf Seiters , said the West German government had made it clear that it could not make any concessions regarding its embassies in other countries and that no East German would be turned away from any West German mission abroad . |
| 20 | The person who decided this was almost always the vicar ; though of recent years he could not make elaborate changes without the support of a majority in his church council . |
| 21 | Smith and Burkland state that " the patient spontaneously articulated words and short phrases fairly well immediately after the operation " but he could not repeat single words until the tenth post-operative week . |
| 22 | James Watt realised that steam engines as they then existed could not create enough power to be truly economical . |
| 23 | So , even if we had a precise account of adult human knowledge of inside , support , and behind , we could not equate any part of this with a cat 's or a chimp 's knowledge simply by jettisoning those parts of it influenced by our linguistic representations . |
| 24 | All else apart , I could not forget that movement of his hand to his pocket when ‘ Parsons ’ knocked at the door . |
| 25 | Moreover , since his political authority was based partly on the myth of his personal infallibility , he could not eat humble pie before the Allies without causing people to question both . |
| 26 | Long acquaintance with the clergy had convinced him that priests could not tell one layman from the next if they happened to be on their own administrative staff . |
| 27 | France would launch two Helios spy satellites in 1994 and 1995 to supplement the Spot satellite already in orbit , which could not send detailed photographs of the ground . |
| 28 | For the Washington government could not avoid considerable contact with the European powers after 1920 . |
| 29 | The author has encountered a covenant on a site bounding the River Test in Hampshire , where from the back of the house to the boundary no construction of any sort was permitted above ground level and trees and vegetation could not exceed 6 feet in height . |
| 30 | With a string of southern primaries due in March , Clinton remained the overall favourite for the nomination ; the conventional wisdom was that Tsongas could not generate sufficient appeal outside New England , and — given the 1988 fate of Michael Dukakis , a Massachusetts liberal ( also of Greek ethnic origin ) with whom he was frequently compared — would be unelectable as President even if he did secure the nomination . |