Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] a new [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now in terms of whether it should be five thousand plus , that of course is a matter of whether there is demand , now my my conclusion , from my fairly extensive knowledge of Greater York , is that you just could not fit a new settlement that size satisfactorily into the settlement and landscape pattern of Greater York , or its immediate surrounds , I just can not identify a location where that could be where where the roads , the public transport , the landscape , or indeed the agricultural land quality , from now onto five an area , suitably large for that type of what would be a a new town . |
| 2 | Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd said that Britain could not risk a new rise in racial tension through immigration . |
| 3 | They could not produce a new conversation in the milliseconds that they were accustomed to . |
| 4 | We could n't make a new book collection there : that would be absurd . |
| 5 | In the 1950s he felt we could n't afford a new car , so be bought a prewar London taxi , and he and I built a Nissen hut as a garage . |