Example sentences of "[noun] could [adv] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His voice teased , but there was an undertone of urgent desire which the light words could n't quite conceal , and Kate smiled as she allowed her hands to explore his nakedness . |
| 2 | And it sort of weighed me down and slowed me down till my legs could n't hardly move . |
| 3 | Their tired legs could n't quite carry them , though , to their first win on Tyneside since the opening day of the 1949–50 season . |
| 4 | She cared no more for Mrs Monro than did anyone else , but the mother of my groom should , by rights , be beyond criticism , a positive bonus to my marriage , and even my mother , inclined as she was , to the bright side could n't overtly claim this . |
| 5 | Marx , however , realized that the need to make a living could never directly explain what human beings do , nor could it account for the complexity of human history itself . |
| 6 | Since those vessels could no longer engage in fishing as from 1 April 1989 , the companies in question sought by means of an application for judicial review , brought on 16 December 1988 in the High Court of Justice , Queen 's Bench Division , to challenge the compatibility of Part II of the Act of 1988 with Community law , in particular with articles 7 , 52 , 58 and 221 of the E.E.C . |
| 7 | In the real world he had to be ditched before Labour could ever seriously hope to form an effective government . |
| 8 | Sometimes the public distancing of Romania from its Warsaw Pact allies , especially Big Brother in Moscow , was done in a quite insulting fashion : Ceauşescu could even implicitly put the Kremlin in the same category as the White House : ‘ The small and medium-sized states refuse to play the role of pawn in the service of the interests of big imperialist powers any longer . ’ |
| 9 | The Irish enforced a ‘ Ban ’ on British sports in the sense that those who wished to play Gaelic football or hurling under the aegis of the Gaelic Athletic Association could not also play football or cricket . |
| 10 | It also seems clear from the case that a car could no longer answer the description ‘ new ’ once the mileage it had travelled under its own power significantly exceeded the distance from the point of manufacture to the dealer . |
| 11 | The same reasoning could equally well apply to weasels and badgers , who live in burrows , but the Hopi follow a quite different line of thought ; they hold that the meat of these animals is favourable to child-rearing because of their habit of working their way through the ground and ‘ getting out ’ at some other place when they are chased into a hole . |
| 12 | So you may start off by saying well two hundred pounds fits this case according to it 's seriousness , but you find that the defendant could n't possibly afford to pay that and realistically , say , only a fifty pound fine can be imposed . |
| 13 | Only much later , in court , did it transpire that the witness could not possibly have seen the suspect 's face at the distance 75 metres in conditions of semi-darkness . |
| 14 | The United States could not properly insist on " a blank check " . |
| 15 | They were clumsy , hesitant lies , yet Simon had believed them : it did not occur to him that someone as stupid as Marie could ever successfully deceive him . |
| 16 | And the nuclear industry could n't always buy itself into the media . |
| 17 | Therese could n't possibly manage it . ’ |
| 18 | Piggy is short-sighted ; and the spectacles he would have been prescribed for this condition could not possibly have been used as burning glasses . |
| 19 | All these characteristics could only ever induce conflict between a family and potential division and so one must remember while reading the play that Mary is not the only one who suffers nor the only cause of anxiety . |
| 20 | Because the employee could only therefore point to the licensing fee as a tangible form of benefit , he also argued that the employer 's use of the valve in the steel production process at its South Teesside plant generated other economic benefits . |
| 21 | Despite these links , however , reformers in the African Institution could not always get what they wanted . |
| 22 | Do the people of North Dakota disagree whether justice requires compensation for product defects that manufacturers could not reasonably have prevented ? |
| 23 | With that , careless of his obvious amazement that someone of her slender weight could not only pack such a punch but dare to do so , she spun rapidly round and raced back the way she had come . |
| 24 | The PLO could no longer remain out of the war . |
| 25 | Soon , however , a new controversy arose when it seemed to some zoologists and paleontologists that even the large dinosaurs could very well have had a high running speed , at least as high as an equivalent sized modern mammal . |
| 26 | Whilst Necromunda could not conceivably have changed , it would nevertheless seem as alien as any of the worlds that they might visit in the interim . |
| 27 | In the closely knit ranks of the Sussex gentry such a royal action could only further enhance growing doubts of Stuart intentions . |
| 28 | And that meant that Downes could not possibly have killed Kemp before that time , and Downes was going to make absolutely certain — as he did — that he was never out of sight or out of touch with his group — except for the odd , brief visit to the loo — at any time that afternoon or early evening . |
| 29 | And suddenly Morse knew where the body had been launched into the river and into eternity ; knew , too , that if Lucy Downes could so quickly arouse the rather sluggish libido of a Lewis , then it was hardly difficult to guess her effect upon the lively carnality of a Kemp . |
| 30 | Songs about relationships , growing older and social issues sat alongside primitive rock'n'roll revelry and country idioms , telling you something about Springsteen 's range as well as about the breadth of concerns which rock could now legitimately address . |