Example sentences of "[noun] could not [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Biggerstaff 's Metro 6R4 suffered a puncture on his first run but even a courageous charge at the second attempt could n't displace Woodside at the top of the list . |
| 2 | Teachers and LEAs could not keep track of this deluge , little of which can now be recalled by practitioners in any detail . |
| 3 | The issue , an ongoing source of tension , had been aggravated by remarks in July by Demiral on the eve of the inauguration of the Ataturk dam on July 25 , to the effect that Iraq and Syria could not lay claim to the water Turkey drew from the Euphrates and Tigris rivers . |
| 4 | Ceauşescu could not wage war against foreign enemies — his neighbours after all were his fraternal allies — so he could only provide means for his ambitious plans by waging economic war against his own people . |
| 5 | Roger From the Practice could n't tell emphysema from the common cold . |
| 6 | You know very well Therese could not play Saffi . |
| 7 | The ‘ four great freedoms ’ were suspended so that public meetings and rallies could not take place . |
| 8 | The Court found that the application of a 5 per cent hurdle throughout Germany ( below which parties could not win representation ) would disadvantage smaller parties . |
| 9 | At a round of talks in Madrid on June 22-23 the US side proposed that any country should have the right to resume mining if the signatory nations could not reach agreement within three years . |
| 10 | Lucy could n't find time to come over for an evening ; the globally significant exhibition was floating on some remote iceberg ; Jeremy had an agent , an opening ; Lucy 's sister was ill and needed her ( Jay recalled Lucy 's exasperated indifference to her sister ) ; the painters were coming . |
| 11 | Even their discontented subjects could not imagine routine vices . |
| 12 | Ken could n't speak French , but insisted on requesting a tune — by humming it out loud , at the top of his voice . |
| 13 | Alan had asked me to arrive in good time with the Registration of Death certificate and , equally important apparently , the cheque , without which the cremation could not take place . |
| 14 | Such a contribution can not be assessed , but assuredly , the research could not take place without it . |
| 15 | Such a contribution can not be assessed , but assuredly , the research could not take place without it . |
| 16 | The Indians could not install table games like baccarat and poker ; but they could introduce any other sort of gambling already allowed outside the reservation , including off-track betting and , if they could afford it , live races round a track . |
| 17 | A spokeswoman for the Ombudsman 's office said the draft report was still in the hands of the DTI and that publication could not take place until it had been returned . |
| 18 | In those circumstances , Community law could not deprive member states of their competence to determine the conditions for the grant of their flags to vessels . |
| 19 | State law could not provide discipline because it met resistance from consciences . |
| 20 | In this state the electron could not radiate energy in the form of electromagnetic waves because there would be no lower energy state for it to go to . |
| 21 | ‘ I mean it , ’ Alina said , her gaze so searching now that Amis could n't break contact or look away . |
| 22 | He was such a charismatic man that Ruth could n't take offence at that . |
| 23 | The child could not decide whever he wanted a chocolate bar or a scoop of ice cream : it occurred to Nelson to combine the two . |
| 24 | doctrine , and a view was subsequently promoted that a child could not do drama until he first learnt to express himself through movement . |
| 25 | Morality could not take precedence in the determination of foreign policy because of structural differences between the setting for individual behaviour and the setting for international behaviour . |
| 26 | ‘ Emily , the marriage could not take place yet , ’ he told her . |
| 27 | The question of prohibited degrees , within which marriage could not take place , also appears in the late seventh century , when bishop Leodegar of Autun is said to have attacked the marriage of Childeric II to his cousin Bilichild . |
| 28 | Nigel could n't stand poetry of any sort — well , perhaps limericks or his own early efforts . |
| 29 | Nature was blooming and burgeoning , but poor Karen could n't get gravid for love or money . |
| 30 | Airport security was largely superficial , and outdated equipment could not detect plastic explosives . |