Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Do the people of North Dakota disagree whether justice requires compensation for product defects that manufacturers could not reasonably have prevented ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The new President , the Premier , the two Deputy Premiers and the Defence Minister all held seats in the People 's Great Hural which they were required to give up , as it was stipulated that Cabinet post-holders could not concurrently serve as deputies to the assembly . |
| 9 | A generation ago in the South , blacks could not even go to white lavatories or be buried in white cemeteries — let alone compete for good jobs or live in white suburbs . |
| 10 | A spokesman for the new organization declared that traditional whale-hunting countries could no longer stand by and watch as the system for international management of whale stocks crumbled under the pressure of environmental extremists . |
| 11 | A spokesman declared that traditional whale-hunting countries could no longer stand by and watch as international management of whale stocks crumbled under the pressure of environmental extremists . |
| 12 | Then the decline of Latin meant that men of science in different countries could no longer understand each other . |
| 13 | ( Such silver tones could never properly shout . ) |
| 14 | After this the irregulars could no longer claim the benefits of an ambiguous position ; either they were adventurous sailors who were willing to settle down and live peaceful lives once the Spaniards stopped harassing them ( and Morgan showed the way by becoming Deputy Governor of Jamaica ) , or else they were straightforward pirates who were ready to plunder the ships of any nation including their own . |
| 15 | In the 1983 general election , nearly 8 million people voted for a political ticket ( Liberal/Social Democratic Party Alliance ) for which their parents could not previously have voted . |
| 16 | It was an existence conducted as if in poverty , but my adoptive parents could not actually have been poor ; still , it was ruled by insistences on not wasting , on eating everything up , on being grateful , on saving light and water . |
| 17 | Those four years left a black cloud over everything with the ever-recurring casualties among our friends and relatives and the suffocating misery I remember when our parents could no longer hide their anxiety at the big German push in the spring of 1918 when it seemed their advance towards Paris would never stop . |
| 18 | The judgement led one observer to point out ruefully that there now existed a situation where two tribunals faced with similar circumstances could quite reasonably come to different conclusions , and that their rulings could not be overturned on appeal in the Interests of consistency ( IRS , 1985a ) . |
| 19 | The lines could very soon become entangled and this is a clear indication that line ferrets must only be used singly . |
| 20 | Furthermore , health authorities could no longer discharge patients without an individual care plan being approved and agreed with the local authority . |
| 21 | 160 to the end of the second century , and it meant that these defences could not possibly have been erected before AD 160 . |
| 22 | W. 's wishes could therefore never have been out of his mind . |
| 23 | But the paper admitted experts could not positively identify the voices . |
| 24 | It was argued that having accepted these rights , member States could not subsequently claim to be third parties with respect to any obligations of such a treaty . |
| 25 | Essentially , states could no longer ensure economic growth unless they integrated with other similar economies . |
| 26 | Well the solicitors could n't very have written to the , to the bank could they ? |
| 27 | Definitions and meanings could not only extend the matching of terms but , more importantly , these could provide a contextual approach as well . |
| 28 | With these proposals the Russians could not possibly agree , since a liberal-democratic Germany would almost certainly join NATO . |
| 29 | New Zealand farmers lost all subsidies in the mid-1980s — because a government facing tough economic times could no longer afford them . |
| 30 | The function of the state was to plan the social environment so that individuals could more fully realize themselves . |