Example sentences of "[noun sg] could not [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And the nuclear industry could n't always buy itself into the media . |
| 6 | Piggy is short-sighted ; and the spectacles he would have been prescribed for this condition could not possibly have been used as burning glasses . |
| 7 | Despite these links , however , reformers in the African Institution could not always get what they wanted . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ It is a huge building and clearly Her Majesty could not possibly visit every part of it . |
| 10 | Such infill could not only explain the mascon but could also explain why no Imbrium impact features are visible within Mare Imbrium and why the surface is fairly smooth . |
| 11 | However , all policemen belonged to lineages , and consequently the police force could not really handle those events ( such as the Ajdabiya elections ) which resulted in massive mobilization of populations : not because the numbers were too great , but because the police force did not contain enough men uninvolved on either side . |
| 12 | They should be ashamed that their concentration could n't even last an hour . |
| 13 | Faye began to struggle to sit up , but Belinda forestalled her , relieved that the other woman had n't commented on the tired bags beneath her eyes that even make-up could n't fully conceal . |
| 14 | Gerry : Politically speaking , though , there was n't the same organized pressure over the heterosexism issue , and management could n't initially see any reasons for our existence . |
| 15 | Plan B was no plan , and with no plan could not really fail . |
| 16 | The Institute could not possibly prejudge matters by proclaiming the auditors ' innocence from the outset . |
| 17 | And if a developer could not immediately secure rent from premises it builds at the dock , the Private Finance Initiative would provide it in the short-term , until the property market improves . |
| 18 | ‘ One of them , ’ he recalled , ‘ had a son so paralysed that the boy could n't even laugh . |
| 19 | Relative to the scientific knowledge of the time , these arguments were sound ones and Copernicus could not satisfactorily defend his theory against them . |
| 20 | The story could n't possibly have been passed on by anyone else . |
| 21 | The rhetoric of equal opportunity could not finally win over the entrenched interests in a broad-meshed filter , a crude sieve for the child population . |
| 22 | All that the Arse were doing were playing simple balls over the top of Fairclough & Newsome , for Wright & Campbell to run onto , and the defence could n't really cope . |
| 23 | You must understand that , upon discovery of such an unsavoury correspondence , your master and mistress could not possibly take the risk of leaving their young children in your hands . |
| 24 | This type of committee was modelled on the Select Committee on Nationalized Industries which had been set up in 1955 because it was felt that Parliament could not adequately control the range of corporations it had created . |
| 25 | My contemporary interest in the case is in the argument that Parliament could not sensibly have intended to frame its enactment in these terms simply for the purpose of dealing with the rare and improbable case of a crooked solicitor and , therefore , the provision must have been intended to have some wider operation . |
| 26 | Prussia of course could n't really act by herself . |
| 27 | This dynamic could not indeed have developed as it did without the very considerable influence behind the scenes , particularly in the preparation of documents between sessions , of leading consultants whose theology was indeed far beyond that of any but a handful of bishops : Congar , Rahner , Philips , Chenu , Courtney Murray among others . |
| 28 | The problem which the Chancellor faced was that failure to tackle the fiscal deficit could not only leave him having to borrow nearly £1 billion a week in the coming year . |
| 29 | The problem which the Chancellor faced was that failure to tackle the fiscal deficit could not only leave him having to borrow nearly £1 billion a week in the coming year . |
| 30 | So that painstaking genius could n't even keep the eyes of his most famous character a consistent colour ? |