Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] could not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last night the atmosphere between them could not have been more different . |
| 2 | Somehow the protestant part of me could not find it right to speak of her place in God 's order of salvation because I was afraid of her obscuring the central place of Jesus Christ in his Church . |
| 3 | Because the clergy were on the whole ministering to the poor , many of them could not avoid being caught up in the unrest , violence and fear . |
| 4 | The suggestion at the time that the Labour Party had been behind Profumo 's downfall was a little unfair to many members who repeatedly expressed their misgivings about the scandalous imputations , which several of them could not regard as a proper currency for a political difference . |
| 5 | But most of them could not understand his lasting despair , for was he not free and in the very home of democracy ? |
| 6 | Some of them could not believe that they had found themselves in a church , and were only stopping off en route to a nearby pub . |
| 7 | About 1768 , while the boys were young , an incident occurred , the lasting consequences of which could not have been foreseen . |
| 8 | By re-amended notice of appeal dated 30 August 1991 the defendants sought an order to set aside or vary the judge 's order or to order a retrial and sought leave to adduce fresh evidence on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the judge had erred in law in failing to take into account ( a ) the lack of a penal notice on the order which it was claimed that the appellants had breached ; and ( b ) the plaintiff 's delay of 18 months in applying for the committal order ; ( 2 ) that the judge 's decision was arrived at without regard to fresh evidence which the defendants had obtained since the hearing , part of which related to matters subsequent to the hearing and the remainder of which could not have been obtained with reasonable diligence ; which , if given , would probably have had an important influence on the result , which was credible and which should , therefore , be admitted ; ( 3 ) that , alternatively , the court should exercise its discretion to admit the fresh evidence as the liberty of the defendants was at risk ; and ( 4 ) that the sentence imposed was excessive . |
| 9 | One part of her could not believe it was happening , and perhaps that was why she did not resist . |
| 10 | Some of us could not walk quite straight , for when ‘ Peter ’ really got going our foundations shook . |
| 11 | It was indeed a sad thing that in these days when the Church had enough enemies outside it should divide itself into hostile forces , because , he added aptly , forgetting the original subject of the quotation , a house divided against itself could not stand . |
| 12 | ‘ The Seat car hit the Chevette , and a Cavalier car that was travelling behind it could not avoid crashing into it . ’ |
| 13 | The man sitting before me could not have forgotten that ; he just chose to ignore it . |
| 14 | but many of those who were ready to benefit from it could not read Latin , which had been the normal basis for scholarly interchange . |
| 15 | The major innovations and discoveries of the 20th century such as transistors , penicillin or nuclear power could not have been predicted before their time nor do their stories have much in common except the the research which led to them could not have been directed towards their discovery . |
| 16 | The maid who opened the door to them could not take her eyes off the great fat woman in the biscuit straw hat with big cloth roses on its brim , and the cape that just covered her shoulders and showed an expanse of blue cotton bosom , the like she had never seen before . |
| 17 | The British Communists and the large group of supporters they had built around them could not sidestep the problem . |
| 18 | The land by itself could not support the population . |