Example sentences of "[adv] could [not/n't] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dominance of the Macintosh obviously could n't last for ever , the numerical superiority of the PC was bound to win in the end , and it was a program called Ventura Publisher that finally did it . |
| 2 | Some IMC trooper obviously could n't wait for lunch . |
| 3 | The knock on the head alone could not account for the glazed look in her eyes . |
| 4 | But she was in such a hurry that she just could n't stay for long enough to help me with breastfeeding Stephen . |
| 5 | I mean if he was hung , drawn and quartered he still could n't pay for it the suffering he 's gon na cause . |
| 6 | Well we generally aim to have I suppose most of our lectures at an A level standard , but we have a significant number for those doing O level , indeed some lectures which can be tailored for either , so anybody very mucg below O level we probably could n't cater for — I think probably because we would n't feel competent , rather than because we do n't want to do it . |
| 7 | Although the syntactic filter could no doubt be improved , it probably could not compensate for a 20,000 word lexicon and/or poorer acoustic-phonetic discrimination . |
| 8 | You really could n't ask for much more at this price . |
| 9 | You really could n't ask for much more at this price . |
| 10 | Mr Brown said he really could n't wish for a more destructive class . |
| 11 | Whatever the truth of this , the DCSL reports that the IS project topics imposed unprecedented demands upon the local branch of the county library , which simply could not cater for their requirements . |
| 12 | Finally , we should recognize that ours is not the only computer-using community which has felt constrained by industry standard database packages and markup languages which simply could not cater for our dates , currency measures , and time scales . |
| 13 | One surely could n't hope for greater understanding . ’ |