Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | INVINCIBLE : Parkinson 's Disease could not stop soccer star Chris Garland from walking 130 miles with Botham |
| 2 | We may note Le Chevalier qui fist parler les cons ( seven manuscript copies ) , Cele qui se fist foutre sur la fosse de son mari , " The woman who got fucked on the tomb of her husband " ( six copies ) , Cele qui fu foutue et desfoutue ( six copies ) , La Damoiselle qui ne pooit oïr parler de foutre , " The maid who could not bear hearing talk of fucking " ( five copies ) , La Coille noire , " The black balls " ( six copies ) or La Dame escoillee , " The woman who had her balls cut off " ( six copies ) . |
| 3 | East German nuclear power plants would have to be closed down immediately , because they could not meet EC safety norms . |
| 4 | Soft ground is essential for Yahoo and conditions should be to his liking , although if he could not beat Desert Orchid in the Cheltenham bog it is difficult to visualise him doing it at Kempton . |
| 5 | He did have ( and I know this as I was on his staff at the time ) some sympathy with Coastal Command in view of its flight in the Atlantic , particularly in the Western Approaches and more especially in what was called the " black pit " , this was an area in the Atlantic where the RAF could not give air cover to the convoys either from Ireland . |
| 6 | Gerhard Riege , a Party of Democratic Socialism ( PDS ) member of the Bundestag ( lower house of federal parliament ) , committed suicide on Feb. 15 , leaving a note in which he stated that he could not face media publicity concerning his alleged Stasi connections in the former GDR . |
| 7 | The only credible explanation is that Nkrumah , with Rhodesia fresh in his mind , felt he could not tolerate superpower indifference to the Third World any longer . |
| 8 | Neglect of this obvious truth led to computer programs ( say , for language analysis ) being regarded as failures if they could not record 100% success . |
| 9 | And for the same reason Camel Lairds could not gain intervention funding . |
| 10 | defence insurers argued against the order 14 summons on two counts ; first the plaintiff could not obtain summary judgement because there were two defendants and one might escape liability ; secondly the first defendant sought leave to amend his defence to argue contributory negligence because the plaintiff had not worn a seat belt . |
| 11 | Could not access LIFESPAN configuration file |
| 12 | The District 's Annual Report for 1959–60 said that , although the WEA 's national officers were still trying to achieve this increased grant , the Eastern had exceptionally-strong claims and accordingly ‘ we are now pressing for special consideration ’ : in other words , Jacques was arguing with the Ministry that , even if it could not afford 90% grant to the WEA as a whole , could this not be allowed to the Eastern District individually ? |
| 13 | Then , due to the current troubles , they were taken away from them and offered to Gateshead , who agreed to take them but then could not get television coverage , so they went to Germany . |
| 14 | This prohibition on other forms of lending meant that they could not issue cheque guarantee cards because they would then be obliged to honour cheques of depositors who overdrew their accounts thereby , in effect , giving them an overdraft . |
| 15 | As we saw earlier , societies were previously inhibited in this by the fact that they could not issue cheque guarantee cards . |
| 16 | From now on , she knew , she could n't set foot wrong . |
| 17 | We could n't leave Malham country without seeing the Cove and we made a detour in the mini-bus . |
| 18 | Well , obviously Eleventh Hour — I could n't imagine Alan Fountain 's output at the BBC . |
| 19 | you were n't in and I could n't , I could n't find telephone number to give him a ring , I 've just got , I 've just got through to Directory Enquiries , got the number , just gon na dial it and gran says Annette 's home . |
| 20 | I could n't find freezer space that 's why I |
| 21 | ‘ To find out why he could n't get planning permission , I expect , ’ Frank answered almost gleefully . |
| 22 | [ But ] the author excludes too many dialectical tensions from the book at the start : no church music will be considered ; no worrying about those Americans who could n't afford sheet music and a piano in the parlor is allowed either ; and no room for primarily instrumental music like marches , ragtime , jazz , or polka music up to 1950 . |
| 23 | Yes , Chair , I , I mean I support the criteria that 's been laid out in five two there , I think it 's very important that we do actually , important that we do actually highlight the issue of low pay , and where it 's occurring , and in , in some way that then prevents companies , the , the unscrupulous type of companies that would come in to exploit that , from actually doing it , since most people would then be aware it , and I think that the last speaker 's just suggested that it 's an extremely cheap way of obtaining masses of information about Shropshire 's erm , earnings levels , and I think that 's very important that we are , and do come to grips with that , and clearly could n't afford officer time to be spent on , on merely collating that all the time . |
| 24 | I could n't class Sunday morning 's action replay of Saturday night as ‘ playing me up ’ . |