Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What criteria would police and immigration officials use in their search for ‘ potential terrorists ’ on a train that they could not use at a static checkpoint or airport ? |
| 2 | There is no legally guaranteed freedom of speech , no legal right to a fair trial which Parliament could not remove at a stroke . |
| 3 | If Labour could not win at a time of economic gloom , bolstered by the most effective campaign it has ever fought , and facing a Government whose campaign did not really come to life until the last 10 days — then when could it ? |
| 4 | Whatever the truth , the unwelcome publicity could not come at a worse time for Mercedes — just as it is launching its new top-of-the-range ‘ S ’ model after 12 years of development . |
| 5 | Newspaper reports on 12th March that the Bank of Ireland is to shed 600 of its staff over the coming years could not come at a worse time for the economy . |
| 6 | By June he had tried seven different prospective designers without finding one who could give him what he wanted , but was emphatic that he could not work at a distance with Hanns or other Johannesburg artists , ‘ so that 's that ’ . |
| 7 | There was Pete in his class who really needed to shave twice a day , who had a deep voice and a very hairy chest , and he was a known bender ; and there was Stuart , who could n't look at a cloud or a diagram in TD lessons or even sometimes a house without seeing a version of the female anatomy , and lie was as smooth as a babe . |