Example sentences of "could not [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Edmonds said all companies would have to pay the same base rate so they could not complain of unfair competition . |
| 2 | For example , as Duncanson points out , in the public services there was the principle that natives could not aspire to higher posts whatever their technical qualifications . |
| 3 | In reply , Sir Derek said that though he could not speak for other directors , ‘ my resignation has been available to the board from the day all this started . |
| 4 | Each contributed much , but they did not often speak to each other , and indeed almost literally could not speak to each other . |
| 5 | He could not go like that . |
| 6 | The settlement er in all probability as we established yesterday morning , could not go within those few fields which are in the Greater York area and not in the greenbelt . |
| 7 | Most of the girls I spoke to said they could not talk about these things to their mothers , and some of their mothers were no more than seventeen or nineteen years older than themselves . |
| 8 | We have met many A&R men but we felt we could not talk to most of them on any sensible basis , ’ says Gedge . |
| 9 | There were , of course , other causes than ecclesiastical for the changing attitudes : public decorum , proper behaviour and increasingly complicated social rituals — as in mourning , dining , dressing and visiting — were part of Victorian middle and upper-class life and the churches could not stand outside these changes . |
| 10 | She and her husband were on the brink of breaking up and she could not cope with personal relationships . |
| 11 | A DEPRESSED mum has vanished with her three mischievous sons after saying she could not cope with long school holidays and mounting debts . |
| 12 | A number of manors , such as Patching , complained repeatedly that they could not cope with such demands ; there is little evidence that they got any cuts . |
| 13 | The revolutionaries tended to be drawn from those who could not cope with normal life , with a regular profession , with human relationships . |
| 14 | ‘ He could not cope with this rather alien environment of civilian life , ’ he said . |
| 15 | For visitors would stare at her , ask her questions , would talk and expect a reply , and Alida knew that she could say nothing , could not cope with any demands . |
| 16 | The mandarins of Communist China were quite clear that their empire could not cope with unemployed or dispossessed donkey drivers . |
| 17 | Authorities put a low priority on helping the disabled and could not cope in complicated situations . |
| 18 | Coniston School principal Madeleine Harvey hit back yesterday at claims that her teachers could not cater for four-year-old Nicholas . |
| 19 | He said he could not serve on that sub-committeee ( consisting of Brian Close , Bob Appleyard , Phil Sharpe , Bryan Stott , Tony Woodhouse ) ‘ when I do not see eye to eye with them on any subject ’ . |
| 20 | We of course understood if he could not move on personal grounds , but those grounds could be related to health , or elderly parents , or children 's schooling — never his wife 's career . |
| 21 | ‘ He could not move at all , not even a blink , ’ she said . |
| 22 | ‘ But within half and hour I could not move at all and I went to hospital . |
| 23 | The history of welfare state legislation and of political interventions to manage economic development is interpreted as a fairly consistent chronicle of dominant business interests recognizing that government regulation protects their established position from new sources of competition at home or abroad , or fosters growth in demand which they could not secure by other means . |
| 24 | He thought it a pity that the people could not hibernate like certain animals and come out again at Easter when they would once more have compelling and urgent business to attend to . |
| 25 | Their low productivity , high levels of ( now-withdrawn ) state subsidy and overmanning meant that they could not compete with agricultural products from West Germany and other EC countries . |
| 26 | This policy meant a sacrifice of agricultural exports , since French grain prices could not compete with American , but France preserved her farming industry . |
| 27 | Most houses had rows of jars with fermenting liquid — the only losers were the pubs who just could not compete with this almost free wine , which I remember — I had a sip or two when no-one was looking , was of sweet taste but with a real kick . |
| 28 | But there is no reason to think that airlines based in Europe could not compete in this expanded transatlantic market . |
| 29 | British Rail had introduced new safety measures over the last few months , but they could not legislate against criminal vandalism |
| 30 | But he could not think of any other way to work safely . |