Example sentences of "could not [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lachlan was being left in charge of the castle , and Lady Marion could not go to the ceremony , for the baby was near its time . |
| 2 | The letter must have said that she could not go to the Mansion again . |
| 3 | Blanche could not go to the hospital herself . |
| 4 | I could not go to the Hall earlier that day . ’ |
| 5 | Why was it right to train a fellow and you knew , or you felt that , you could not go to the flight commander or the wing commander and say a think this fellow should go down the pits , " or a think we should remuster him to the Army or the Navy " . |
| 6 | Cards could not talk to the divinator . |
| 7 | Those who could stand the pace flourished ; those who could not went to the wall . |
| 8 | It also shows that , when Russian enterprises reacted to the reforms by jacking up prices and withholding output , they were not doing so because they could not adapt to the bewildering change around them ; they were reacting to the incentives they faced , which said that goods were stores of value while money was not . |
| 9 | There was the commander of the Cigognes , Captain Brocard , wounded during the first days of the fighting at Verdun , and relieved of his command the following year — because he simply could not adapt to the new conditions of air warfare the old form of single combat that had brought the Cigognes such renown in the early days . |
| 10 | It could not refer to the events of ten years past , of course it could n't . |
| 11 | The man dropped the tiny fraction of the cigarette that he could not smoke to the ground , letting the last acrid smoulder of it rise in the air . |
| 12 | Something that was not form , but was only matter , could not become general in this way and could not answer to the generality of the concepts with which we think . |
| 13 | She could not walk to the shops as there was no guarantee she would arrive there , let alone walk back . |
| 14 | Sam Corry and his medics carried the wounded who could not walk to the top of the rock above the landing beach , to which they were then lowered , down the rock face , on stretchers . |
| 15 | She could not walk to the block , so the executioner helped her . |
| 16 | Now they say that even when they get a new manager , they could not return to the traditional pattern of advice workers advising and the manager doing the rest . |
| 17 | Other prisoners said that in Keraterm — a notorious PoW camp which they dubbed Auschwitz — prisoners were crippled by having the ligaments in a knee cut out and tied in a knot so they could not return to the fighting . |
| 18 | The argument of Edward 's lawyers that a woman could not succeed to a fief was not upheld by local custom , and so Jean I of Armagnac remained the beneficiary of much of the de Goth inheritance in the duchy . |
| 19 | At first , my mind could not adjust to the missing three months , so that I sat stupidly with the paper in my hands , staring at it . |
| 20 | Before the advent of machinery , English hand workers could not spin to the requisite fineness to rival Asian calicos . |
| 21 | A tradition that was based only on communication could not lead to the compulsive character that attaches to religious phenomena . |
| 22 | Many disabled people could not travel to the polling station , and few knew beforehand whether it was accessible , or even whether they could get into the booths . |
| 23 | The High Court in Dublin sparked a huge controversy on Feb. 17 when it ruled that a 14-year-old girl , who became pregnant after allegedly being raped by the father of a friend , could not travel to the United Kingdom for an abortion . |
| 24 | Clara could not explain to the school that it was not so much a question of finance , as of her mother 's instinctive opposition to any pleasurable project — and anyone could see that a visit to Paris could not possibly fail to entail more pleasure than instruction . |
| 25 | The Governors declared their willingness to be flexible and co-operative with the Government 's ideas , but pointed out that , while the School was probably already comprehensive as regarded area and by virtue of its covering a fair cross-section of the population , it could not contribute to the particular concept ( by accepting the full range of abilities ) without destroying itself . |
| 26 | The only consequence of the Secretary of State 's admission that the Drum appeal consent , issued in terms of policy HP8 , could not contribute to the Edinburgh HP4 supply , was the ‘ de minimus ’ affect of reducing the land to meet the HP4 requirement by some 129 units . |
| 27 | For , of course , you could not see to the foot of the hill , let alone seven counties , under the stars . |
| 28 | That article 34 could not apply to the three hauliers on the simple reasoning that each carrier had a separate consignment note and article 34 only applied to cases where successive carriers operated under a single consignment note . |
| 29 | The registrar granted the administrators leave to serve the originating application on the bank in Jersey pursuant to rule 12.12 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 Mervyn Davies J. granted the bank 's application to set aside the registrar 's order , holding that section 238 of the Act of 1986 did not have extraterritorial effect so as to include a foreigner resident abroad , and that ‘ any person ’ in the section could not apply to the bank . |
| 30 | Having decided that Rome had to be treated as a member of the civilized community of the Greek world they could not apply to the study of Roman life those methods which they used , very competently , to describe barbarians . |