Example sentences of "could not [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An amputee , she could not yet accustom herself to what was lost and gone , lost as her parents scattered in fragments over the Nevada desert . |
| 2 | Since the Act overrode the duty of confidence , it must also override inter partes orders made on that basis , otherwise the Bank could not properly discharge its public duty of supervision . |
| 3 | Frederica was put in mind , mutatis mutandis , starting with the intention , of Miss Havisham bidding the boy Pip to play , of the brewery yard where he had met Herbert Pocket , which ( the yard ) irked her , because she could not properly visualise it . |
| 4 | She turned her head on the pillow , so he could not properly see her face , only the Greuze-like line of her cheek . |
| 5 | and we , we would ask of that , but the next point and erm , is this my Lord erm at the moment erm the negotiations are erm proceeding in relation to the house , about which we have heard evidence , er , we could not properly buy it until it had been investigated by the court of protection and there was approval of that , and er it will be necessary for er consideration to be given as to how it should be purchased , in practical terms , firstly your Lordship has erm awarded a figure of seventy one thousand pounds , then there is the eighty thousand pounds on the existing house which takes one up to a hundred and fifty or thereabouts , and one sees that the special damages and interest thereon comes to something over fifty two thousand pounds to which these er parents will be entitled in the normal way , and if they were to apply , they might do and apply , that would go a long way to purchasing it and the court of protection , if it approved that might take the view that it would be fair to take something out of the notional aspect of damages for loss of earnings , because after all the plaintiff would have spent his earnings for housing and so on in the future , that , that is the sort of problems that now have to be tackled er what , what we would respect and suggest is er simply that there is liberty to apply erm . |
| 6 | A refusal in such circumstances may well not reflect my employer 's true feelings on the matter , but once having sustained such a dismissal , I could not easily bring it up again . |
| 7 | In short , capitalist states were becoming thoroughly entangled in a set of conflicts from which they could not easily extricate themselves . |
| 8 | Finally , while the Americans were well aware of Britain 's economic problems , they could not easily reconcile themselves to the need for actual defence cuts . |
| 9 | There was no need to run , for he knew they would be following the horses , and on the highway he could not easily lose them . |
| 10 | Secondly , for historical reasons we did not hold records of National Insurance numbers on the payroll file ( and could not easily add them ) . |
| 11 | My free wing hung from the pole for I could not easily close it without terrible pain ; my eyes were fixed on them . |
| 12 | She could not immediately do anything for Nina . |
| 13 | Her family is described as " infirm " , and this may explain why even with two of her daughters grown women in their twenties the family was able to earn little , although it may also reflect the fact that earning opportunities for women were so poor that even able-bodied spinsters could not wholly maintain themselves . |
| 14 | Pressing his hand against her bosom or kissing his fingers softly and reverently , she told him that she knew and had always known that only she could make him happy , that there was already a mystical bond between them and that if she could not soon feel his arms about her and his lips upon her own , she would sink away into despair . |
| 15 | On his view , modern technological societies could not simply change their sexual morality and sexual socialization without there being consequences in other parts of the society . |
| 16 | I could not simply invite you to visit me , situated as you are . ’ |
| 17 | Littledale J. said , at p. 739 , that the payment was not voluntary because the plaintiff submitted to pay the sum claimed , as he could not otherwise procure his licence . |
| 18 | Bayley , Holroyd and Littledale JJ. all agreed that the payment was not voluntary , the latter remarking , at p. 739 , that the plaintiff had ‘ submitted to pay the sum claimed , as he could not otherwise procure his licence . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Now if the defendants were bound to charge the plaintiff for the carriage of his goods a less sum , and they refused to carry them except upon payment of a greater sum , as he was compelled to pay the amount demanded , and could not otherwise have his goods carried , the case falls within the principle of several decided cases , in which it has been held that money which a party has been wrongfully compelled to pay under circumstances in which he was unable to resist the imposition , may be recovered back in an action for money had and received . |
| 20 | The most ambitious suggestion will be that the units behave in a way functional for the system , as demonstrated by showing why the system could not otherwise maintain its impetus . |
| 21 | Jasmine was like many horses : sold as a three-year-old because her owner had found that he could not successfully train her . |
| 22 | Colleges could not longer sustain their initial teacher education ? |
| 23 | After this she began to hear strange sounds and melodies ‘ that she could not well hear what a man said to her at that time , unless he spoke the louder . |
| 24 | They could not afford another campaign : they had run through the treasure inherited from Edward II so quickly that they could not even pay their Hainault mercenaries , and they had to borrow both from the Florentine banking house of Bardi and from English merchants . |
| 25 | But he could not say Vivien 's name then , he could not even think it , only look about him fearfully , clenching his hands . |
| 26 | She did not move , she was too heavy with all that had happened , she could not even lift her hands to cover her face . |
| 27 | By early 1904 , according to Mr Chernow , its cash flow could not even cover its dividends . |
| 28 | How could such a proud gentleman be so much in the power of one of his servants that he could not even punish her for trying to kill him ? |
| 29 | Now I could not even write my own poems to my satisfaction : I felt crippled . |
| 30 | One thing was clear in the confusion-that I could not even let myself think about the matter unless my physical health was up to it . |