Example sentences of "could not [vb infin] [noun sg] [noun] " 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| 2 | Airport security was largely superficial , and outdated equipment could not detect plastic explosives . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | The number of companies which could not meet payment orders for lack of sufficient funds rose by 60 per cent . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Although she could no longer bear to live with her father , she could not abandon mortgage payments . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Even their discontented subjects could not imagine routine vices . |
| 10 | And for the same reason Camel Lairds could not gain intervention funding . |
| 11 | The Indians could not install table games like baccarat and poker ; but they could introduce any other sort of gambling already allowed outside the reservation , including off-track betting and , if they could afford it , live races round a track . |
| 12 | Yesterday Mr Prescott could not guarantee road improvements in the North-East until specific criteria had been established to judge where money needs to be spent . |
| 13 | In those circumstances , Community law could not deprive member states of their competence to determine the conditions for the grant of their flags to vessels . |
| 14 | Mr Michael Grade , the channel 's chief executive , yesterday called on the Government to explain why it could not trust ITC appointments . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Could not access LIFESPAN configuration file |
| 17 | But Palestinians rejected the offer and said they could not resume peace talks until all the deportees were returned . |
| 18 | Craig Brewin , chairman of the Football Supporters Association , said fans who could not get tickets for big matches would face ‘ frustration ’ if they could not afford satellite dishes . |
| 19 | Is it not time that those pensioners , including the one who told me that she was keeping warm during the day by clutching a hot-water bottle because she could not afford heating bills , were given a decent state pension as of right , without the humiliation of a contributory test , which involves means-testing for those who are in greatest need ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As we saw earlier , societies were previously inhibited in this by the fact that they could not issue cheque guarantee cards . |
| 23 | From now on , she knew , she could n't set foot wrong . |
| 24 | They could n't make emergency payments themselves , but if I went down to the social security office … |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I could n't find freezer space that 's why I |
| 27 | there was a lot of trouble early on this term when people could n't find stage boards , and like they were all missing and it turns out that they 're like the |
| 28 | ‘ To find out why he could n't get planning permission , I expect , ’ Frank answered almost gleefully . |
| 29 | ‘ But , as a loner , I could n't get trade discounts from the best fabric manufacturers . ’ |
| 30 | [ 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 . |