Example sentences of "could not [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she could not disregard the friendly warmth of his arms that held her safe from herself until , impossibly , she fell asleep . |
| 2 | If the captives could not speak the same language , reasoned the slavers , they were unlikely to organize effective opposition . |
| 3 | " Officers had instructions from their employers that no English need apply and that the best chance a man could have to get employment would be that he could not speak the English language ; then he was sure to get a situation " . |
| 4 | I could not stand the ridiculous questions people came and posed about my work : ‘ But how do you find such interesting subjects for your poems , Mr Kirkup ? ’ |
| 5 | That meant that they could not stand the Central Office youths involved in the nuts and bolts of the campaign . |
| 6 | Our minds could not stand the constant battering of immediate reaction to the myriad perceptions to which we are subject all the time . |
| 7 | Before long he ‘ could not stand the horrid hotels all by myself … |
| 8 | Curran is convinced that it produced a ‘ muted radicalism ’ but it would be equally justified to claim that the Mirror had to change because it could not portray the 1950s and 1960s in the language or imagery of the 1940s . |
| 9 | For her , restriction of activities to programmes of formal course provision could not satisfy the wider objectives of the WEA . |
| 10 | In such a case the plaintiff could recover the extra cost of the special equipment , but could not recover the basic cost of the car if he would have needed one in any event . |
| 11 | But on March 20th , a week before the hearing was due , he withdrew his request , saying that he could not expect a fair hearing from the governor and had no wish to take part in an ‘ empty game ’ . |
| 12 | He could not want to be kind , could not love the tarnished and ruined thing Sally-Anne Tunstall was , but she looked at him all the same . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , he was a man prudent enough to realise that he could not antagonise the entire civil service . |
| 14 | Now in terms of whether it should be five thousand plus , that of course is a matter of whether there is demand , now my my conclusion , from my fairly extensive knowledge of Greater York , is that you just could not fit a new settlement that size satisfactorily into the settlement and landscape pattern of Greater York , or its immediate surrounds , I just can not identify a location where that could be where where the roads , the public transport , the landscape , or indeed the agricultural land quality , from now onto five an area , suitably large for that type of what would be a a new town . |
| 15 | Even the freemasonry of European royalty could not displace the professional machine in the transaction of international business . |
| 16 | One consequence was that Pitt had to float special government loans at high discounts , because he could not secure a sufficient sum from the " market " . |
| 17 | Britten and William Plomer , his librettist , must have known instinctively that an opera celebrating the most masterful sovereign in English history nevertheless could not offer a modern ( even a Coronation ) audience Good Queen Bess or Schiller 's avenging spitfire . |
| 18 | ( And yet I remember one morning — when confronted by a preliminary plate of very sour , very cold slices of orange I could not stop a few tears trickling miserably down my cheeks — a gruff voice coming from the other end of the table . |
| 19 | But back Northampton went and though they held the first Nottingham surge they could not stop the second and scrum-half Hughes dived over on the left to score a try which earned a standing ovation . |
| 20 | The hard-nosed bullet struck home into the bull 's chest , wounding it fatally , but it could not stop the lunging charge nor ward off the twin crescents of bone thrust upwards into his body with all the force of the seladang 's powerful neck . |
| 21 | Tears would not bring him back , but somehow her mind could not register that , and she could not stop the slow salt trickle from creeping down her cheeks . |
| 22 | He could not stop the clear physical image of their bodies together . |
| 23 | If IBM could not stem the rising tide of networked democracy , will the PRO fare any better ? |
| 24 | We could not detect a significant immunological difference between drug users who seroconverted with bacterial pneumonia and those without , but owing to the long sampling interval the lowest CD4 counts were not necessarily measured . |
| 25 | In the present study , we could not detect a significant difference in orocaecal transit time between patients with and patients without cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy . |
| 26 | Robert Sherwood ‘ could not detect a single flaw — not one error of taste or of authenticity ’ and he particularly appreciated the absence of ‘ scenes wherein the doughboys dash over the top carrying the American flag ’ . |
| 27 | During the war with the Khomeini zealots , I could not command the necessary resources to reactivate the programme following the ‘ 81 setback . |
| 28 | I could not bear a dull father-in-law . |
| 29 | Here I was , for some time , the favourite of Mrs. Simper , my lady 's woman , who could not bear the vulgar girls , and was happy in the attendance of a young woman of some education . |
| 30 | She could not bear the sweet pain of it . |