Example sentences of "could not [verb] a good " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was told the service was really only for pilots flying unaccompanied , who could not maintain a good lookout whilst otherwise engaged , and that the service applied essentially to commercial operations . |
| 2 | While Adorno confines this category to ‘ serious ’ music , Paddison points out that there seems no reason why it could not include a good deal of avant-garde jazz and such rock groups as Frank Zappa 's Mothers of Invention the Velvet Underground , and — he might have added — some post-punk bands . |
| 3 | He was wearing a grubby trench coat with the collar turned up so I still could not get a good look at him , but there was no mistaking his dimensions . |
| 4 | Therefore he could not claim a good title by raising an estoppel against the true owner . |
| 5 | The SDP did not and could not have a good war . |
| 6 | Built in 1540 , these lovely red-brick stables have been loaned to the Horse Rangers by grace and favour since 1964 , and could not have a better tenant than this exclusive voluntary organisation — exclusive that is to children who do not have their own horses and ponies . |
| 7 | If there is danger , you could not have a better man by your side . ’ |