Example sentences of "could not [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In reply , Sir Derek said that though he could not speak for other directors , ‘ my resignation has been available to the board from the day all this started . |
| 2 | Coniston School principal Madeleine Harvey hit back yesterday at claims that her teachers could not cater for four-year-old Nicholas . |
| 3 | He could not sleep for two days before Billy 's first night , on 1 May 1974 , and he was unable to eat during the day of the opening show , which was attended by Princess Margaret and the Queen Mother . |
| 4 | I could not sleep for sheer fatigue . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , some of the patients could not return for frequent follow up visits to our clinic because of distance and also health care costs and were therefore referred back with our treatment plan to their own physicians . |
| 6 | Although it made him uneasy , he could not tell for some moments what it was . |
| 7 | Downes himself could not stay for more than a few minutes . |
| 8 | Mr Anderson told the tribunal he could not apply for bad debt relief until 12 months after the debt had arisen while Customs had penalised him for paying the VAT ‘ a mere 16 days late . ’ |
| 9 | Minors could not qualify for free shares under the terms of the recent Abbey conversion to a public limited company . |
| 10 | Harry could not move , could not speak , could not judge for this suspended moment whether what he saw was recollected or imagined . |
| 11 | ‘ Whilst it was the physician 's opinion that she had not had carnal relations for some two years , he could not say for certain . |
| 12 | Mrs Ayers , who is still recovering from the shock , said at the moment she could not say for certain anything had been taken . |
| 13 | We could not wish for greater clarity . |
| 14 | It was held that the tailor could not sue for any money because the goods were not necessaries ; the minor was already well supplied with waistcoats . |
| 15 | The editor of that paper and the writer could not sue for this honest , if exaggerated , appraisal of their work . |
| 16 | Psychoanalytic theory reached a point where it could not account for all the observations made within the analytic setting , nor for the murdering impulses shown in mankind 's historical and cultural development . |
| 17 | Without it , psychoanalytic theory could not account for all that it had been observed human beings could do to themselves and to one another . |
| 18 | They argued that an interpretation in terms of the relative potency of crossed and uncrossed pathways could not account for this result . |
| 19 | Yet Richard , who always put each section of his life , when it was finished with , quietly behind him , and liked to be able to give a rational explanation for everything , could not account for this , his attachment to Lord Jim . |