Example sentences of "could not [vb infin] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ( 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In the present study , we could not detect a significant difference in orocaecal transit time between patients with and patients without cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | I could not bear a dull father-in-law . |
| 10 | Moreover , there is no reason to believe that , with improvements , particularly in relation to housing , labour mobility programmes could not affect a larger number of workers . |
| 11 | The Financial Advisers ( now Charles Luker with John Chalcraft ) , juggled to keep things afloat but could not prevent a small deficit in 1943 . |
| 12 | and their Parliamentary advisors took a long hard look at the powers which they held and decided that the 1902 Act as it stood , could not make a viable tramway system , even when grafted onto the existing Corporation system . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , the Air Staff , who preferred the military version of the VC-7 , the V-1000 , could not make a strong enough case to offset the commercial and political arguments favouring the Britannia . |
| 14 | Hunt reported on 14th December , 1858 that he had found that the site was just adequate , but he could not make a precise calculation until the accommodation requirements had been considered further by the India Office and the space required by the Foreign Office had been settled . |
| 15 | Although Gaitskell at first stood his ground , it was obvious that , in the face of obstruction from the industry , he could not make a sensible price policy stick , and in July he announced the abandonment of the Clow surcharge . |
| 16 | The founders of the Community knew that they could not create a viable organisation if they established goals that could never be achieved . |
| 17 | Napoleon was to find that the best roads in Europe could not create a European market . |
| 18 | Some limit was placed on the company 's power to create charges having priority to the floating charge by the decision of Sargant J. that a company could not create a floating charge on the same assets ranking in priority to or pari passu with the original floating charge . |
| 19 | Did my right hon. and learned Friend notice that last summer the independent report into Leeds primary schools showed clearly that the schools that had had enhanced resources and more teachers could not show a positive correlation between extra resources and higher standards and , moreover , that the report highlighted the problem of teaching methods ? |
| 20 | We could not show a significant difference between the extent of gastric metaplasia at sites around ulcer craters or scars and macroscopically normal appearing mucosa . |
| 21 | When the company announced on January 16th that it would close the New York Daily News within 60 days if it could not settle a crippling strike at the newspaper , Wall Street breathed a sigh of relief and the company 's share price soared . |
| 22 | Dexter saw that Blanche could not hide a faint sneer of distaste at how the TV reporter had behaved . |
| 23 | Although the Commission is a statutory body with a wide remit to promote the interests of crofters , it is so tightly bound by the rule of ‘ ultra vires ’ and treasury control , that it could not devote a minuscule sum to an experiment the results of which were endorsed by the Chief Inspector of Schools for the North and Highland Division , who wrote ‘ I should very much like to see continued the special educational merits of the scheme , challenge without competition , linkage of school and community in common effort , availability of expert advice to schools as they link theory with practice , financial assistance for bigger Projects , commitments which continue ’ . |
| 24 | When the hon. Member for Gedling mentioned the Secretary of State being a great supporter of the pillars of local government , I could not avoid a little chuckle . |
| 25 | If the House was worried , the government could not refuse a full explanation nor could it return to its other business till members were satisfied . |
| 26 | Much work might remain for the clergy both in imposing a code of Christian morals , and in determining where the line was to run between what could and what could not form a respectable part of the Christian life . |
| 27 | Here Laski was highly critical of the abstract legal idea of absolute legal sovereignty , arguing that it could not form a realistic basis for political relationships . |
| 28 | One of them — the owner of a mobile whelk stall in South Wimbledon — had told the doctor that he could sentence her to death until he was blue in the face and that he , personally , could not give a flying fuck . |
| 29 | A brief calculation showed that if the client is entitled to severe disability premium he would be entitled to income support but could not sign a green form to give this initial advice or to act on the other matter . |
| 30 | When Flagstad could not manage a high C in the 1952 Furtwängler recording of Wagner 's Tristan und Isolde , Elisabeth Schwarzkopf sang it instead . |