Example sentences of "could not have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SDP did not and could not have a good war . |
| 2 | But Sartre 's courageous intervention against French and other colonialisms could not have a corresponding theoretical impact so long as he retained his historicist Marxist framework . |
| 3 | The trial was , however , relatively small ( 59 patients ) raising the possibility of a type two error , and it is possible that fluticasone propionate was not present in sigmoid colon and rectum and this could not have a therapeutic effect ( two thirds of patients had rectosigmoid disease only ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If there is danger , you could not have a better man by your side . ’ |
| 6 | Soon after the Surrogacy Arrangements Act 1985 outlawed surrogacy contracts , members of the British Medical Association at their annual meeting voted by a small majority , that surrogacy should be allowed as infertility ’ therapy ’ for couples who could not have a biological child any other way . |