Example sentences of "and could not [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had her difficulties , too , or she would have been with him by this ; but she was as much the prisoner of circumstances as he , and could not well take ship until she had established a firm and safe regime for her young son . |
| 2 | ‘ Now if the defendants were bound to charge the plaintiff for the carriage of his goods a less sum , and they refused to carry them except upon payment of a greater sum , as he was compelled to pay the amount demanded , and could not otherwise have his goods carried , the case falls within the principle of several decided cases , in which it has been held that money which a party has been wrongfully compelled to pay under circumstances in which he was unable to resist the imposition , may be recovered back in an action for money had and received . |
| 3 | Mistrust of a solicitor had to be based on tangible fact , and could not simply reflect a suspicion of the profession in general . |
| 4 | Secondly , for historical reasons we did not hold records of National Insurance numbers on the payroll file ( and could not easily add them ) . |
| 5 | If at the time of making the contract , the buyer was unaware , and could not reasonably have been aware , of the gravity of the defect , then the court would probably hold that the condition as to merchantable quality was implied . |
| 6 | New evidence is not usually heard , but if it is material and could not reasonably have been heard by the Panel the Committee may hear it or refer it back to the Panel . |
| 7 | A limitation of our study is that we had baseline data on smoking for only a few of the subjects and could not completely control for the potentially confounding effects of cigarette smoking . |
| 8 | The Town wanted to avoid selling players and could not lightly disregard the opportunity of securing bigger receipts from a capacity crowd at Newcastle . |
| 9 | Under the 1982 rule change member firms could not be owned by a single non-member and could not therefore become part of wider groupings — a fact which meant that the London exchange had , in some senses , closed its doors to the rest of the international community . |
| 10 | The problems of selecting Objective 2 regions are particularly illustrated by the UK case , where the final list of Objective 2 regions contained anomalies in that some areas became eligible for EC but not national assistance , despite the fact that ERDF monies were required to be additional to national expenditure and could not therefore constitute 100 per cent of any assistance measure . |
| 11 | But the job advertisements immediately omit people without experience , so therefore Catholics are omitted because they were historically excluded from those types of jobs and could not therefore have any experience . |
| 12 | In the end the ECSC was still trying to integrate only one part of complex industrial economies , and could not possibly pursue its aims in isolation from other economic segments . |
| 13 | It was warm and dry and could not possibly have been out in the snow storm . |
| 14 | ‘ The Home Secretary always escorts the Queen to the door and could not possibly have been at the Cenotaph before her . ’ |
| 15 | He felt surprised by his own honesty in dropping the requested payment into the box and could not quite fathom his motive in lodging the card in the same envelope in his pocket where he kept those of Aphrodite and Silenus . |
| 16 | Their sedentary way of life , the fact that individual families could become units of production and could not only store considerable surpluses , but pass them on to subsequent generations , now meant that the old egalitarian and cooperative values of the hunter-gatherers were gone for ever . |
| 17 | Suddenly there were too many women realising that their happiness had to be taken at the expense of their men 's — men who had promised so much and could not now deliver the goods ; just like her father five years before . |
| 18 | If it went about accusing companies of doing terrible things with their accounts and could not then sustain the accusation , its credibility would quickly collapse . |
| 19 | Old Granny Fordham , who lived in a lonely cottage on the Enderley estate , could n't afford luxuries like butter and eggs , and could n't easily get to the shops in the village , so it would be doing a real service to take Mrs. Grant 's gift to her . |
| 20 | It 's very good — we 've only been there two days and could n't even scratch the surface . |
| 21 | Joanne had torn a ligament so badly refereeing a basketball match that she was on morphine for a week after hospital surgery , and could n't even walk let alone play golf . |
| 22 | And being good at work too , it did n't seem fair on some of the others who had n't got the half of what you had , and could n't even spell or add . |
| 23 | She experienced changeable moods and panic attacks — she had n't been on holiday for 20 years and could n't even go out to dinner for fear of not being able to get away . |
| 24 | ‘ They 've torn the place to pieces and could n't even find a handbag . |
| 25 | Employees can influence profit through productivity and customer-orientation , but have no control over idiot executives who invest in crazy schemes and could n't even market a doughnut . |
| 26 | made it down the right hand side , he 's wearing number eleven but he came down the right hand side on this occasion and er a deep cross , he pulled it back brilliantly and who 'd missed that earlier header was there and could n't really miss on this occasion , but it was a fine header by him . |
| 27 | Pascoe tried to stop himself stiffening to a seated attention position and could n't quite manage it . |
| 28 | I heard Silver on the phone last night and could n't quite belive my ears . |
| 29 | She looked small , frail , and feeble ; her face was dazed and vacant , as if she 'd just been woken up and could n't quite remember where she was . |
| 30 | They thought that we meant the insults and could n't initially figure out why the injured party would fall about laughing instead of going into a sulk . |