Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am afraid I could only manage part of the meal and I cut out the second and third courses completely , and only had gravy and vegetables for the third , but most people at my table went right through the menu ! |
| 2 | But we could only take care of little children ! |
| 3 | The machine could only take material of a certain size — not a whole figure , for example — and so fragments were collaged together . |
| 4 | He added that Russia could not secure control of the air . |
| 5 | In this way he was led to discover that the old laws could not make sense of these situations . |
| 6 | As hard as I tried , I could not make use of the staff , so I carried it , hobbling like a stage imbecile . |
| 7 | ( We have taken care here to ensure that an unscrupulous user could not make use of the calculus of expressions to reason about the large scale structure of programs . |
| 8 | And he was right , for unless they could lure the English across into the open they could not make use of their greater numbers or the advantage of the ground . |
| 9 | An observational study of a production line , say , although it might want to talk a great deal about the alienative effects of such work , could not make use of an attitude scale in the way that a questionnaire study might . |
| 10 | Indeed , on the slower systems , John Arnell , business manager with the company 's Personal Systems division admits ‘ we could not meet demand of any substance in the next month ’ . |
| 11 | Indeed , on the slower systems , Arnell , business manager with the company 's Personal Systems division admits ‘ we could not meet demand of any substance in the next month ’ . |
| 12 | With respect to the Secretary of State , I believe that most right hon. and hon. Members found very unconvincing his explanation as to why such a provision could not form part of the Bill . |
| 13 | Teachers and LEAs could not keep track of this deluge , little of which can now be recalled by practitioners in any detail . |
| 14 | The British felt very confident of their position at sea ; to reinforce the strength of their blockage they laid down unilaterally the rule of 1756 that neutrals could not take advantage of wartime conditions to enter upon trade that would not have been allowed in peacetime . |
| 15 | Quoting from The Times , he would agree that , as applied in Poland , Marxism had created a proletariat disposed to ‘ revolutionising practice ’ inspired by those who could not take advantage of the widespread corruption through which a black economy , supported by western currency , operates to mitigate the sheer harshness of a regime of scarcity . |
| 16 | The accused could not take advantage of a previous wrong , i.e. of the forgery by which the money came into his account . |
| 17 | ( Who ever heard of a mother falling so ill she could not take care of her household , whereas everywhere there were men drunk , mad , gaoled , old , worn out-who had become as children again to their wives ? ) |
| 18 | If six men were left , we could not take control of the ship ; and because only six were left , the captain 's men did not need my help . |
| 19 | In contrast to the Hong Kong Basic Law , the Macao draft law imposed no restrictions on foreign passport holders taking key posts in Macao after 1999 except for the chief executive who could not gain right of abode in a foreign country during his term of office . |
| 20 | It could not get hold of me and stifle me ; for it would employ only my hands and a certain section of my knowledge ; the rest of me would be free : after office hours my escape would be absolute ; and then the holidays would enable me , according to my powers and my wishes , to live another life as different as that of Jekyll from that of Hyde . |
| 21 | Now if the Labour group had moved a widening of erm the sort of provision in our elderly persons homes , I could have understood that , because we did n't have real figures , we could not get hold of real figures , every time I went back to a local party meeting , to the Labour group , to any other member they said , do you realise this home has this number of vacancies and your report says that number . |
| 22 | It could not require installation of control devices on vehicles sold in the county until a satisfactory device was available — and no such device was available . |
| 23 | ACCORDING to Max Weber 's ‘ model ’ ‘ charismatic leadership ’ could not survive lack of success . |
| 24 | On page 13 MARY BAILEY already has the cichlids — but if she could just get hold of a six foot tank … |
| 25 | If you could just get hold of say , the rainbow |
| 26 | Also , Prussia was only one of a series of German states and as such could hardly take advantage of the rapidly developing and highly lucrative Atlantic trade . |
| 27 | I was soaked to the skin , my hands so cold I could hardly keep hold of the tiller . |
| 28 | ‘ The gossip columnists could hardly keep track of them ! |
| 29 | The selectors , though , clearly consider that they could still have need of the towering mass of Dooley 's physical presence . |
| 30 | At least now , today , she could ease his suffering , help him forget Madeleine for a little while , make him see that he could still find happiness of a kind without her . |