Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | To do the navy justice , however , it must again be emphasised that powerful interest could rarely secure promotion for the unqualified , and in the naval service some ability was a prerequisite for advancement . |
| 2 | So now when our crews came back from their missions and we heard snatches of their conversations about long lines of refugees , about cities being devastated , and miles and miles of fires , I remembered Kings Cross and could only feel pity for what these civilians were now enduring ; French , Dutch , German or whatever . |
| 3 | In the event , however , the Commission could only obtain agreement for 5 per cent of the ERDF budget to be non-quota , and very little interest was expressed in these funds by member states . |
| 4 | But if naval patronage did prove to be of considerable value to the Elphinstone family interest , reinforcing the impact of the Indian patronage distributed by Keith 's brother , William Elphinstone , the fleet could only provide patronage for those officers fortunate enough to be employed in a command in a suitable station far from Great Britain . |
| 5 | Whether there was any political party that could comfortably find room for him was a difficult question . |
| 6 | Almost two centuries later it was being proposed that in much the same way every Spanish ambassador should have assigned to him a son or younger brother " to assist him as a comrade in his work " , be instructed in the conduct of embassy business and handle matters the ambassador himself could not spare time for , with the implication that he might well succeed to the post if it fell vacant . |
| 7 | John , whose Gospel scheme does not include , except by implication , the story of what the church , equipped with the Holy Spirit , achieved , and therefore could not make room for Pentecost ( as Luke does at the outset of his second volume ) , nevertheless makes the same point with considerable clarity In the first chapter of his Gospel he stresses that the Spirit rests exclusively upon Jesus , the fulfilment of the messianic hopes of the Old Testament for the bearer of the Spirit . |
| 8 | Despite the imposition of price controls , his government could not win acceptance for its pay restraint policy on the part of the TUC . |
| 9 | The security at the Palace was so tight that even the band 's ersatz manager , Scott Piering , could not gain admittance for his close acquaintances . |
| 10 | One central committee member , Ognjen Krstulovic , resigned because he could not accept responsibility for the implementation of the policy . |
| 11 | Although many boatmen 's wives acted as crew they were not recognised as such and could not get compensation for injury or sick pay . |
| 12 | When they could not get gold for their dollars after 1971 ( the US gold stock fell by only $2½ billion over the whole period ) , they only acquired these dollars because they were prepared to sell their own currencies in order to prevent them rising further . |
| 13 | Having got this joke out of the way , she was then told no she could not have money for food , but she could have cash for a carpet . |
| 14 | There is plenty of strategy here , but more heart and pain than you could possibly have room for . |
| 15 | Oddly , despite her own feelings towards Rune , she could still feel sympathy for the other girl . |
| 16 | Gabriel could always find time for a little flirtation . |
| 17 | You could always try advertising for a regular babysitter — at health clinics , shop windows , in the paper , and so on . |
| 18 | You could usually win support for bypasses from unhappy communities who had been pounded by heavy traffic on roads quite inadequate for the purpose . |
| 19 | Not only were they more cheaply remunerated — at the church 's expense , mainly — and far more experienced in the business and technicalities of administration and negotiation , but their clerical status gave them a weight which most laymen could only acquire by aristocratic connections or by ennoblement ; lay chancellors , to be of any consequence , needed political and dynastic links , which could also spell danger for the king . |
| 20 | I could now forget Bill for hours , even days , then one sniff of wet plaster and I went straight back to Marcus Small Ward Two . |
| 21 | You could n't take responsibility for living bodies , blood that can flow , nerves that can actually feel . |
| 22 | " But I could n't take responsibility for them , " Mr. Mendez said . |
| 23 | Nature was blooming and burgeoning , but poor Karen could n't get gravid for love or money . |
| 24 | A minute or two later Pat said he could n't keep height for lack of power and we would have to ditch . |
| 25 | ‘ Could n't play squash for an hour . |
| 26 | A they could n't er they could n't get er th they could n't provide accommodation for all the hundreds that they were , you see . |
| 27 | One of the things that was popular was that the smaller things like rabbit clubs when people could then get food for them officially if they did that . |
| 28 | Secondly , giving a second full course of vaccine without determining whether the person being vaccinated is an infectious carrier would mean that the person could potentially transmit infection for at least six months before being identified . |
| 29 | According to government estimates , the Soufriere geothermal project could potentially provide electricity for around a quarter of the island 's population and saved about US$250 million in foreign exchange over a 30-year period . |
| 30 | Leeds just could nt keep possession for any time , so were nt building attacks , even the clearances started going out of play . |