Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | For I knew there were English-speaking visitors in Geneva if I could only establish communication with them ; they might be induced to take up my cause . |
| 2 | Morgenthau could not rest content with defining power in a way consistent with the rest of his theory , because the theory needed anchoring by means of an objective definition of its key concepts . |
| 3 | And his mother , anxious when she could not make contact with him , reported him missing nine days later . |
| 4 | The dishwasher broke down and they could not keep pace with the washing up . |
| 5 | Thus the silk industry of Valencia , frequently noted by travellers as one of the most promising features of the economy , apart from a period of prosperity between 1835 and 1852 , remained relatively stagnant throughout the nineteenth century ; in the late eighteenth century a technically advanced industry , in the nineteenth it could not keep pace with Lyons . |
| 6 | Despite these developments , charitable subscriptions supplemented by local appeals could not keep pace with rising demand and increasingly expensive treatments . |
| 7 | Increasing problems of indebtedness meant that railway development could not keep pace with changing population patterns . |
| 8 | In the event , however , the project occurred in neither of these areas : not in Barnet because the psychogeriatric service was still in the process of development ; nor in Southwark because , although there was an enormous amount of goodwill and enthusiasm for the project , the social services unions ( particularly the joint Home Helps Shop Stewards Committee ) decided that they could not endorse cooperation with the project , the main reason being that they felt — mistakenly in our view — that a project which employed its own carers might be a threat to the employment of local authority home helps , and that ‘ to endorse such a service is not helping the elderly in the long term , it is only carrying out this Government 's stratagem in closing Homes and hospitals ’ . |
| 9 | Student allowances are often provided by the parents , themselves often low-paid intellectuals and by the mid-1980s , income could hardly keep pace with price rises . |
| 10 | However , independent political analyst Andrew MacMullen says Labour could still secure victory with a smaller swing in its favour . |
| 11 | He could always find fault with something , either in my writing or in my personality — something not difficult to achieve because I have always laid myself open to easy attack . |
| 12 | But if they needed it , they knew they could always get work with him . |
| 13 | In spite of my appeals for him to make some effort to intervene with the King , who could often attain success with a father bent on violent punishment , Kareem dismissed my cries of alarm with unconcealed irritation and insisted the subject be dropped . |
| 14 | You could n't do business with — take over — an organization unless it was private enterprise . |
| 15 | But even I could n't will wakefulness with complete success , and the events of those nights soon began to affect my day-time behaviour . |
| 16 | Most of her friends from school lived with their parents , and most of them were poor ; they could n't have Jamila with them . |
| 17 | It was too much , too soon because his development as a person could n't keep pace with his progress as a tennis player . |
| 18 | And of course , you could n't keep pace with it , because Buckingham Palace had bought it you see , and it was good . |