Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told him that I could not go on behalf of any party , but that I would go on behalf of the government if he came to power , since I knew the situation and could be of some help . |
| 2 | He simply could not go to school . |
| 3 | Robert Carnwath feared that the Act was so confused that we could not go to court with a realistic chance of winning . |
| 4 | The doctrine of original sin and baptismal regeneration meant that an unbaptised infant could not go to heaven . |
| 5 | What we would need to do is establish about Brown 's mental event and Green 's mental event that if either man also had the other 's experience , he could not distinguish in content between the two events . |
| 6 | In only 13 days , Nijinsky 's shattered nerves could not recover in time for the Champion Stakes . |
| 7 | In addition , the hospital 's psychiatric unit could not cope with bed blocking : occupancy often reaches 90% in spring and autumn , leaving inadequate space for emergency admissions . |
| 8 | This was due to the impossibility of conveying such goods between the two cities at a time when the railways could not cope with grain supplies coming into Saratov . |
| 9 | Girl who dies ‘ could not cope with sex ’ |
| 10 | Admin Clerk burst into tears , could not cope with situation . |
| 11 | He said Wellcome could not benefit from tax breaks enjoyed by companies that had set up manufacturing facilities in Puerto Rico . |
| 12 | In a sharply critical personal statement in the House of Commons on Nov. 13 he said that the so-called Madrid conditions for UK entry into the ERM , agreed by the European Council in June 1989 [ see pp. 36740-41 ] , had come into existence only after he and the then Chancellor of the Exchequer , Nigel Lawson , had made it clear that they could not continue in office unless a specific commitment to join the ERM was made , and he accused the Prime Minister of increasingly risking leading herself and others astray in matters of substance as well as of style . |
| 13 | It might look all wrong to the author of ‘ L'Etat et puissance ’ ; to him , kings who could not tax by definition lacked power as well as wealth . |
| 14 | I could not contemplate without alarm the idea of filling up with gloomy looking Buildings in the Gothic style , [ the ] whole of the space between Downing Street and Great George Street . |
| 15 | She could not hope for news every day … . |
| 16 | If innkeepers did not have a right of sale they would be left with the property of guests which they could not realise in order to satisfy the debt . |
| 17 | Sometimes he could not sleep at night for thinking about the one time it had happened . |
| 18 | ‘ I could not sleep in hospital … |
| 19 | The four went back to No. 43 , in a close tender group , Jim as king , as victor , and , unwilling that the evening should be lost , they sat on around the kitchen table , sentinelled by the yellow forsythia , and could not bear to part . |
| 20 | He never ate between breakfast and sunset , but could not last without tea until the meal he clearly still found extraordinary , eaten by wax candlelight in the dining-room at an hour when all his shepherds were asleep . |
| 21 | The nature of the correlations between O isotope ratios and Sr , Nd and Pb isotope ratios is not consistent with assimilation , and the correlation between O and Nd isotope ratios almost certainly could not result from weathering . |
| 22 | She could not settle at school , ran away from home on several occasions and spent most of her time alone . |
| 23 | But the law reports are a random collection of cases , and the very fact that each of those cases resulted from a dispute which the parties could not settle by agreement and had to take to court may make them an unrepresentative sample of the applications of the procedure . |
| 24 | For a while it proved a highly successful combination , but eventually it became apparent that the Japanese spirit could not compensate for inferiority in industrial strength and natural resources in dispelling any sense of national insecurity . |
| 25 | Now , Nell could not conceive of love between a man and a woman , could not bear the thought of ageing . |
| 26 | They could not rely on support from all of their members and the TUC nor could they call out the membership so as to hit other newspapers and so bring indirect pressure to bear on Shah . |
| 27 | John Neville 's inactivity in the face of Edward 's advance surely owed something to awareness that he could not rely on duchy support . |
| 28 | John Neville 's inactivity in the face of Edward 's advance surely owed something to awareness that he could not rely on duchy support . |
| 29 | That being so , the building society , which claimed through the Hammonds could not rely on estoppel by deed . |
| 30 | Leapor , a poor woman , could not dress to advantage ; indeed , her employers ' low regard for her as a servant is partly related to her appearance . |