Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who could not leave work in time could catch the 19:46 and we would all travel back together . |
| 2 | Once she was there it would require a tremendous effort of will to get her back to London — except that she could not leave Holly in charge for more than a day ; and except that she was avid for information about the murder inquiry ; and except that there were any number of good stories she wanted to pursue for the column and any amount of private gossip she wanted to hear . |
| 3 | They could not go side by side . |
| 4 | He was troubled , I could see , because , being unable to share these memories , he could not disentangle truth from fiction or creative embellishment from accurate detail . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He added that Russia could not secure control of the air . |
| 7 | these would soon be extinct if zoos could not offer protection to animals in the same situation . |
| 8 | She could not offer advice as a grandmother , despite her long experience of children ; and now her own children had ceased to confide in her ‘ because they felt that the time had come when I ought to be ‘ spared ’ every possible worry . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Sainsbury 's felt it could not justify investment at either of these locations and instead surprised everyone by buying land at Parc Menai which has already got planning consent for a hotel and conference centre . |
| 11 | She was his straight , his shining Emmie — he could not bear dishonesty in her . |
| 12 | At a round of talks in Madrid on June 22-23 the US side proposed that any country should have the right to resume mining if the signatory nations could not reach agreement within three years . |
| 13 | Efforts to reproduce village patterns of organization and values in urban areas , or the emergence of new ones , could not prevent dislocation in social structure and family life . |
| 14 | And his mother , anxious when she could not make contact with him , reported him missing nine days later . |
| 15 | In this way he was led to discover that the old laws could not make sense of these situations . |
| 16 | As hard as I tried , I could not make use of the staff , so I carried it , hobbling like a stage imbecile . |
| 17 | ( 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | In this study we could not show correlation between pathological scores or their distribution and any clinical parameter . |
| 24 | It is one of civil politeness with the inn keeper realising that he could not beat Turnour in a fight and so he is prepared to bend under Turnour 's will as shown by his ‘ almost ’ friendliness when telling Turnour about his house and his asking of when Turnour would like to eat . |
| 25 | Policy discontinuity frustrated industrialists and investors who wished to engage in forward planning : they could not anticipate stability in government programs . |
| 26 | In all of this it has been assumed that the general rule applies and that X , not being the owner could not confer ownership on Y who in turn could not confer ownership on Z. It now remains to examine those exceptional situations where the original owner may lose his ownership , i.e. where title may be conferred by someone who himself has no title . |
| 27 | In all of this it has been assumed that the general rule applies and that X , not being the owner could not confer ownership on Y who in turn could not confer ownership on Z. It now remains to examine those exceptional situations where the original owner may lose his ownership , i.e. where title may be conferred by someone who himself has no title . |
| 28 | Ceauşescu could not wage war against foreign enemies — his neighbours after all were his fraternal allies — so he could only provide means for his ambitious plans by waging economic war against his own people . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ With a very great number of credit grantors not being members of any trade association and others being members of more than one , such a system could not give rise to a fair method of raising a levy . |