Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But many Romans were also devout Catholics and prosperous hoteliers ; and conscience and economic need drove them to summon him back , for the city could not prosper in the eyes of God or man , of Simon Peter or Simon Magus , without the holy father . |
| 2 | Kirk then stated that he could not concur in the order and that Robertson expressed his disappointment , but stated that he could not " bother at this time who might or might not be handed over to be shot " and would send his telegram anyway . |
| 3 | Coningham said that he had looked more closely at Scott 's scheme since the last debate , and ‘ could not acquiesce in the high opinion which that gentleman appeared to entertain of himself , judging by the long string of superlatives in his own praise with which he wound up his recent letter to The Times ' . |
| 4 | However , it is important to appreciate that market coordination could not function in the absence of the other modes of coordination . |
| 5 | Although both these comforters were with her , Victoria could not settle in the strange environment . |
| 6 | John survived only because he could not settle in the cabin with his brother and sister . |
| 7 | John escaped death because he could not settle in the doomed cabin where 15-year-old Catherine and 12-year-old James were sleeping . |
| 8 | I could eat alone or the young son and his friends could join me , but I could not eat in the Sheikh 's great majlis with the other men of the household . |
| 9 | In Al Ain I could not eat in the men 's majlis . |
| 10 | In other words , an anxiety dream is a kind of aborted dream , a dream that attempted to disguise a er disturbing latent content but could not succeed in the end . |
| 11 | She could not tell in the torchlight whether it was ink or blood . |
| 12 | But if a total consciousness is an organic whole , then some or all of these parts could not exist in the same character in another different sort of whole . |
| 13 | Thus intelligent life could not exist in the contracting phase of the universe . |
| 14 | This was the conclusion I could not avoid in the months after becoming a Christian . |
| 15 | Surere could not disappear in the way that he had without powerful help . |
| 16 | He could not live in the outside world , because of his terrible , ugly face . |
| 17 | Dr Marshall , whose 18 cats occupy an outhouse , explained that with major damp-proofing repairs being carried out , she could not live in the house . |
| 18 | He could not join in the discussion . |
| 19 | He could not join in the telling of smutty jokes or the foraging expeditions for willing females . |
| 20 | The way in which Eadwine was able eventually to induce Eorpwald , king of the eastern Angles , to accept Christianity ( HE 11 , 15 ) would suggest that the eastern Anglian court was more amenable to Eadwine 's influence than the Mercian upon which Eadwine could not prevail in the same way . |
| 21 | The ministers met again on March 5 , after which a resolution was issued which specified that Arabs in East Jerusalem could not participate in the peace process . |
| 22 | This sequence could not occur in The Possessed — a dangerous thing to say about a very long and diverse book , but true . |
| 23 | But these delicate flowers of parliamentary politics could not blossom in the climate of autocracy . |
| 24 | He could not let in the faintest perfumes of incense-bearing trees in gardens bright with sinuous rills . |
| 25 | He simply could not remember in the end whether Miss Harker had given it back or not . |
| 26 | This was a dimension he could not remember in the old Elsie . |
| 27 | If I could not believe in the sovereignty of God when it was my son lying there how could I tell someone who came for counselling , suffering the whims of a very insensitive partner , ‘ You continue to honour God in this situation . |
| 28 | Charles Lamb could not believe in the Pedlar who narrates most of Book i , and Keats was suspicious of ‘ poetry that has a palpable design on us ’ . |
| 29 | He is bound to say this , indeed , for if we considered only the positive consequences of an action , and not those which would have occurred if it had not been done , one could not count in the suffering which an action prevented in its favour , which would be absurd . |
| 30 | Indeed , my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Surrey , East ( Sir G. Howe ) , in a speech right out of the defeatist book which is kept at the Foreign Office , seemed to declare that a nation with its own currency could not survive in the days of the ecu . |