Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [adv] [vb infin] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a sex , women joined other culturally disenfranchised groups who could not easily participate in high culture . |
| 2 | Women could not normally inherit in other ancient Near Eastern countries , but in Israel the ruling is given that brotherless daughters may inherit . |
| 3 | In the laboratory he did undoubtedly think with his hands thoughts which he could not clearly express in words , or in the more accurate language of mathematics ( which he distrusted ) ; but he did try in his lectures to put across some of his underlying convictions . |
| 4 | Desperate for points to avoid relegation , they could not even succeed in keeping the score down despite a creditable second-half rally ; only Summers 's try was added to Gill 's 25th try . |
| 5 | He said teachers in the humanities believed that pupils were obtaining grades they could not possibly achieve in exams . |
| 6 | She wept softly , while he held her and believed in the augury that this happiness could not possibly end in death on a battlefield , for such an end would be against all that was good and sweet and lovely in the world . |
| 7 | Nicholson could not now appear in the film because he was too old for the original role which had been designated for him , and anyway he wanted to give it his fullest attention as director . |
| 8 | The appointment of the famous doctor and educational theorist Nikolai Pirogov to the headship of the Odessa educational district in 1856 demonstrated that under Alexander II enlightened academics could not only serve in educational institutions , but also run them . |
| 9 | I could n't even sing in church . ’ |
| 10 | I could n't even sing in church . |
| 11 | In the end I found I could n't even live in it . ’ |
| 12 | It looked like a dull day outside but she could n't just sit in her room doing nothing . |
| 13 | Erm however absolute egalitarianism showed that it could n't actually work in practice because there was n't they underestimated the amount of land which , that could be redistributed and you had leftist and rightist deviations where which meant that how that industry and commerce was being threatened and landlords were just being indiscriminately killed . |
| 14 | Could n't really see in the corner whether it was going , so tight . |
| 15 | I do n't think I could ever go back to Bedford to live , and I could n't never live in that flat anyway because it 's been desecrated . |
| 16 | ‘ She was an earth-mother type who could n't quite believe in all her success . |
| 17 | Xanthe , however , alarmed by the departure of her new-found friend , was practically clinging to Mrs Young and with an echo of the earlier hysteria was saying that she could n't possibly sleep in the private car , she would have nightmares , she would be too scared to stay , she was sure whoever had uncoupled the car before would do it again in the middle of the night , and they would all be killed when the Canadian crashed into them , because the Canadian was still there behind us , was n't it , was n't it ? |
| 18 | I could n't possibly compete in those stakes , so I racked my brain to think of small things which they might like . |
| 19 | I could n't possibly stay in the house , |
| 20 | I think it 's probably fairly similar , but of course it gets more sophisticated , both in terms of the intellectual level at which you talk about chemistry , the concepts and so forth , and also in terms of the sort of experiments you can do because we have such sophisticated apparatus now , which you could n't possibly get in a school laboratory . |
| 21 | The lad tinkered happily with a multi-pronged screwdriver that could n't possibly work in real life . |
| 22 | And in this last day , she must have been camping about , I do n't know how , but somehow she was traversing I she probably did n't she was using the living room as a store , I could only think that , she could n't possibly live in it . |