Example sentences of "could not [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The possibility of Japanese defence forces taking over after the peace treaty was opposed by MacArthur : it would be a violation of existing commitments , would be contrary to SCAP policies hitherto and in any event could not transform Japan into a significant military power . |
| 2 | Those who could not leave work in time could catch the 19:46 and we would all travel back together . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | On the other hand , the same music had to serve for six more stanzas — Pisano wrote fresh music for the short final one and therefore could not reflect details of the text . |
| 5 | They could not go side by side . |
| 6 | He also could not visit Spain without recollecting that last romantic horizon , the Spanish Civil War . |
| 7 | For example , the doctor who used crutches said that he would find surgery difficult and could not visit patients at home because of access problems . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In that respect the banks argued that Mr Crawley had no locus standi , and the judge agreed that a shareholder could not recover damages for any reduction in value of his shareholding . |
| 10 | But her annoyance over the pictures could not distract Catherine from her latest — and biggest — ambition . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Britain was granted a specially lenient deal because Environment Minister Lord Caithness argued that it could not fit FGD in the required timescale , and that it had domestic high sulphur coal which it ‘ had to use ’ whereas other countries relied mainly on imported low sulphur coal . |
| 13 | 27 per cent could not subtract £1.80 from £5.00 . |
| 14 | He added that Russia could not secure control of the air . |
| 15 | these would soon be extinct if zoos could not offer protection to animals in the same situation . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He wanted talented members of the civil service to take temporary appointments in the police , but though agreeing in principle , the government could not spare officers from revenue and judicial work . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She was his straight , his shining Emmie — he could not bear dishonesty in her . |
| 21 | An encounter with a French frigate delayed their final sailing so that they could not reach Sumatra in time . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We could not classify patients into Kraemer et al 's group A or B , since this grouping depends on relatives ' naevus status ; not all patients could bring first-degree relatives for examination , and their opinions of relatives ' naevus status were unreliable in those who could be examined . |
| 24 | We could not grow CTL to 1s6 from all B53-positive donors during the low transmission season for malaria but , as previous work suggested , detectable CTL to P. falciparum may be relatively short-lived in the absence of boosting , and low precursor frequencies may be common because of the very small numbers of hepatocytes infected by each sporozoite inoculum . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | While they could not prevent crises from occurring , there were often occasions when détente was made easier by discreet use of royal connections . |
| 27 | A STUDENT , Sarah Molyneux , hanged herself because she could not make friends during her first term at university , an inquest was told yesterday . |
| 28 | And his mother , anxious when she could not make contact with him , reported him missing nine days later . |
| 29 | In this way he was led to discover that the old laws could not make sense of these situations . |
| 30 | As hard as I tried , I could not make use of the staff , so I carried it , hobbling like a stage imbecile . |