Example sentences of "could not [verb] [noun sg] in " 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 | She was his straight , his shining Emmie — he could not bear dishonesty in her . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Policy discontinuity frustrated industrialists and investors who wished to engage in forward planning : they could not anticipate stability in government programs . |
| 7 | Oxford Regional Health Authority explained why it went back on the original decision saying , ’ We understood that the law said quite clearly the health authority could not provide treatment in private homes . |
| 8 | But Maher could not ride Craganour in the Derby as he had been claimed for Lord Rosebery 's Prue , and the favourite was partnered by the American jockey Johnny Reiff . |
| 9 | His argument was that the Church of Ireland was ‘ poisoned by ecumenism ’ and as such he , as a Free Presbyterian , could not take part in fund-raising on its behalf . |
| 10 | These groups might enter into semi-permanent contracts with academics who had similar interests , and develop rules about who could and could not take part in a ‘ course ’ in a particular ‘ subject ’ and how that ‘ course ’ should be conducted . |
| 11 | Morality could not take precedence in the determination of foreign policy because of structural differences between the setting for individual behaviour and the setting for international behaviour . |
| 12 | He could not take refuge in a timely snooze . |
| 13 | Assistant recorder Martin Axtell imposed a suspended possession order , saying Mrs Carruthers could not play music in her flat for two years or she would be evicted . |
| 14 | In Re Peachdart ( 1983 Ch.D. ) the sellers of leather which the buyers then made into handbags could reserve title in the leather which they supplied but could not reserve title in the handbags which were newly created goods . |
| 15 | Something that was not form , but was only matter , could not become general in this way and could not answer to the generality of the concepts with which we think . |
| 16 | In this state the electron could not radiate energy in the form of electromagnetic waves because there would be no lower energy state for it to go to . |
| 17 | A reserve of justice remained with the King , and so those who could not get relief in the King 's ordinary courts might , with some hope of success , petition the King and his Council for redress , if not as a matter of right at least as a favour . |