Example sentences of "could not [vb infin] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | these would soon be extinct if zoos could not offer protection to animals in the same situation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There was more than one reason why I could not accompany Jean-Claude to America . |
| 4 | The children were away over Mothering Sunday ; they could not send cards to their mothers . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | Again in Johnston v Chamberlain ( 1933 ) 17 TC 706 , the taxpayer sought to argue that a payment from a discretionary trust could not give rise to income tax liability on the beneficiary as it was " only when the trustees choose to exercise their discretion by making the payment that the sum gets to the children at all " . |
| 7 | Manjiku was the creature who wanted to be a woman ; the beast that stole children for his own because he could not give birth to them himself . |
| 8 | At times , pressure on space meant we could not do justice to the work she did for us , but nevertheless she continued to keep up the high standards she set herself . |
| 9 | Mr Vernon admitted that he could not do justice to all the fund raising efforts of the year , but would nonetheless like to congratulate the organisers of the four local appeals in Lincolnshire , Filey , the Mersey area and Derbyshire who all reached and surpassed their targets in 1990 . |
| 10 | The issue , an ongoing source of tension , had been aggravated by remarks in July by Demiral on the eve of the inauguration of the Ataturk dam on July 25 , to the effect that Iraq and Syria could not lay claim to the water Turkey drew from the Euphrates and Tigris rivers . |
| 11 | I explained to the man that I could not carry cheese to my appointment but that I would be back another day . |
| 12 | The patient could not write non-words to dictation , spelled concrete nouns better than abstract nouns , and was poor at spelling function words . |
| 13 | Russia , self-proclaimed protector of the Balkan Slavs , could not permit Serbia to be overrun ; she , too , mobilized . |
| 14 | surveyor could not gain access to roof voids but concluded was in reasonable condition for its age . |
| 15 | The members of the commission could not gain entry to north Korea and could not observe the nature of elections there . |
| 16 | Thus the car did not belong to the customer who therefore could not transfer ownership to X. |
| 17 | Ferkhan also owned land near the village and complained that lack of electricity meant that he could not pump water to his field and , as a result , he had grown only twenty tons of melons compared to eighty before the war … |
| 18 | I find it extra-ordinary that the police could not get access to these files simply because it was 5.30 and the office was shut . |