Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In reply , Sir Derek said that though he could not speak for other directors , ‘ my resignation has been available to the board from the day all this started . |
| 2 | But Rab could not speak for laughing . |
| 3 | Cynthia could not speak for the sobs that now came from her throat . |
| 4 | We could not go for a walk that afternoon . |
| 5 | Coniston School principal Madeleine Harvey hit back yesterday at claims that her teachers could not cater for four-year-old Nicholas . |
| 6 | Whatever the truth of this , the DCSL reports that the IS project topics imposed unprecedented demands upon the local branch of the county library , which simply could not cater for their requirements . |
| 7 | Finally , we should recognize that ours is not the only computer-using community which has felt constrained by industry standard database packages and markup languages which simply could not cater for our dates , currency measures , and time scales . |
| 8 | They were men of such unyielding integrity ( they would only admit to a fault in order to show how it might be overcome ) that the wavering personality of a child could not rest for long against those monumental shoulders . |
| 9 | I left China feeling that the state of affairs could not continue for much longer without serious public disorder , possibly started by the students . |
| 10 | The disagreement between the State and Defense departments could not continue for much longer and President Truman , in the light of representations from the allies and bearing in mind the restless attitude developing in Japan , determined to proceed . |
| 11 | Implicit in the rhetoric of those who campaigned for stiffer age-of-consent legislation ( and the campaign went on into the 1930s to raise it above 16 , even to 21 ) was the assumption that young working-class girls were ignorant and defenceless and could not decide for themselves . |
| 12 | The Old Testament kings had been initiated with unction ; and in any case the Carolingians , unlike their Merovingian predecessors amongst the Franks , could not depend for their sacrality upon a long royal genealogy stretching back into the past . |
| 13 | She could not hope for news every day … . |
| 14 | I could not sleep for sheer fatigue . |
| 15 | He could not sleep for two days before Billy 's first night , on 1 May 1974 , and he was unable to eat during the day of the opening show , which was attended by Princess Margaret and the Queen Mother . |
| 16 | His mouth was too dry to speak but he could not reach for the water now . |
| 17 | She could not answer for them . |
| 18 | Taken by surprise , she could not answer for a moment and than said angrily , ‘ If you knew , why did n't you say something before ? ’ |
| 19 | Indeed , I remember warning her , half in joke , half in earnest , that I could not answer for the new Government lasting more than six weeks . |
| 20 | I began to realise that life like this could not last for ever and so I asked to go back to the Cheshire Home for a holiday . |
| 21 | So profitable and powerful a monopoly , however efficiently administered , could not last for long . |
| 22 | Since the composition of the government in parliamentary systems is determined by the composition of the legislature , such a situation could not last for long . |
| 23 | That immunity could not last for ever , he thought , watching her rise to absolutely steady feet after her fourth glass of sherry . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , some of the patients could not return for frequent follow up visits to our clinic because of distance and also health care costs and were therefore referred back with our treatment plan to their own physicians . |
| 25 | Mr Brodie said : ‘ We are not interested in the money because , however much it was , it could not compensate for losing Emma and the way it happened . |
| 26 | These honours could not compensate for the misery of his diocesan life . |
| 27 | For a while it proved a highly successful combination , but eventually it became apparent that the Japanese spirit could not compensate for inferiority in industrial strength and natural resources in dispelling any sense of national insecurity . |
| 28 | The form used was complicated but could not compensate for the deficiencies of information about a population that was still highly mobile and still undergoing the stresses of war . |
| 29 | Although the syntactic filter could no doubt be improved , it probably could not compensate for a 20,000 word lexicon and/or poorer acoustic-phonetic discrimination . |
| 30 | Although it made him uneasy , he could not tell for some moments what it was . |