Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of his Cartesianism , Malebranche could not go so far as to say that material objects were not really extended or in motion , but Pierre Bayle had argued that such restraint was unjustifiable . |
| 2 | Even Amabel could not go so far as to trouble Gemma . |
| 3 | We then asked him , if he could not go so far as to meet us in full , to introduce an empowering provision . |
| 4 | And he would see her again , certainly ; here , almost every day , and at the house , playing the piano for her ; but there they could not talk so much . |
| 5 | He found that personal exchanges with the French could not flow so freely : interruptions for translation disturbed the train of thought . |
| 6 | And if reason and experience could not settle so basic a question as this , how much less could they be relied upon to arbitrate on matters of faith ? |
| 7 | At first I could not devote so much time to the orchestra but by the early 1960s I was coming to a position where I was able to be with the orchestra a very great deal , working for eight or ten days at a time on concerts , records , and films . |
| 8 | But when I looked over those I had kept , I decided I could not do so . |
| 9 | President Christos Sartzetakis asked Mr Grivas to form a government after the main political parties would or could not do so . |
| 10 | But the chairman , Ewan Murray , said that he could not do so without permission from the AAA . |
| 11 | To her mistress it was understandable that she should never speak absolutely freely but it was intolerable that she could not do so to the last remaining member of her family , nor even to her husband . |
| 12 | That said , we have seen so many people in recent months who wanted to move but could not do so until they knew what was going to happen to their take-home income . ’ |
| 13 | All I had was a testimonial from Harold Fletcher of G.C.H.Q. , which was no testimonial in that it gave a potential employer absolutely no enlightenment because it could not do so : |
| 14 | However , they could not do so unless their account was settled in full . |
| 15 | It refused as it knew that it could not do so and survive at home . |
| 16 | Mark , aware of the problem , records that the reaction of the chief priests and Scribes was to look for some way to get rid of Jesus , but that they could not do so at that moment because Jesus was popular with the people . |
| 17 | Even if they had been willing to rely on relatives , they could not do so ( Anderson , 1977 ) . |
| 18 | Such men depended upon success for support : for while du Guesclin might play upon his Breton origin to gather a force ( or route ) around him , the English could not do so with the same ease , and therefore came to rely upon their reputations to draw men to their service . |
| 19 | Even in the Petitioners case , where less emphasis is placed upon status , the Court does not resort to treaty arguments and indeed could not do so , for there was no treaty right of petition . |
| 20 | However , whilst both the HPV16 sequence and the HSV octamer could readily compete for binding of this protein , the HPV6 sequence could not do so confirming that it does not bind the cervical protein with high affinity ( Figure 4 ) . |
| 21 | I could not do so honourably . |
| 22 | Beatrice Webb signed the Appeal , although as she recorded in her diary for 1889 , she was impressed by a reply she received from a woman who complained that her lodger could vote but she could not , and that while she could vote for her parish council and her local Poor Law Guardians , she could not do so for an MP . |
| 23 | In fact it could not do so . |
| 24 | It stated clearly that a flat rate charge could not cope with the scale of local authority expenditure and that it could not do so fairly . |
| 25 | If Hand could not do so for 65 theses , then tracing 550 authors of Scottish geology theses would have been even more daunting , and there would have been difficulties in selecting a statistically valid sub-set for a questionnaire . |
| 26 | Regrettably , some could not do so , the commonest reason being that ‘ Such records are not retained ’ ; or ‘ Our records are in a bit of a mess at the moment ’ . |
| 27 | Lothar having tried for three days to do the dividing , said he " could not do so because of his ignorance of the places involved " and so finally left that task to his father . |
| 28 | Their foot were not in the main Highlandmen — although they had some of these , from upland Perthshire and the Glens of Angus — and so could not travel so fast and far each day . |
| 29 | Pairs of RIC men were patrolling on each side of the wide thoroughfare and , though to Jacob they were of no more account than any other pedestrians , he realised that Deirdre could not feel so unconcerned . |
| 30 | But he could not feel so certain inside that Connon 's malady would respond to physical treatment . |