Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in understanding the old picture so vividly , he has prepared us to appreciate , and to understand , many things which we either could not previously have hoped to understand , or which we had been looking at with half-open eyes . |
| 2 | In the 1983 general election , nearly 8 million people voted for a political ticket ( Liberal/Social Democratic Party Alliance ) for which their parents could not previously have voted . |
| 3 | Where no error of the court is alleged , for example where new evidence becomes available after the hearing which could not previously have been discovered by reasonable diligence , then the judge or district judge has power to order a rehearing : Ord 37 , r 1(1) and form N 372 . |
| 4 | If this resulted from a positive proposal to shut down the unit it could not lawfully have been brought about unless the district health authority had first consulted the community health council . |
| 5 | That being so , there was no reason why the words of section 29(3) should not be given their natural meaning and so read , the power was clearly all-embracing , subject only to the qualification that the Home Secretary could not lawfully require broadcasters to broadcast matter involving them in a breach of their statutory duty . |
| 6 | In 1967 too the Warsaw Pact states declared that West Germany should recognise East Germany as the first step to meaningful détente but Brandt could not yet go so far : most West Germans still hoped for the reunification of Germany . |
| 7 | Whereas Nepmen were already flourishing in Kursk guberniia , they could not yet arise here in an area where as the Indian civil servant observed , rich and poor peasants alike were afflicted . |
| 8 | An amputee , she could not yet accustom herself to what was lost and gone , lost as her parents scattered in fragments over the Nevada desert . |
| 9 | It was sufficient for the king 's purpose to avoid excommunication , but Anselm could not yet return to England because ‘ not being willing [ as Eadmer reports ] in any way to violate his obedience to the pope ’ he could have no dealings with the king 's excommunicated ministers . |
| 10 | There were steps from one terrace to another but Susan could not yet see where they would lead in the end . |
| 11 | So she sent them on immediately , longing to know what they contained and never finding out , but supposing that so long as they did keep coming the worst could not yet have happened . |
| 12 | She saw a haunted house , a superstition she had perhaps used for her own account , and he saw something more human , a complex web of relationships , interlocking and interacting in a way he could not yet fathom , and in which people got caught up and destroyed . |
| 13 | But the paper admitted experts could not positively identify the voices . |
| 14 | Since the Act overrode the duty of confidence , it must also override inter partes orders made on that basis , otherwise the Bank could not properly discharge its public duty of supervision . |
| 15 | If two monads coincided in all their attributes , then they would be indistinguishable and one could not properly speak of " two " monads . |
| 16 | Frederica was put in mind , mutatis mutandis , starting with the intention , of Miss Havisham bidding the boy Pip to play , of the brewery yard where he had met Herbert Pocket , which ( the yard ) irked her , because she could not properly visualise it . |
| 17 | ( a ) Where the judge comes to the conclusion that the prosecution evidence , taken at its highest , is such that a jury properly directed could not properly convict upon it , it is his duty , upon a submission being made , to stop the case . |
| 18 | If the magistrate concludes , on the evidence before him , that the previous evidence is such that a jury properly directed could not properly convict upon it , then , on the principle stated in Reg. v. Galbraith [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 1039 , he should not commit . |
| 19 | She turned her head on the pillow , so he could not properly see her face , only the Greuze-like line of her cheek . |
| 20 | In such situations its decision should only be overturned for bias when it acted in such a way prior to its decision that it could not properly have exercised its discretion , taking due account of its interest in the proceedings . |
| 21 | and we , we would ask of that , but the next point and erm , is this my Lord erm at the moment erm the negotiations are erm proceeding in relation to the house , about which we have heard evidence , er , we could not properly buy it until it had been investigated by the court of protection and there was approval of that , and er it will be necessary for er consideration to be given as to how it should be purchased , in practical terms , firstly your Lordship has erm awarded a figure of seventy one thousand pounds , then there is the eighty thousand pounds on the existing house which takes one up to a hundred and fifty or thereabouts , and one sees that the special damages and interest thereon comes to something over fifty two thousand pounds to which these er parents will be entitled in the normal way , and if they were to apply , they might do and apply , that would go a long way to purchasing it and the court of protection , if it approved that might take the view that it would be fair to take something out of the notional aspect of damages for loss of earnings , because after all the plaintiff would have spent his earnings for housing and so on in the future , that , that is the sort of problems that now have to be tackled er what , what we would respect and suggest is er simply that there is liberty to apply erm . |
| 22 | You could not properly take account of my experience of separatism without acknowledging my feelings of being swept away by this sort of fervour . |
| 23 | The United States could not properly insist on " a blank check " . |
| 24 | It provides for a partial abolition of the rule " volenti non fit injuria " , without which ss 2(1) and 2(2) could not properly operate . |
| 25 | What they wanted to provide very rarely brought expenditure close to this ceiling , so they had little problem in deciding whether the project could or could not cost-effectively support a client ( see Chapter Six for further details of the cost of care ) . |
| 26 | As early as the 1880s , it was found that the Commons could not adequately examine and comment on the estimates . |
| 27 | This type of committee was modelled on the Select Committee on Nationalized Industries which had been set up in 1955 because it was felt that Parliament could not adequately control the range of corporations it had created . |
| 28 | The demonstrations were indeed provoked and begun with M16 and CIA money — no one knows how much was spent — but money alone could not adequately explain the way in which the protests rushed so fast through the city . |
| 29 | Their own educational socialization primarily through classics could not adequately have equipped them for the task of the " total " administration of a national culture . |
| 30 | But it would be the tritest form of reductionism to assume that Eliot , because he could not adequately deal with female sexuality , was therefore homosexual . |