Example sentences of "could not [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could not identify all such workers as complete records have not survived and instead used the closest approximations possible — namely , records incorporating home address of all those ( more than 17000 ) attending the medical centre at the Sullom Voe oil terminal in Shetland during its construction phase ( believed to represent a high proportion of all but short stay workers ) ; 3500 construction workers at the Flotta oil terminal in Orkney ( incomplete data ) ; and more than 10000 offshore workers , being all those who obtained an offshore survival certificate ( required for such work ) in Scotland in the period from June 1976 ( the earliest date for which records have not been destroyed ) to 1980 . |
| 2 | This last project is an embarrassingly inappropriate tribute to a man who could not identify any plants , trees or birds that he saw on his journeys except by such vapid statements as ‘ big and little birds of all sorts ’ , ‘ trees very green ’ , and ‘ many trees very different from ours . ’ |
| 3 | But writing in 1987 , Fords could not identify any British university libraries conforming to the Atkinson mode . |
| 4 | Moreover , since it came to be accepted by many schools that a pupil could not study these separate subjects at A level unless he or she had already studied them at O level ( although in the 1950s it had been intended that O levels should be ‘ bypassed ’ by those who would study a subject at A level ) the domination of the university faculties began when a pupil was 14 . |
| 5 | For the first time in my life I could not confess all my sins to the priest . |
| 6 | But I could not row more grain without causing an even worse grazing crisis from April to July when three acres are laid up for hay . |
| 7 | And when she had thought sensation could not go any higher or wider or further , he touched her lightly and tenderly in the vulnerable V between her legs . |
| 8 | He could not talk any more . |
| 9 | It is true that Paul could not preach that freedom without fairly being asked how the theology works out in practice , especially where the inequalities of society , at least on the surface of things , remain unchanged . |
| 10 | The hall fell totally silent , and John Gummer was distinctly heard to say that he could not stand much more of it . |
| 11 | I stuck it out for about an hour , and then could not stand another minute . |
| 12 | I could not stand another hour of the man himself or his bleating sheep of a wife , ’ she said tartly . |
| 13 | The social sciences could not satisfy either of these criteria . |
| 14 | It was held that the seller could not recover any of the price since the buyer was no longer the owner of either of the cars , the ownership having reverted to the seller on the resale . |
| 15 | C might ignore the agreement , take coercive action and promote a conflict between itself and A and B. C can not be compelled to accept the terms of the treaty between A and B ; if C acts contrary to the treaty , A and B can not make that the basis of a claim against C. Equally , if the treaty between A and B was in C's interest , C could not enforce that interest through legal proceedings unless it was in fact more than an interest , and amounted to a legally protected right . |
| 16 | But it has been long established ( Habakkuk 1953 , McKeown and Brown 1955 ) that medical knowledge of the time could not cure any important cause of death , could prevent only smallpox , and with a few exceptions remained impotent until the present century . |
| 17 | I expect we were about three miles out to sea by now , though I could not smell any salt , hear any gulls or see any boats . |
| 18 | Tears would not bring him back , but somehow her mind could not register that , and she could not stop the slow salt trickle from creeping down her cheeks . |
| 19 | It was such an utterly unexpected development that his mind could not register any immediate reaction beyond amazement . |
| 20 | They could not secure enough cash quickly and despite several last ditch attempts , went into receivership . |
| 21 | In practice , children under the age of eight are rarely called as witnesses and judges still follow a 1958 House of Lords ruling that a jury could not attach any importance to the evidence of a child of five . |
| 22 | For the vast majority of these people , unemployment is a direct consequence of a government who only cares about those who have , and could not care less about those who have not . |
| 23 | She had a growing conviction that conventional psychology could not hold all the answers — and that there was a missing link which meant that , very often , people 's problems remained unsolved . |
| 24 | It could not hold half the papers that were in my cupboard . ’ |
| 25 | Members of the Congress could not hold any other public post , and there were sanctions against absenteeism . |
| 26 | But the cylinders were so small they could not hold more than a minute of material . |
| 27 | Cup-tie , with Bailey playing for the well-known London amateur side , Walthamstow Avenue , who switched the replay to Stamford Bridge because their home ground could not hold more than a fraction of the spectators who wanted to attend . |
| 28 | He said he could not offer any explanation as to exactly what Mr McNeill meant by his remarks as that could prejudge his statements on Thursday . |
| 29 | Robert could not stop these thoughts . |
| 30 | She could not sleep that night . |