Example sentences of "or could not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas similar provisions in other countries were mainly designed to provide facilities which could or could not be used , the Irish ones were to be compulsory and there was to be no choice of doctor . |
| 2 | Of the other 13 POWs , six were given nothing , five either died at that time or could not be traced , and two refused to submit to means testing . |
| 3 | President Christos Sartzetakis asked Mr Grivas to form a government after the main political parties would or could not do so . |
| 4 | He would not tell me , or could not explain . |
| 5 | And perhaps , occasionally , he was frustrated by what he could or could not achieve . |
| 6 | Occasionally , Mr Landor would accuse her of stealing from him when he had mislaid a silver spoon or could not find a precious paperknife , but she had always treated these accusations with the contempt they deserved . |
| 7 | Would there have to be one designer , or could not the world have been designed by several working together ? |
| 8 | Second , it was in the economic interests of the colonial ( and home ) administrations to persuade or force the cultivator to grow produce for the market either because it increased the cultivator 's taxability and therefore he/she could contribute to the infrastructural administrative and policing costs of the colony ; or , where settlers would or could not do the job , it would provide a source of cheap food for the mining workers , particularly in southern Africa . |
| 9 | Nothing had done more to encourage this belief than the Church with its ecclesiastical calendar and regulations concerning what could or could not be done on specific days . |
| 10 | In three cases the client did not like , or could not accept , the support worker . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Take one item from each of your lists and explain why these items could , or could not , be sold through franchising . |
| 13 | With luck the senior Girl would tell them precisely what they could or could not do , and when they had to return to the Club . |
| 14 | He said some people who found it difficult to pay for relatives ' funerals — due to redundancy or mortgage payments were offered payment by monthly instalments while others who would not or could not pay were pursued to the small claims court . |
| 15 | And my reaction to this fear , my way of combating it , was to escape into a world of no fear , a world where there were complete men , good-looking , strong , active , a world of erotic fearlessness where the whole man had free rein , the whole man whom I was convinced I would not or could not become . |
| 16 | It was no longer just that she did not like birds or could not bear to touch them — she could have coped with that , as it would not have intruded greatly on her everyday life . |
| 17 | The Panel said that the conversations imparted material new information which had not been made public or could not be made public . |
| 18 | Always , though , whether immediately or eventually , she would acquiesce , and I resented her acquiescence , not only because of its consequences for myself , but because I did n't understand why she , an adult , would not or could not stand up to him . |
| 19 | Although it was hardly disputable that a West German contribution to NATO would be invaluable , especially as the other European members did not wish to , or could not , meet the new levels of requirement set by the United States , the American demand caused consternation and an agonising evaluation of its consequences in the capitals of Europe , and nowhere more so than in Paris . |
| 20 | The outsiders either would not or could not resort to those tactics which were thought to have assisted the establishment of the three large criminal practices characterised by an ‘ outside ’ solicitor as ‘ The Barons ’ ( Thomas and Mungham 1976 ; Smith and Thomas 1978 ) . |
| 21 | On the slopes of Everest there are believed to be at least a dozen bodies of climbers who could not get to the top , or could not get down again . |
| 22 | In practice agents do not , or even perhaps could not , have complete and consistent preferences , partly because what they want is often affected by what they believe , and they do not , or could not , have perfect information . |
| 23 | A few nurses also commented that patients would wear them when the ulcer was healed , were too old and too frail to get the hosiery on , refused to wear it or could not tolerate it . |
| 24 | If they would not or could not , at the request of a Government sympathetic to them and their aspirations , give sufficient support to the economic policy advocated by that Government in the general interest , it could not with confidence be supposed that trade union representatives on the boards of companies would give sufficient support to the policies of those companies . |
| 25 | It is all too clear from many published accounts of ventures in educational innovation that they have frequently been less successful than was hoped simply because the necessary consequences in terms of processes and support had not ( or could not have ) been foreseen . |
| 26 | I have not felt it necessary to examine the detailed facts of all the earlier decisions or to consider whether the decisions themselves could or could not be supported . |
| 27 | For example : the traditional notation regarding ‘ on board ’ loading was replaced by a ‘ taking in charge ’ statement ; the traditional prohibition against transhipment was eliminated , because transhipment was of the essence in combined transport ; since the transport commonly originated and finished inland , the terms ‘ place of receipt ’ and ‘ place of delivery ’ were inserted in separate boxes , either replacing the traditional ‘ port of loading ’ and ‘ port of discharge ’ or joining them as additional specifications ; and since often times the name of the vessel was not known or could not be established with certainty at the time of issuance , the box for the vessel 's name was modified to refer to an ‘ intended vessel . ’ |
| 28 | He argued that the physical capabilities of the plant determined where it could or could not live , and studied the effects of various environmental factors , especially water , in determining the prevailing vegetation . |
| 29 | He would not or could not elaborate on his news until he had washed , twisting hand within hand as though he would scrub off his own defiled skin along with the blood . |
| 30 | Moreover , in 1973 one deputy minister of foreign trade described the deficiencies in Soviet marketing as follows : ‘ While we were only beginning to understand that before entering the marketplace we had to study it , determining which machinery could or could not be supplied where , as well as how to organise the work involved , capitalist firms had already created a whole science to deal with the question , coordinating production , advertising and commercial activity into a single discipline ’ ( N. Smeliakov , Novy mir , 12 ( Dec. ) 1973 , 216–17 ) . |