Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] could not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked hard at Flavia who as so often could not tell whether Andrée was serious or contemptuous or amused . |
| 2 | Ropes were then put on to keep it there but these alone certainly could not have restrained a 5-ton ( 5.08 tonnes ) elephant if it had taken it into its head to dismount during the journey . |
| 3 | Having said that , the 12 who played out there could not have done more . |
| 4 | Each contributed much , but they did not often speak to each other , and indeed almost literally could not speak to each other . |
| 5 | The defendants were on risk that as a result of the bargain they had struck the plaintiff would not or indeed possibly could not comply with his existing obligations without further finance . |
| 6 | The system has proved to be flexible thus enabling enhancements to be made — enhancements which quite often could not have been thought of at the initial design stage , since the concept of an integrated payroll and personnel function was very much new ground . |
| 7 | The nature of the correlations between O isotope ratios and Sr , Nd and Pb isotope ratios is not consistent with assimilation , and the correlation between O and Nd isotope ratios almost certainly could not result from weathering . |