Example sentences of "[verb] it could [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A rising could be put down ; even though the BNA might dissolve into guerrilla bands it could not hope to take over the country . |
| 2 | NEC is telling the Japanese press it could n't agree with SGI on either price or technical issues . |
| 3 | Some large firms have found it impossible to match competitors ' spending : Jaguar found it could not afford the costs of developing the next generation of engines and models and was forced to sell out to Ford in 1989 for £1.6 billion . |
| 4 | Which basically found it could n't make a railway service run and dropped it . |
| 5 | Then Wim went off and tagged IBM and when IBM and HP agreed to support a common position Sun eventually found it could n't resist , especially with Novell nudging it on . |
| 6 | Many women realized that our trade union did n't have the support of the management and believed it could n't resolve any of our problems . |
| 7 | And in the news business it is generally reckoned it could n't have gone to a nicer bloke . |
| 8 | Without it , the company says it could n't compete with businesses overseas . |
| 9 | IBM Corp held detailed salary discussions with two other people , one of them Lawrence Bossidy of AlliedSignal Inc before it hired Louis Gerstner as chairman and chief executive , the Wall Street Journal reckons : it says it could n't get the name of the other candidate . |
| 10 | Joseph Payne , an Alex Brown & Sons would let loose a huge supply of stock onto the market and fund managers would n't stand for it — a rather naive statement since the non-executive directors would be in breach of their fiduciary duty if they allowed IBM to pay a dividend they judged it could not afford . |
| 11 | A 1956 collector 's item — the first polythene road cone , a dud one so long and thin it could n't stay still and a Korean cone found floating in Swanage harbour . |
| 12 | When it became known that the Government had said it could not afford to honour Nelson 's wishes and help her out , the tradesmen to whom she still owed money closed in . |
| 13 | You 'd have thought it could n't go wrong , would n't you ? |
| 14 | Sharpe reckoned it could not take the enemy longer than an hour to overrun the fragile line of Dutch-Belgian troops , and in one further hour they could have fortified the crossroads to make them impassable to the British . |
| 15 | I 've never taken it seriously before , because I 've known it could n't happen . |
| 16 | And the revenue got mean and decided it could n't afford the time of serving officers and it left pre-retirement council and other bodies with a gap to fill er the only other people who are er professional if you like , who could fill it , would be accountants and they were n't available . |
| 17 | One , Federal Express just decided it would n't do it any more , and other other one Elan , a couple of weeks ago , or last week or whatever it was , decided it could n't afford to do it any more . |
| 18 | Then Wim went off and tagged IBM and when IBM and Hewlett agreed to support a common position Sun decided it could n't resist , especially with Novell Inc nudging it on . |
| 19 | In its need to show a determination to repatriate boat people , the Government decided it could not wait to send the volunteers home first . |
| 20 | O&Y 's liquidity crisis meant it could not repay the holders when they refused to roll over the commercial paper . |
| 21 | I once met a social worker , this was years ago , I I was gon na say , this could n't happen today , but it probably could , erm , one hopes it could n't happen today , but it probably would happen today , too . |
| 22 | He neither went towards her nor withdrew and she saw it could not go on like that . |
| 23 | If the school felt it could not cope with Balbinder then maybe he would be better in a more sympathetic environment . |
| 24 | The association felt it could not undertake this work but would seek the help of the local Scouts . |
| 25 | The association felt it could not undertake this work but would seek the help of the local Scouts . |
| 26 | Sainsbury 's felt it could not justify investment at either of these locations and instead surprised everyone by buying land at Parc Menai which has already got planning consent for a hotel and conference centre . |
| 27 | It felt it could not oppose the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty brokered by the United States in March 1979 , but at the same time viewed it with ambivalence . |
| 28 | According to Pat Hutchinson of Luton Consumer Services , Turbosoft was very successful at first but as the firm grew it could n't cope with the volume of orders received — Trading Standards have had over 400 complaints to date , and they 're still coming in ! |
| 29 | You knew it could n't last . |
| 30 | I knew it could n't work . |