Example sentences of "it could [not/n't] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He began talking about the state of the world , saying that he had n't even looked at a newspaper all day , when one was enjoying oneself one too easily forgot everything that was not on the personal level : and yet how desperately the economic situation was deteriorating everywhere week by week , it could not end well , it might lead to anything . |
| 2 | Ministers once again ducked the question of recognising Macedonia , even though Lord Carrington is believed to have said there was no practical reason why it could not go ahead . |
| 3 | All I had was a testimonial from Harold Fletcher of G.C.H.Q. , which was no testimonial in that it gave a potential employer absolutely no enlightenment because it could not do so : |
| 4 | It refused as it knew that it could not do so and survive at home . |
| 5 | In fact it could not do so . |
| 6 | It stated clearly that a flat rate charge could not cope with the scale of local authority expenditure and that it could not do so fairly . |
| 7 | The BDDA , as long ago as 1924 , foresaw this unhappy industrial crisis , and recognising that it was a question it could not handle alone , the National Institute was requested to deal with it . |
| 8 | Cable & Wireless Plc says it does not accept those claims made against it by its local partners in Digitel Telecommunications Philippines Inc ( CI No 2,171 ) and will defend against the allegations : ‘ We have received no official notification of this claim and we do not accept the validity of the allegations as we understand them from the press , and would expect to defend our position robustly , ’ it said ; Reuter reports from Manila that the local Cable & Wireless office says that it advised the company last September that it could not invest further in the country until a court case involving another local affiliate , Eastern Telecommunications Philippines Inc , was resolved — Eastern is locked in a legal battle with Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co and appealing a Supreme Court order denying it the right to operate an international gateway ; an industry source said Digitel is tapping another major local partner and British Telecommunications Plc as new shareholders in the company . |
| 9 | There were only a few realists in the ILP who appreciated that it could not function independently of the Labour Party . |
| 10 | In the analysis provided by Beveridge , education could keep the intelligence ‘ alive and growing ’ , but it could not affect either the causes of industrial fluctuation or prevent casual labour . |
| 11 | If a two-dimensional creature ate something it could not digest completely , it would have to bring up the remains the same way it swallowed them , because if there were a passage right through its body , it would divide the creature into two separate halves ; our two-dimensional being would fall apart ( Fig. 10.8 ) . |
| 12 | It could not come fast enough , though when we did arrive , as I said at the start , we were suddenly reluctant to go in : victims of a misplaced scepticism about the generosity of fellow climbers . |
| 13 | It could not happen today . |
| 14 | The point is , it could not happen here . |
| 15 | Oh , it could not happen again . |
| 16 | Yet by 1956 it was clear that it could not live safely either with the West Bank re-incorporated into Jordan or with a Palestinian state in the West Bank . |
| 17 | It could not act everywhere by itself . |
| 18 | Thus , it could not predict now the universe should behave . |
| 19 | We enjoyed a monopoly in this trade , but unfortunately for those successful in the boom , it could n't last forever . |
| 20 | We looked in the area of the fault and indeed , there was one needle that had a latch so stiff that it could n't open freely and also got stuck when you pushed it right back . |
| 21 | It could n't go forward , but reversed slowly down the lane , turned around in a field gateway and headed back to the main road . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It could n't have simply been his reading The Sheep-Pig to Class 1 . |
| 24 | The second point i is this issue about self containment , er Mr Davis accused me this morning of using some somewhat outlandish words , I think , erm , I did obviously refer to the er my vision of what a new settlement of this size proposed would be , and I I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't expect that with the right planning that it could n't have clearly local facilities , local school , library , etcetera , but it seemed to me quite clear that the scale proposed it would not have the higher order functions which as we 've heard earlier , Greater York has been defined based on York 's planning assumptions , clearly the major shopping , educational , and social facilities will continue to be provided in the city , and it will produce what is in effect dormitory settlement . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It could n't happen anyway , in the next financial year , it 'd have to be the following financial year . |
| 27 | The CEGB countered many of the fears expressed about Chernobyl with a simple phrase , ‘ It could n't happen here ’ . |
| 28 | It Could n't Happen Here — A European Perspective |
| 29 | It 's very New York that he is the choice for health guru ; it could n't happen anywhere else ; it 's the way the macrobiotic cookies crumble in this city that never sleeps . |
| 30 | However , elation at the beauty of the surroundings meant tandooried legs were far from my thoughts , and as we continued to the shapely Sgurr an Lochain , towering as it does over a tiny dark blue lochan , we agreed it could n't get much better . |