Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [adv] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1967 too the Warsaw Pact states declared that West Germany should recognise East Germany as the first step to meaningful détente but Brandt could not yet go so far : most West Germans still hoped for the reunification of Germany . |
| 2 | Whereas Nepmen were already flourishing in Kursk guberniia , they could not yet arise here in an area where as the Indian civil servant observed , rich and poor peasants alike were afflicted . |
| 3 | There were steps from one terrace to another but Susan could not yet see where they would lead in the end . |
| 4 | That was another thing which made Mahmoud uneasy , for modern and emancipated though he was , he could not completely shake off the attitudes and sexual constraints of the old , Islamic society . |
| 5 | The one thing he could not have borne , the one thing he could not completely shut out from the fevered fringes of his mind , was the thought of the boy 's chill assessment of his father 's achievement and his friend 's . |
| 6 | They maintain that through insider dealing the firm can convey information it could not feasibly announce publicly because an announcement would : ( 1 ) destroy the value of the information , ( 2 ) be too expensive , ( 3 ) not be believable , and ( 4 ) ( owing to uncertainty of information ) expose the firm to liability because it was found after the fact to be incorrect . |
| 7 | But there was so much of that past now that he could not easily do so : when in 1959 there were rumours that the original manuscripts of The Waste Land had been found ( false rumours , as it turned out ) the news , according to an acquaintance , " depressed him " . |
| 8 | Lawrence has given us something we could not easily get otherwise : he has given us thought spoken as language . |
| 9 | Fifa officials could not immediately say how many players would benefit from the yellow-card amnesty , but confirmed that at least three players would be suspended for one World Cup match after receiving red cards . |
| 10 | Fifa officials could not immediately say how many players would benefit from the yellow-card amnesty , but confirmed that at least three players would be suspended for one World Cup match after receiving red cards . |
| 11 | But a king could not simply sit back and wait for people to come to him . |
| 12 | She and Johnny could not simply pick up where they had left off . |
| 13 | Alexandra felt smooth and neat and tight and regretful that , with Lyddy to keep a stern eye on standards , she could not secretly leave off her stays when the weather got warmer as she did occasionally at Bewick . |
| 14 | Caspar was shouting to her not to struggle , because it would only mean she would sink quicker , but Fenella was struggling fiercely , because she could not just give in . |
| 15 | She could not even scream now . |
| 16 | Far from being a challenger for power , it could not even hold on to its old citadels . |
| 17 | They asked me personal questions that I could not even repeat here today . |
| 18 | It could not even make up its mind . |
| 19 | Utterly out of control now , these could not even fire back , for their port-side cannon could not be brought to bear . |
| 20 | She heard the sounds of the battle ; she could not even croak out a song to him , for her tongue clove to her palate as if , while her baby drank , she were dying of thirst . |
| 21 | I could not even see as far as the mouth of the burn . |
| 22 | How true , for Leicester could not even take yesterday 's three points for granted until the end . |
| 23 | She could not even say so . |
| 24 | She could not even imagine how it would end . ’ |
| 25 | Suddenly , lost in misery , she could not even remember why . |
| 26 | She could not even remember exactly how Tristram had phrased his reference to the document he meant to send to Beatrix . |
| 27 | Please , let it not be some man she had slept with and now could not even remember ever having seen before in her life . |
| 28 | We , myself and Bill , although we have been doing the same thing for more than 20 years , could not really work together . |
| 29 | There was no doubt that the Liberals would press on with this timetable , and little doubt that the Labour and Irish MPs would support them ; Unionists could not therefore stop Home Rule becoming law . |
| 30 | In fact , the 1907 Hague Conventions were not formally applicable to that conflict , because several of the belligerents were not party to them , and under the so-called ‘ general participation clause ’ the Hague Conventions could not therefore apply even between those who were parties . |