Example sentences of "could not [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pete was in her form at school and whenever she looked at him little quivers she could not identify started deep inside her . |
| 2 | ‘ I was struck by two things — the refusal of battered victims to give in to despair , those who could not speak gave me a thumbs up , and the insistence of sorrowing parents and girlfriends that ‘ we 'll never let them win ’ , ’ he said . |
| 3 | This Imperial Manifesto stated that the people of Russia were now allowed freedoms of speech , conscience and assembly ; trade unions were to be legalized ; individuals could not go to jail without having a trial ; the people were now allowed to elect a new parliament called the Duma , which would advise the Tsar and approve new laws . |
| 4 | They trusted her for it ; an outlier psion could not go running to Them and reveal who hired her and for what reason . |
| 5 | However , often the best way of challenging a dysfunctional attitude is to test out the validity of the attitude , for example a client who believed he could not stand going to a party might be invited to test this belief out by going , for at least part of the time . |
| 6 | It therefore recommended that the WEA should continue as a teaching as well as an organising body , while suggesting that some increase in financial contributions from voluntary sources ‘ would materially help to preserve its independence and its status as a voluntary body ’ — a hint that the WEA could not expect to rely too heavily on government or local authority aid and that its members and friends must continue to dig deep into their pockets . |
| 7 | Also , can he confirm that a separatist , socialist , nationalist Scotland could not expect to enjoy all those oil revenues ? |
| 8 | The immigration appeal tribunal said the onus was on an applicant to bring himself within the specific immigration rule , and if he was unable or unwilling to do so he could not expect to succeed . |
| 9 | Other universities could not expect to fare so well in operating ‘ create income ’ programmes , and within certain institutions some departments are in favourable positions to offer lucrative services such as computing . |
| 10 | On 16 September 1938 Lipski reported to Warsaw that Göring had said that without Poland Danzig could not expect to survive on trade from East Prussia . |
| 11 | In his book , Operational Review , Ken Impey , former head of internal audit at Reed International , sets out the typical broad headings under which an organisation could classify its different risks : ‘ disastrous ’ ( threatening damage which it could not expect to survive ) , ‘ seriously damaging ’ ( materially weakening it but from which it could expect to recover ) and ‘ unlikely to be material ’ . |
| 12 | Most of them were used to paying regular visits to the friendly neighbourhood pawnbroker , but on the objects they brought to him they could not expect to raise any great sums . |
| 13 | To reach such a target audience we probably need , at the minimum , ( a ) about two pages of description by the authors of each unit , telling the user how to load the program , how to drive it , and its limitations both educationally and technically this information could be included on the disc or tape that loads the program ( b ) some incentive to the programmer to document the program to this level , perhaps through its resulting acceptance into a ‘ library ’ ( c ) assurance from those receiving the program that they will be prepared to deal with the problems that such draft programs impose — this implies that they must be fairly competent users of their computer system : they could not expect to get software support from the author , who is likely to be another teacher whose time is fully occupied ( d ) some financial and organizational support for the distribution of programs , even if only on a cooperative basis ( e ) that users of such programs should undertake to report to the authors ( and to the library ? ) on the usefulness of each program received , and if they wish , to make recommendations for improvement . |
| 14 | Just as the poor could not expect to get something for nothing , so the rich did not expect to get nothing for something . |
| 15 | The absence of all but a handful of examples in the biographical sources of this method of obtaining mevleviyets leads to the inference that someone obtaining a mevleviyet by this route could not expect to get much further in the hierarchy ; and indeed the provision itself , while not prohibiting the practice , does remove one of the principal prerogatives of the holders of mevleviyets . |
| 16 | I really could not expect to pursue the matter if I wished to continue my training . |
| 17 | One great comber filled the canoe before she shook free from the cascading crests ; now they could not expect to make much headway and had to fight even harder to avoid broaching-to . |
| 18 | Even with the optimism of the participants they could not expect to solve such a problem in four days . |
| 19 | It might seem to us somewhat peculiar , but we could not presume to challenge his belief — especially if his background , his education . |
| 20 | The writing was on the wall last year when the Government said it could not continue funding . |
| 21 | there were pressures coming on the company which would mean that we could not continue to do that |
| 22 | The SDP leader Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson had declared that his party could not continue to participate in the previous PP-SDP-PA centre-left coalition arrangement without a clear consensus on two key policy issues : Iceland 's position in EFTA negotiations with the European Communities ( EC ) , in which he had personally played a leading role as Foreign Minister , and a proposed US$1,000 million project to build a new aluminium smelting plant south of Reykjavik . |
| 23 | Can the Secretary of State confirm that , notwithstanding the encouraging programme that he has just reported , Nuclear Electric 's directors could not continue to pay the £1 million per day that it costs to continue the Sizewell B construction project if they were not covered by a letter of comfort from the Treasury , without which the company would be technically insolvent ? |
| 24 | Instead of dying by the age of about 40 , more were living to an age at which they could not continue to work and had to be supported . |
| 25 | He could not continue to look her in the face . |
| 26 | Mogae also warned that Botswana could not continue to depend on diamond exports . |
| 27 | In April 1990 , B. & C. was told that Atlantic could not continue to trade without massive further support . |
| 28 | Furthermore W. 's foster parents indicated at about this time that if W. were discharged they could not continue to offer her a home . |
| 29 | Representatives of the NAC met the Guild Council on 21 October and made it quite clear that the NAC could not continue to recognize the Guild as the youth section of the Party if it retained sympathetic affiliation to the Young Communist International . |
| 30 | The 14 respondents ( 46% ) who could not decide included the 10 informants who said they sometimes read SF . |