Example sentences of "could not [verb] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | This last project is an embarrassingly inappropriate tribute to a man who could not identify any plants , trees or birds that he saw on his journeys except by such vapid statements as ‘ big and little birds of all sorts ’ , ‘ trees very green ’ , and ‘ many trees very different from ours . ’ |
| 2 | But writing in 1987 , Fords could not identify any British university libraries conforming to the Atkinson mode . |
| 3 | And when she had thought sensation could not go any higher or wider or further , he touched her lightly and tenderly in the vulnerable V between her legs . |
| 4 | He could not talk any more . |
| 5 | It was held that the seller could not recover any of the price since the buyer was no longer the owner of either of the cars , the ownership having reverted to the seller on the resale . |
| 6 | But it has been long established ( Habakkuk 1953 , McKeown and Brown 1955 ) that medical knowledge of the time could not cure any important cause of death , could prevent only smallpox , and with a few exceptions remained impotent until the present century . |
| 7 | I expect we were about three miles out to sea by now , though I could not smell any salt , hear any gulls or see any boats . |
| 8 | It was such an utterly unexpected development that his mind could not register any immediate reaction beyond amazement . |
| 9 | In practice , children under the age of eight are rarely called as witnesses and judges still follow a 1958 House of Lords ruling that a jury could not attach any importance to the evidence of a child of five . |
| 10 | Members of the Congress could not hold any other public post , and there were sanctions against absenteeism . |
| 11 | He said he could not offer any explanation as to exactly what Mr McNeill meant by his remarks as that could prejudge his statements on Thursday . |
| 12 | I could not bear any imputation of disloyalty to my second husband . |
| 13 | She could not bear any form of contact with a man under any circumstances . |
| 14 | The head of the Bonn Chancellery , Rudolf Seiters , said the West German government had made it clear that it could not make any concessions regarding its embassies in other countries and that no East German would be turned away from any West German mission abroad . |
| 15 | She continued to attend the unit as an out-patient for more than six months , when the therapists felt they could not make any further progress . |
| 16 | But for making certain general platitudinous statements , [ senior prison administrators ] could not make any significant contribution in suggesting solutions to the chronic problems of prison management . |
| 17 | She was so relieved to hear this that she could not make any further self-sacrifice . |
| 18 | When examining the structure of local government and establishing the local government commission , one could not make any better start than the appointment of Sir John Banham as the chairman of the commission if one wants common sense , quality decision making and a tough-minded approach . |
| 19 | The furore erupted after Mr Bell said he could not make any of five dates offered for public debates by Teesside Poly chaplain Cathy Rowling . |
| 20 | After the talks , Hanan Ashrawi , the Palestinian spokeswoman , said there had been discussion of undisclosed new proposals , but the Palestinians could not make any final decisions without further consultations among themselves and with the Palestine Liberation Organisation in Tunis . |
| 21 | It rained that Summer and when you thought it could not rain any more , it rained again . |
| 22 | So , even if we had a precise account of adult human knowledge of inside , support , and behind , we could not equate any part of this with a cat 's or a chimp 's knowledge simply by jettisoning those parts of it influenced by our linguistic representations . |
| 23 | During the next three and a half years I often thought of this meal and of the amount I had to leave on my plate because I could not eat any more . |
| 24 | The axiom with which America confronted them was that a government so controlled could not govern any population not represented in that Parliament . |
| 25 | If it was all real to him it could not contain any factual inconsistencies . " |
| 26 | The integration cause and its stress upon a broad economic approach were also aided by the current pattern of international trade and by the limitations of the OEEC , which could not sponsor any forward movement without the consent of all its members . |
| 27 | The real owner , the mortgagor , could not convey any legal title because he had none ; and the legal owner , the mortgagee , could only convey a title subject to the mortgagor 's equity of redemption . |
| 28 | Either the locks were too big , or the key was too small , but she could not open any of the doors . |
| 29 | But the environment minister , Tom King , could not give any firm commitment to further government funds . |
| 30 | Our principal method for gathering the information about care programming which we report here was direct interviews with practitioners , but this could not give any indication of the applicability of our findings to other areas . |