Example sentences of "it could [not/n't] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NCDAD did not operate in Scotland , and it could not award degrees — working , as the NCTA had done , on the basis of a Deed of Trust , not a Charter . |
| 2 | It could not prevent conflict and the outbreak of armed clashes between England and France , but it meant that considerable efforts were made , on both sides , to avert disputes or to seek a speedy reconciliation . |
| 3 | Presumably on the basis that it could not involve James , she had asked him to join them for supper . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Britain was granted a specially lenient deal because Environment Minister Lord Caithness argued that it could not fit FGD in the required timescale , and that it had domestic high sulphur coal which it ‘ had to use ’ whereas other countries relied mainly on imported low sulphur coal . |
| 6 | The District 's Annual Report for 1959–60 said that , although the WEA 's national officers were still trying to achieve this increased grant , the Eastern had exceptionally-strong claims and accordingly ‘ we are now pressing for special consideration ’ : in other words , Jacques was arguing with the Ministry that , even if it could not afford 90% grant to the WEA as a whole , could this not be allowed to the Eastern District individually ? |
| 7 | It could not require installation of control devices on vehicles sold in the county until a satisfactory device was available — and no such device was available . |
| 8 | Thus the silk industry of Valencia , frequently noted by travellers as one of the most promising features of the economy , apart from a period of prosperity between 1835 and 1852 , remained relatively stagnant throughout the nineteenth century ; in the late eighteenth century a technically advanced industry , in the nineteenth it could not keep pace with Lyons . |
| 9 | On Jan. 23 Sikh militants ambushed Joshi 's cavalcade near the town of Jullunder in Punjab , killing five people , after the BJP rejected a last-minute appeal by the government to call off the march on the grounds that it could not guarantee protection against attacks by Sikh and Kashmiri militants . |
| 10 | It could not get hold of me and stifle me ; for it would employ only my hands and a certain section of my knowledge ; the rest of me would be free : after office hours my escape would be absolute ; and then the holidays would enable me , according to my powers and my wishes , to live another life as different as that of Jekyll from that of Hyde . |
| 11 | By 1938 the Unemployment Insurance Statutory Committee ad-mitted that it could not increase dependants ' benefits without pushing the level of unemployment benefit for the family man above the level of many workers earnings . |
| 12 | but many of those who were ready to benefit from it could not read Latin , which had been the normal basis for scholarly interchange . |
| 13 | Mr Michael Grade , the channel 's chief executive , yesterday called on the Government to explain why it could not trust ITC appointments . |
| 14 | It is also fair to suggest that the Labour Party benefited from the rising unemployment of the 1920s for it claimed , successfully in the 1920s , that although it could not solve unemployment , which was a product of a capitalist society , it would at least ensure that the unemployed were guaranteed a level of benefits which would ensure healthy life . |
| 15 | Last week the Northern Ireland Court Service said it could n't comment Lord Justice Murray 's retirement . |
| 16 | It could n't said Gwendoline pretending to examine it very closely , those strings have been cut Mary Lou someone 's been playing a trick on you , what a shame . |