Example sentences of "could not [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That being so , there was no reason why the words of section 29(3) should not be given their natural meaning and so read , the power was clearly all-embracing , subject only to the qualification that the Home Secretary could not lawfully require broadcasters to broadcast matter involving them in a breach of their statutory duty . |
| 2 | You could not properly take account of my experience of separatism without acknowledging my feelings of being swept away by this sort of fervour . |
| 3 | Outside Senegal and the Ivory Coast there was very little press to speak of in the pre-independence period : illiteracy was even higher than in the British territories , and the small , educated élite could not easily sustain newspapers . |
| 4 | This man could not easily imagine life without hot water , at least not for people like himself and Alice . |
| 5 | And if a developer could not immediately secure rent from premises it builds at the dock , the Private Finance Initiative would provide it in the short-term , until the property market improves . |
| 6 | These political charges , such as opposing taxes to Caesar and inciting people to revolt , meant that Pilate could not simply ignore Jesus . |
| 7 | A strategic site if it comes forward would be away from the main urban areas and would only be available for developments that could not otherwise take place on the I five allocations . |
| 8 | At Altnagelvin Hospital , Londonderry , nursing staff said they could not ethically give information , but details eventually were given after correspondence with the Western Board ; |
| 9 | She had her difficulties , too , or she would have been with him by this ; but she was as much the prisoner of circumstances as he , and could not well take ship until she had established a firm and safe regime for her young son . |
| 10 | The Irish enforced a ‘ Ban ’ on British sports in the sense that those who wished to play Gaelic football or hurling under the aegis of the Gaelic Athletic Association could not also play football or cricket . |
| 11 | I could not even give instructions to a painter . |
| 12 | Hells bells ! they could not even spell teem ! |
| 13 | Forest landowners could not even erect fences or hedges unless they were low enough to allow the deer to enter and leave , consequently crops were often destroyed by them . |
| 14 | What can be discounted as nonsense on the other hand is the conclusion drawn by a Soviet historian with regard to the Tambov revolt : ‘ In that period the kulaks ’ political banditry became the most important means of struggle by international imperialism , Antonov could not even make contact with subversive elements in Kursk guberniia , let alone London . |
| 15 | I gave one deflection burst from port beam at about 350 yards and one careful stern burst from the same distance , but could not even keep pace with this shallow dive . |
| 16 | Like Tom , she could not really see Liza in the role of ministering angel , nor could she imagine her out in all weathers driving a tractor . |
| 17 | He claimed Strathclyde could not legally authorise projects it could not afford . |
| 18 | Under the 1982 rule change member firms could not be owned by a single non-member and could not therefore become part of wider groupings — a fact which meant that the London exchange had , in some senses , closed its doors to the rest of the international community . |
| 19 | Within the terms of Article 36 of the Vienna Convention it could not therefore claim performance of this support if it were to become needed . |
| 20 | Those who became active in PPU groups , however , could not long avoid Clifford Allen 's question — did pacifism , as such , provide an adequate basis for political action ? |
| 21 | I could not possibly do justice in this speech to all that has been written on the subject , but I hope that I have profited from the many articles which I have read since the hearing . |
| 22 | I could not possibly visualise home being home without Mother 's presence . |
| 23 | Sources say Novell Inc has already sent scouts to call on David Tory at the Open Software Foundation with the message that it could not possibly sell Unix with Motif at the kind of price the Foundation charges for a licence : it says the Foundation is now redoing its sums . |
| 24 | Sources say Novell Inc has already sent scouts to David Tory at the Open Software Foundation with the message that it could not possibly sell Unix with Motif at the kind of price OSF charges for a licence : it says OSF is now doing its sums . |
| 25 | The Institute could not possibly prejudge matters by proclaiming the auditors ' innocence from the outset . |
| 26 | For example , we would often go on expeditions to Hay-on-Wye looking for French , nineteenth-century pattern books but if you found any yourself you could not possibly claim originality . |
| 27 | Similarly , one could not satisfactorily analyse modalism in rock music without also dealing with the decline of modal folk song , in its traditional social contexts ; the urban folk revival ; the use of modal techniques by elite composers , and the ‘ discovery ’ of modal medieval and renaissance music ; the commodification of major-minor tonality by Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood , against which modalism could be seen as ‘ exotic ’ or ‘ primitive ’ ; the internationalization of capital bringing , through American cultural imperialism , the influence of modal Afro-American musics which , at the same time , could be seen as offering a potential for critique vis-à-vis the dominant , major-minor musical language ; and so on . |
| 28 | Many of the benefits of programmes , or decision units , were unable to be quantified so that the ranking process could not always take place . |
| 29 | The MPLA-PT insisted that it could not formally recognize UNITA until the Constitution had been revised , and that elections could not be held for several years until a census and electoral rolls had been drawn up . |
| 30 | It is n't hard to see here , once again , Pound 's baffled exasperation that , instead of setting up shop as maître d'école , ‘ the very learned British Museum assistant ’ should resolutely duck back into doing such a worthy and humane but undoubtedly over-modest activity as editing such of the letters of his old friend Hewlett as could not conceivably give offence . |