Example sentences of "it could [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court said that it could not tell the Chief Constable how he should respond to the situation as it could not judge the explosiveness of the situation at the time . |
| 2 | The writing was on the wall last year when the Government said it could not continue funding . |
| 3 | He began talking about the state of the world , saying that he had n't even looked at a newspaper all day , when one was enjoying oneself one too easily forgot everything that was not on the personal level : and yet how desperately the economic situation was deteriorating everywhere week by week , it could not end well , it might lead to anything . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Here Laski was highly critical of the abstract legal idea of absolute legal sovereignty , arguing that it could not form a realistic basis for political relationships . |
| 6 | While the anti-modernist purge put this process back a generation , it could not stop it re-emerging , especially in the most advanced areas of Catholic culture in northern Europe . |
| 7 | The hard-nosed bullet struck home into the bull 's chest , wounding it fatally , but it could not stop the lunging charge nor ward off the twin crescents of bone thrust upwards into his body with all the force of the seladang 's powerful neck . |
| 8 | A thick stolon was much delayed in its passage ; at one place it was forced to turn at right angles to its former course ; at another place it could not pass through the pins , and the hinder part became bowed ; it then curved upwards and passed through an opening between the upper part of some pins which happen to diverge ; it then descended and finally emerged through the crowd ’ ( Darwin , 1880 ) . |
| 9 | In between the publication of the White Paper and the passing of the new Act , the government decided that in view of the work required on the hospital services , it could not expect its community care proposals to be ready by the proposed launch date of April 1991 , so in early 1990 it announced a two-year delay in implementation until 1993 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | Instead of a telling-off , with time to put things right , TDC found itself under a much more strict court order with which it could not negotiate and which gave it little flexibility . |
| 12 | It could not prevent him from having doubts . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In doing so it probably aroused some sympathy among the Party membership , though it could not prevent a movement which was receiving support from national figures . |
| 15 | Although some of its own experiments were now showing that air pollution in southern England damaged leaves and made them fall early from trees , it could not bring itself to say as much . |
| 16 | Overpoweringly jealous of the revolutionary claims of the Provincial Juntas , it could not bring itself to recognize the legality of their offspring . ’ |
| 17 | When the flap of the tent was disturbed it began to shudder , but hunger was now so powerful a force in its life that it could not bring itself to leave the stench of the kill . |
| 18 | Grunwald argued that since the foundation of the sociology of knowledge was ‘ axiological ’ rather than a science with an epistemology , it could not engage in empirical research . |
| 19 | Developing since the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century , accelerating in the nineteenth century in step with the acceleration of capitalist industry , the process of intrusion increasingly separated culture out into the familiar contours of ‘ high ’ and ‘ low ’ , isolating what it could not assimilate . |
| 20 | From the ancient hierarchical point of view ( unchanged from Aristotle to Kant and beyond ) it could not matter because women themselves did not really matter . |
| 21 | In that case it is all one operation , and it could not matter that he wrote his signature on the document before the dispositive wording of the will . |
| 22 | It rained that Summer and when you thought it could not rain any more , it rained again . |
| 23 | A task force within BCCI was set up to investigate : on the basis of its report , PW told the BCCI directors that it could not sign the 1989 accounts because of a number of uncertainties , including increasing CCAH loans , an exposure of $700m to the Gulf Group , and ‘ certain accounting transactions principally booked in Cayman and other offshore centres ’ that ‘ have been either false or deceitful ’ . |
| 24 | It could not last . |
| 25 | But it could not last . |
| 26 | We both suspected that it could not last , but it even survived the Big Bang when the leisurely practices of the City — short days , long lunches , and three-day weekends — supposedly ended . |
| 27 | Things started so well at the weekend I knew it could not last . |
| 28 | It could not last , Oliver thought . |
| 29 | It could not refer to the events of ten years past , of course it could n't . |
| 30 | While Chancellor Kohl 's CDU-CSU alliance holds 309 of the 652 seats , far more than its closest rivals , the Social Democrats , who have 239 , it could not govern without the support of Hans Dietrich-Genscher 's FDP — which is why Genscher has managed to hold on to the post of Foreign Minister for so long . |