Example sentences of "could not [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since , the " Commando " had a clear warning that the contents should not be used after a certain time , this was deemed to put the plaintiff on notice not to use the herbicide and he could not complain that his own misunderstanding of the consequences of ignoring the warning had rendered the herbicide unfit for the purpose which it was supplied . |
| 2 | Nozick anyway could not hold that it does , because his position relies on the independent proof it provides that you do n't know you are not a brain in a vat . |
| 3 | The faculty could not think that a young man of 35 years , who had written one book which not everyone thought wonderful , could hold a candle to his predecessor . |
| 4 | She could not think that , and in a way the question was senseless . |
| 5 | He would wait a few days before having his hair cut , so that they could not think that they had made him . |
| 6 | The gaslight flickered in the alley — and then I could not bear that he should be out of my sight . |
| 7 | The species could not survive if men and women could not recognize that they were both alike as members of one species and different as individuals of opposite sex . |
| 8 | ‘ Even my good friend Shallot could not swear that I did not slip out of my chamber to commit this dreadful act . ’ |
| 9 | As the hon. Member for Livingston can promise his hon. Friends nothing about money , he could not prevent that from happening if he returned to the old system . |
| 10 | Even in death , some members of the Glencairn family could not forget that she had been a commoner and objected to her burial in the vault . |
| 11 | He could not forget that Blackbeard had arrived on the scene sweating and then become coldly murderous in his need to get the wallet back . |
| 12 | They could not forget that the American government had already backed away from some of its more liberal inclinations on postwar world economic development in the face of various domestic pressure groups . |
| 13 | The Primitive Methodists , whose work was mostly amongst working people , admitted with a sorrow they could not hide that ‘ the growing worldliness of men needs a faithful and independent ministry ; the increased educational facilities and the advance of science challenge us to put the best talent we can produce into the pulpit ’ . |
| 14 | If they could not exercise that power themselves , or count on the eastern empire to do it for them , then they would find it where they could . |
| 15 | Even assuming that A 's excessive use of a particular highway could amount to a public nuisance , that could not mean that B , C or D could not use the highway , however reasonably , for fear of committing public nuisance . |
| 16 | And , since I could not admit that I often found Nonni both difficult and boring , I had a hard time with myself . |
| 17 | Sometimes they possessed knowledge about sex , but could not admit that this was sexual , or that they had those sorts of desires . |
| 18 | Faced with Faye 's genuine kindness , which surfaced frequently to soften the more ruthless , temperamental side of her personality , Belinda could not admit that she did not feel comfortable in the dress , so she said quite sincerely , ‘ That 's so lovely of you , Faye . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He could not conceive that anything really serious could be worrying his friend . |
| 21 | Bartholomew was the most senior US official to visit Pakistan since October 1990 when the US Congress suspended economic and military assistance to Pakistan after it could not certify that Pakistan had no nuclear weapons programme . |
| 22 | Herr Klein said he could not confirm that Mengele had returned twice to Germany during his years in South American exile — once for the funeral of his mother — but he knew that he had escaped to Argentina immediately after the war . |
| 23 | An RUC spokesman said he could not confirm that police officers involved had not been suspended . |
| 24 | Therefore we could not confirm that airway growth is more vulnerable than peripheral lung growth in low birth-weight children as Chan et al showed . |
| 25 | Churchill , as First Lord of the Admiralty , could not explain that he had been conscious of enemy intentions , without giving away the secret that German codes were being broken . |
| 26 | I felt and this is the bit I like , I , I some I , I used to set this at one point in the examination question and ask people to guess which American president said it I 'll read , I 'll read it to you measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful if indispensable to the preservation of the constitution through the preservation of the nation just , I 'll just get the essence of that , measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful if indispensable to the preservation of the constitution through the preservation of the nation ninety percent put Richard Nixon er no one put Abraham Lincoln er cos he was one of the good guys right or wrong I assume this ground I could not feel that to the best of my ability I had even tried to preserve the if to save James Buchanan is essentially the Pontius Pilate of American politics he says yes these are very acute problems er and very difficult er and I 'd like to help but I 'm sorry I ca n't and I really do have to go off and wash my hands now erm and , you know , you carry on and when you 've resolved it tell me what you want me to do and I 'll , |
| 27 | At this Drew became disturbed and emotional , and said that , if the three people that he had previously named — the Lindos and Norman Stubbs , the stage manager — could not testify that he was at the theatre at the time of the murder , he knew of no-one else who could , but he certainly did not commit any murder , nor was he seen in Cross Street with blood on his face . |
| 28 | Many had been decaying steadily for years : their owners had no use for them and could not imagine that anyone else would . |
| 29 | And they were so contemptuous of the Nazis and their cohorts they could not imagine that they themselves featured in the minds and machinations of such louts . |
| 30 | She could not imagine that she had ever been the first person . |