• Frank Ferguson, senior district prosecutor for CPS East of England, said evidence not available at the time Mr Burton was charged had "undermined the prosecution case so that it could not go ahead".

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  • It meant that they could not go home, although Beadle and Blork were always promising that a trip home was just around the corner.

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  • But he insisted the Old Firm could not go it alone in terms of TV deals.

    BBC: Scottish Premier League ponders expansion & play-offs

  • The Parades Commission had said it decided to restrict the Ormeau parade so that it could not cross the Ormeau Bridge and go into the lower Ormeau area "reluctantly".

    BBC: Marchers praised by Commission

  • In either case, smaller exchanges could not afford to go it alone.

    ECONOMIST: Borsa Italiana

  • It could not allow America's insurance companies to go bust when they are badly needed to rebuild confidence.

    ECONOMIST: American lawmakers are at odds over terrorist insurance

  • When memory chip maker LG Semi-con of South Korea decided to go public this year, it could not have foreseen that the bottom would drop out of the market for its primary product.

    CNN: Going to the People

  • The cow seemed to be trying to go downhill but for some reason it could not.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Lost in Uttar Pradesh'

  • "As the prize does not often go to a previous winner it could well be a very open contest this year, although Carey and McEwan are the natural frontrunners, " he said.

    BBC: McEwan heads Booker shortlist

  • It was when cabinet ministers began to say that she could not go on that I became confident enough of the trend to predict the end of what had been an exciting period in British politics.

    BBC: John Cole: Me and Mrs Thatcher

  • But if it did go into effect, that would mean Obama could not be on the ballot in Arizona.

    FORBES: Arizona Senate Passes ��Birther�� Bill

  • The death toll from the earthquake is not yet confirmed, but is estimated that it could go beyond 200, 000.

    BBC: Haiti earthquake statement

  • It found that four trusts did not even mention that staff could go outside the organisation with concerns, while a third stressed the importance of going through internal procedures.

    BBC: NHS 'needs to do more to encourage whistle-blowing'

  • Mr Mantle's wife Lynne, 48, told the inquest she had initially told Lee he could not go for a walk to the beach because it was too late.

    BBC: Boy tells of cliff tragedy

  • It's a tricky balancing act to pull off, and lots could go wrong -- for instance, it's not exactly clear how smooth it will be to switch between the two types of Windows, or if you'll even be able to get the old Windows on certain types of tablets (that is, tablets that run the power-efficient ARM processors used by the iPad and most other tablets today).

    CNN: This is the year Microsoft fights back

  • He describes how he could not take it in when he was told he was "free to go".

    BBC: Guantanamo detainees back in UK

  • In March the mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, announced that his city could not wait for such help from elsewhere and will go it alone.

    ECONOMIST: Investing in infrastructure: A question of trust | The

  • Scientific-Atlanta, which poses the question of whether, if there were securities fraud, the victims could go after not just a company that engaged in it but the company's vendors (I participated in an amicus brief that argued against holding vendors liable).

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Then their account balances ran high for a while, and they could shop or go out without worrying about not being able to afford it.

    NPR: Weak Housing Market May Not Be Signal to Buy

  • It meant AGMA's application for government Transport Innovation Fund (TiF) cash could not go ahead, and left officials searching for other ways of raising cash for transport improvements.

    BBC: 'Transport tax' proposal rejected

  • Liberal Democrat AM Jenny Randerson argued that that the measure did not go far enough to enforce the rules as it lists exceptions which could create many grey areas.

    BBC: Welsh Assembly

  • Deep down, Europeans probably knew that they could not go on living beyond their means for ever, even if it took the bond markets and German finger-wagging rather than bold politicians to drive the message home.

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

  • Some heurige go for a rural look that is somewhat contrived, but here it could not be otherwise.

    BBC: In tune with Vienna

  • After charging up the battery, sliding it into the rack system at the back of the bike (which could not be simpler), and locking it into place, you're ready to go.

    ENGADGET: Schwinn Tailwind electric bike review

  • It could even cost more: The higher-ups at the DEC will decide whether or not to go after their commercial fishing licenses.

    FORBES

  • Twenty years ago, or thereabouts, young Arabs in the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council), for example, would find it easier to go into a role with government where life was not entirely strenuous and where they could get good money.

    FORBES: Arabia-Asia: Seasoned Banker Reflects On Rekindled Trade Routes

  • We were able to maintain high-quality control while spending this out in a very quick and effective way -- partly because there's so much need out there that it's not like we're having to hunt for a lot of projects that could be ready to go.

    WHITEHOUSE: Meeting of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness | The White House

  • "Young theorists especially would love to see supersymmetry go down the drain, because it means that the real thing is something they could invent - not something that was invented by the older generation, " he said.

    BBC: LHC results put supersymmetry theory 'on the spot'

  • "I wanted to go to North Korea and because it was not yet mapped I decided to start mapping so I could at least see how easy it would be to travel within the country, " Sebastiaan van Oyen, who works as a risk manager for a financial trading firm in Sydney, told the BBC.

    BBC: Google expands North Korea map coverage

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