Sentence examples for could not be good from inspiring English sources
With few economic opportunities, black men could not be good husbands and fathers.
Children could not be good at texting if they had not already developed considerable literacy awareness.
If they decided not to adopt a child — and there were many whom they did not adopt — it was because they felt that they could not be good parents to him for some reason, or because they worried that bringing him in would make everybody's life worse.
At the start of the war many blacks eagerly offered their services to the Union, but were rebuffed because of the prevailing racist assumption that they could not be good soldiers, and because most whites believed that blacks were not citizens and thus the nation was not theirs to defend.
I worried the news could not be good.
As I Tweeted this information, I added the line that this could not be good.
I figured this couldn't be good.
This couldn't be good for me, I decided.
There's no reason they couldn't be good in cross-country skiing and ski jumping".
