Example sentences of "[det] [prep] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1921 , The Waste Land clearly on his mind , Eliot complained that the anti-Georgian poets were ‘ mostly such as could imagine the Last Judgment only as a lavish display of Bengal lights , Roman candles , catherine-wheels , and inflammable fire-balloons . |
| 2 | Because iron structural members were used in circumstances where great strength was required , it is very unlikely that serious defects , such as could affect timber or masonry before they become unsafe , can arise without causing collapse . |
| 3 | ‘ Where the processes carried on or the machinery installed are such as could be carried on or installed in any residential area without detriment to amenity of that area by reason of noise , vibration , smell , fumes , soot ash , dust or grit ’ . |
| 4 | As far as beating down and killing went , nothing very much was achieved , for the enemy were now everywhere in flight , such as could run , none staying to fight , not in Ramsay 's sector at any rate . |
| 5 | It is not Venice but it has warmth , colour , and views such as could stretch the most infertile imagination . |
| 6 | To a creamy sauce for white fish such as John Dory , brill and sole , to dishes of molluscs such as mussels and scallops , its concentrated , pungent-sweet and aromatic qualities give a lift such as could hardly be achieved with a mountain of fennel stalks or seeds used in the preparation of the initial stock ( anise is a close relation of fennel , caraway and dill ) , and this in turn gives one ideas as to the use of many other liqueurs , aromatic vermouths , country wines , even drinks such as Pernod and Pastis in the cooking of fish and white meat and poultry dishes . |
| 7 | If something drastic were not done , then British politics would drift into class antagonism such as could be observed in France . |
| 8 | This does not mean that it is the product of labour ( such as could be required by a technique of narration and the mastery of style ) but the very theatre of a production where the producer and reader of the text meet : the text ‘ works ’ , at each moment and from whatever side one takes it . |
| 9 | Barthes says the text is not ‘ the product of a labour ( such as could be required by a technique of narrative or a mastery of style ) ’ . |
| 10 | Under a similar provision in the Bankruptcy Act 1914 it had been held that a defect in a bankruptcy notice of a kind such as could reasonably mislead the debtor was not a mere formal defect or irregularity within the meaning of that provision , and therefore rendered the notice a nullity even though it was not calculated to cause substantial injustice . |
| 11 | Second , gravitational data show that the maria are sites of excess mass called mascons such as could be produced by infill of an impact basin as follows . |
| 12 | These examples show that , as in all cases , whether an adjective counts as restrictive or not depends on what exactly is in the mental focus of the speaker on any particular token occasion , and definitely not on any relation of inclusion that might exist between the meanings of the adjective and noun as type elements , such as could be found in the dictionary ( or more accurately between those parts of an external world which might be correlated with the meanings of the adjective and noun ) . |
| 13 | what you , your case is as I understand it , I 've only intervened cos I think the question did n't dis perhaps a lack of understanding this by Lord allow me to say so , what you 're saying is that erm , in fact , although not intentionally you 're prepared to accept the format of the brochure in relation to the on going charges was such as could reasonably be said by your newspaper to have mislead prospective purchasers |
| 14 | Not all of could be sampled by the questionnaire but comparison with the 1991 census figures suggests that the number of children in the catchment area could be over three hundred . |