Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [pron] could [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twelve and a half per cent 's going to be twelve and a half over a hundred , er , oh , well , we 're going to cancel , but first of all we could go the opposite way , and multiply , just to get rid of this fraction . |
| 2 | Like other movements to bring about change in the same period antislavery had to find ways of attracting the attention and gaining the support of those who could advance the cause . |
| 3 | There was dappled shade for those who preferred it or , by moving just a little , the afternoon sun for those who could stand the heat . |
| 4 | But for those who could receive a smattering of instruction at home , or who had spent a short while at day schools in their infancy , they may well have nourished a plant that might otherwise have ceased to grow , or even withered . |
| 5 | Whilst the inconclusive debate between monogenists and polygenists in anthropology , and the influence of Christianity and political liberalism , somewhat tempered the ethnocentrism of scientific and official attitudes , the Darwinian revolution swept away many of the restraints which checked the development of racist views , at least for those who could see no difference between evolution in the natural world and human achievements . |
| 6 | From that he could deduce the centre of mass for the entire animal , the point through which its forces act . |
| 7 | From this they could create a map of the Viking world , using different symbols for settlement , raiding , trading activities , exploration , etc . |
| 8 | Once the legs were jointed I turned the leg and stretcher assembly upside down on to the bottom of the seat and from this I could mark the centres to be drilled and set the bevels to repeat the process . |
| 9 | In the light that came from these he could see a rough plank table and three chairs and in the darkest corner a bed of stretched hides on which was curled up something darker still , a bundle the size of an old woman . |
| 10 | What struck me , however , was how distant the preoccupations of the audience were from those which could capture a majority in modern Britain , or could govern it successfully if that majority were ever won . |
| 11 | While the pavement tables attracted some passing trade from those who could find no restaurant seats on the Champs-Elysées at suppertime , the inner bar remained a more-or-less private sanctum for Victor 's regulars . |
| 12 | The first practical measures of educational extension were instituted during the 1850s and 1860s when London degrees were opened to all who could pass an " external " examination , but it was only towards the end of the 1860s that an emphasis on English language , literature , and history became an important feature of the process of extension . |
| 13 | Important or insignificant , customs appointments were , however , obtainable only by those who could expect a political favour , and many of the officers were in fact the nominees of a member of parliament and often the active partisans of that politician . |