Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] could [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I spoke like that I could pretend that Syl and his house were unreal and my projected presence in it merely an extension of that fantasy , but the wedding loomed ever closer like a rock and I , poor ship , was about to founder on it . |
| 2 | There are a number of reasons for this which could take all day to expound , but the main reason and the one I shall elaborate is that industrialised agriculture nearly always consumes more energy than it produces and is living off capital in the form of fossil fuels . |
| 3 | You wa , if you think of those soaps , I bet , I 'm convinced you could miss six weeks of the soaps and still not lose a minute of the plot . |
| 4 | Yet if there were sufficient pressure and demand , I am convinced they could produce suitable kits . |
| 5 | It 's likely she could face lengthy physiotherapy and recovery may be slow . |
| 6 | Some viruses can be so vicious that if you do not take care of yourself for a couple of days when you first fall ill you could spend three weeks or more under par . |
| 7 | At worst it could mean many months in hospital . |
| 8 | It 's quite possible we could pass each other and not even realize it . |
| 9 | In fact , there was n't anything else at all I could do that night except go to bed . |
| 10 | I wondered if she might ever get frostbite ; I was sure I could see little crystals of ice glinting on her faint moustache . |
| 11 | I am sure I could sting this town 's senile pensioners for a couple of quid , by selling them the old tea hut as firewood . |
| 12 | And I 'm sure you could have great discussions with the people there and so on about all sorts of things . |
| 13 | Sixty you could do six times six two sixes . |
| 14 | Strongly opposing the maintenance of an essentially arbitrary general retirement-age , the Committee recommended that the test for engagement or retirement should be capacity , not age , and that all who could give effective service should have the chance to continue in work if they so wished . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm sure we could find another volunteer . ’ |
| 16 | Party-managers were not sure they could carry Conservative backbenchers on a control bill , let alone the Commons as a whole . |
| 17 | Mrs Langley , who had stood over them while he spoke , forbidding in burgundy taffeta and garnets , said she was sure they could amuse each other very well without her . |
| 18 | General Hodge met Jackson and deduced that he and some other members of UNTCOK would do all they could to sabotage American aims in south Korea . |
| 19 | There was a time , not long ago , when families would do all they could to suppress such information . |
| 20 | Such cosseting made passengers feel they were very special and the airlines did all they could to encourage distinguished people to fly with them Imperial Airways carried HM King Feisal from Baghdad to Gaza in 1927 and later took to publishing monthly lists of their important passengers . |
| 21 | And pointed out that he was doing all he could to find alternative engagements for the musicians . |
| 22 | The Labour Party leadership did all it could to limit any appeal which the Left outside the Party might exercise over its members . |
| 23 | Ada and Daisy 's task was to hand round food , and to talk to those who could manage some conversation . |
| 24 | In Paris Haussmann had no such tabula rasa , so that demolition meant displacement of established communities , a circumstance which gave rise to bitter complaints , many justified , by those caught in the upheaval , as well as a great deal of sordid speculation by those who could buy run-down property cheaply and sell dear for compensation . |
| 25 | Because of this , even those who could afford professional labour will often prefer to do it themselves . |
| 26 | Dr Bacher , who confessed to feeling ‘ incredibly emotional , ’ said he was ‘ really happy we could take two teams on tour — the senior side which demonstrates where we are coming from , and the youth team where we are going . ’ |
| 27 | Miraculously cured of back pains just before he had joined the NSC , he had joined a charismatic Episcopal congregation , in which he kept the church manners of a Catholic ; and where appeals for the contras were concerned he could take either voice , as necessary . |
| 28 | Protectionism is not a serious counter movement to global capitalism because if it was successful it could do great damage to the system and , ultimately , destroy it . |
| 29 | Erm we could write that as , instead of the hundred and twenty we could have twelve times ten could n't we ? |
| 30 | Before 1 January 1926 it could take three forms : coparcenary , or tenancy in common , or joint tenancy . |