Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] could [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think you know , Lincolnshire has done a dam good job for the people in Lincolnshire whether it in roads , whether it be old peoples homes , or whether it be in schools , whether it be in fire stations , police stations , I admit to where one could say across the board , they could compare , that they could compare , they might compare they might live in one area and work in another . |
| 2 | It is such that nothing could get in the way of its operation save changes logically inconsistent with it or with its effect or with a causal sequence of which it and its effect are parts . |
| 3 | It was found that everyone could fit into the cellars , if the need arose , but £200 had to be spent on fans to improve the ventilation . |
| 4 | Shamanism , he explained patiently for the three idiot Brits , was a primitive practice of self-denial so that one could travel in the land of the dead and return unscathed . |
| 5 | One of the attractions of the room was that one could climb from the window out onto the roof of the bicycle shed and thence to the ground . |
| 6 | This would mean that one could appeal to the weak anthropic principle , provided one could show that string theory does at least allow there to be such regions of the universe-and it seems that indeed string theory does . |
| 7 | However , this says nothing about coordination between agencies and it is here that one could point to the possible role of networks as well . |
| 8 | So just looking at that process , the process of making a piece of practical drama , whether it comes from text or not … the processes of assessment are very complex and far-reaching , and I think it would be very unreal to say that anybody could get to the end of that process without knowing very clearly what … the task had been , how they had approached it , how it had gone at the end really . |
| 9 | It seemed that anybody could live with the small Louis XIV marquetry table , more an objet d'art than a piece of furniture . |
| 10 | An illegitimate birth in the degrading surroundings of the workhouse was about the deepest stigma that anyone could bear at the start of life . |
| 11 | It seemed impossible that anyone could survive in the middle of that storm of blades . |
| 12 | People got snappy , and nothing could compensate for the lack of leave . |
| 13 | The hostel was fairly close to town and no-one could complain about the prices . |
| 14 | If someone could crawl under the |
| 15 | ‘ But it was three-and-a-half years in development and nobody could foresee at the start what the economy would be like now . |
| 16 | Even if anyone could escape from the fuselage — which I think would be impossible in the first place — they 'd die soon after surfacing . |
| 17 | But nothing could compare with the two universal sex-symbols of the decade , Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte Bardot . |
| 18 | The weather was good , scores were high on the day , but no-one could live with the excellent golf from Dermot who kept a steady throughout , pausing only once for a ‘ chuckle ’ as colleague Kevin O'Leary pitched a 9-Iron into the nearby water hazard , albeit the Shannon . |
| 19 | The great train was standing there , faintly hissing , silver , immensely heavy , stretching away in both directions for as far as one could see in the gloom . |