Example sentences of "[indef pn] could [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nothing could ever compare to the delights of JTR 's landlady and accommodation … |
| 2 | This could well be so , but an increase in oxygen is coincident with an increase in appetite , so one could well go with the other . |
| 3 | One could well say of the event horizon what the poet Dante said of the entrance to Hell : " All hope abandon , ye who enter here . " |
| 4 | No one could therefore call for the closure of incineration plants at a stroke , because noxious chemicals have to go somewhere . |
| 5 | The most base instincts — the desire for food or sex — were , he argued , all that one could ever find in the unshaped man , and human nature was as indifferent to good or evil as free-flowing water is to the shape it eventually fills . ’ |