Example sentences of "[indef pn] could [vb infin] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father David , of nearby Lytham , said : ‘ You do not think someone could die from a disease in just 10 hours . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ But it was three-and-a-half years in development and nobody could foresee at the start what the economy would be like now . |
| 3 | It was also felt that it was a company which nobody could attack on the grounds of political bias in favour of the project — if anything , thought Walsh , the other way round , after he had seen a portrait of Margaret Thatcher prominently displayed in its Ealing headquarters . |
| 4 | But er all of that was negated by the fact with the amount of fire and smoke that was on the platform , nobody could get to the lifeboats . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | People got snappy , and nothing could compensate for the lack of leave . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Nothing could detract from the atmosphere that Madge 's set created , an otherworld of romantic fairyland , all silver and white and iridescent greens . |
| 9 | Nothing could happen until the evening , but then Lucy got her chance to see the inside of Charlie 's office much sooner than she 'd expected . |
| 10 | The hostel was fairly close to town and no-one could complain about the prices . |
| 11 | It might be thought that so long as one asserted the local sign theory only in principle ( that is , did not specify the precise nature of the ‘ feeling ’ or ‘ colouring ’ which is supposed to subserve localisation ) , one could rely on the testimony of introspection for one 's theory to be confirmed . |
| 12 | ‘ Black people are the original people of the Earth , no one could exist on the planet without us and we must wake up , to struggle and do what we have to do to come into power , ’ announces Chester , striding across the stage , as the audience cheers . |
| 13 | That strength of mind one could sense below the surface , that glow of authority that seemed to radiate from his skin . |
| 14 | To be sure , one could sympathize with the sentiments of some of those penitents who refused themselves pleasures because the Emperor , saviour of mankind , could experience no pleasure whatever , locked as he had been for millennia in his prosthetic throne … |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Anybody to whom one could talk about the place ? |
| 17 | How could one refuse tenderness to someone so frail and tiny , to someone whose bones one could break with the flick of wrist , to someone who greeted one with smiles and later whoops of purest delight , who wept if one left them , and would die if one neglected them ? |
| 18 | By not assigning 9 , but using it as " an octave device " , one could establish as a convention a way of producing a hierarchy of numbers allowing for almost infinite addition in array . |
| 19 | The French delegation led by M. Jean Arrivetz of FACS stressed the desirability of using a mnemonic one could say as a word . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Frozen vegetables were , somehow , a lowering of standards , but they were quick and convenient and really fresher than anything one could get in the London shops . |
| 22 | This did not surprise me , since one could see at a glance that Herr Bremann was a gentleman of great decency . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | However , it is unclear to me at this time what recommendations one could put in the form of legislation to be put before the House that would command the majority needed to make sensible legislation , to allow the country to move forward in the 1990s . |
| 25 | Towards the end of Section 1.8 we noted that the only interpretation one could put upon the equality unc between the two polynomials mentioned is that 1 = 0 , -3 = 0 and 2 = 0 in Q. Thus the above equality is meaningful but blatantly false . |
| 26 | Occasionally one could dispense with the bran and undersheet and purchase a tailored mattress ; likewise the sides could be padded and buttoned and a pillow provided . |
| 27 | Gavin stuck his head out from under the duvet , giving me cause once more to marvel at the impressive way the lad 's shoulders merged into his head with no apparent narrowing in between ( this appeared to be the principal physical benefit bestowed by the game of rugby ; the acquisition of an extremely thick neck , just as the most important thing one could take to the sport was a thick skull , and from it an intact one still in satisfactory two-way communication with one 's spinal cord ) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The rows of young men perched atop the slatted sides sang snatches of song which no one could hear above the noise of the engine . |
| 30 | Very well , he reasoned , then grog jelly was not too far removed from the mandate he had been given , and no one could object to the addition of a delicious fruit sorbet . |