Example sentences of "[Wh pn] could [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe not , but some Hollywood stars are forced to live in genuine fear of their lives , who could fail to give a shiver at the predicament of actress Sharon Gless — star of Cagney and Lacey — who was tormented for years by an obsessional lesbian fan . |
| 2 | Anybody who could sew had a collection on show and fashion ruled . |
| 3 | The investigators were disturbed by the sheer size of the movie audience , and , thinking of that statistic of 115 million people a week , they asked : ‘ When has the globe ever known the like ? ’ and ‘ Who could have imagined a population more nearly , more inclusively , unified by a single agency ? ’ |
| 4 | Table 2.2 links the number of students who could have achieved a degree award by the summer of 1987 with the number of awards actually made . |
| 5 | If the known mosaics belonged to private rather than official or religious buildings , this might indicate the presence of wealthier individuals who could have formed a town council , as might the marked concentration of late villas in the area , including that at Ilchester Mead , just outside the south-western suburbs . |