Example sentences of "[noun sg] could [adv] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | St Antonino of Florence felt that the professional soldier could not fight in a war the justice of which was not above doubt , nor could he be given absolution as long as he continued to fight in that cause . |
| 2 | While it might be interesting to compare Mrs. Simper 's and Sophronia 's reactions to lower servants better educated than themselves , the essential point is that a violation of the ordinary division of labour could easily result in a domestic servant losing his or her place . |
| 3 | Third , there is the growing recognition that Labour could not carry through a radical programme of change without mass support . |
| 4 | If Labour could not win at a time of economic gloom , bolstered by the most effective campaign it has ever fought , and facing a Government whose campaign did not really come to life until the last 10 days — then when could it ? |
| 5 | When the reality is that a cottage pie housing a six-year-old ingredient could probably qualify as a listed dwelling . |
| 6 | So the citizen could only flourish as a person by acting as a part or member of the whole , the community . |
| 7 | In Kober 's pianos the check could only function as a hammer rest and not as a true check because the hammer pointed towards the player . |
| 8 | Two members of the Wigtown council could not vote in a parliamentary election without voiding the election , for the Earl of Galloway and his eldest son Lord Garlies were both members . |
| 9 | Personnel management could thus draw upon a wealth of experience , a skilled data processing staff and the fact that there already existed a library of programs although none of them were designed to access or process personnel records . |
| 10 | A young research social scientist could well go into a factory and tell the people she worked with that she was a student on a placement for , say , three months , learning about the realities of factory work , when in fact she was a graduate research worker carrying out a carefully planned study of labour-management relationships . |
| 11 | A banquet could evidently develop into a nasty clash between the cook and the gardener . |
| 12 | There is no legally guaranteed freedom of speech , no legal right to a fair trial which Parliament could not remove at a stroke . |
| 13 | If they knew for certain that a vote of censure could not result in a general election , but would simply bring about a reshuffle in the Government , their conduct would become more robust . |
| 14 | Apart from making fun of Li Peng , the main message of the posters was that reform could not succeed without a sound education system , a view widely supported among intellectuals , especially those in the Democratic Alliance . |
| 15 | The tapestry could well end with a Scottish victory . |
| 16 | Any international body could minimally agree to a framework of discussion and agreement . |
| 17 | Thus in Hartog v Colin and Shields [ 1939 ] 3 All ER 566 , it was held that the plaintiff could not sue on a contract for the sale of hare skins at so much per pound when he knew that the offeror really meant to sell at that price per piece . |
| 18 | Nevertheless what was being demonstrated in the course of 1945 was that — whatever the feelings of affinity that might exist between Britain and the United States — a substantial relationship could not endure without a strong sense of common interests and above all a sense of exposure to common dangers . |
| 19 | Whatever the truth , the unwelcome publicity could not come at a worse time for Mercedes — just as it is launching its new top-of-the-range ‘ S ’ model after 12 years of development . |
| 20 | ‘ Well sir , I think we can rule out natural causes and I ca n't see how dynamite could accidentally get under a table , so unless he committed suicide in a way that endangered the lives of other people , I think we must assume it was murder . |
| 21 | It explains how ‘ adolescence ’ as a concept could almost appear as a metaphor for human nature : dangerous if left untutored and ‘ natural ’ , but capable of ennobling the race if the ‘ natural ’ was educated by , to quote Urwick again , ‘ the skilled hand ’ . |
| 22 | Rosemary Roche , 35 , of Gillingham , Kent , endured five years of pain and for a while could only walk with a stick , said Deputy High Court Judge Morrison . |
| 23 | Eighteen years later Jean Genet commented that he could see the revolution could n't work after a visit to the Odeon , occupied by students and workers . |
| 24 | Such a top could certainly spin about a sideways direction but the electron is restricted to the " up " and " down " possibilities . |
| 25 | For these reasons , a barter-based economy could not develop into a sophisticated modern economy in which the buying and selling of goods and services takes place on a continuous basis . |
| 26 | If an individual or the members of a firm may sue for a libel imputing to them insolvency , because of the damage which such a libel is calculated to do them in relation to their business , could it possibly be maintained that a trading corporation could not sue for a like libel ? … |
| 27 | Dustin could never go to a chemist and ask for condoms , although he had no difficulty in buying women 's contraceptives . |
| 28 | Martin Pipe 's decent handicapper Vagog could well run into a place . |
| 29 | CD 's fourth novel , and the first of the two serialized in his weekly periodical , Master Humphrey 's Clock , 1840–1 , after an early drop in sales had convinced him that the magazine could not succeed as a miscellany . |
| 30 | Such lèse-majesté could only come from a member of the public . |