Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] could [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A more dynamic approach of this kind was possible with the advent of computers which could analyse the necessary amounts of synoptic data . |
| 2 | Half-way along the back of the lower legs you could see the vicious spur with which the birds fought . |
| 3 | In other words they could overcome the debilitating impact of high unemployment and the government 's attempts it deflation which had clearly weakened the trade union movement 's powers of resistance during the early 1920s . |
| 4 | Essentially , the cold war preserved American power structures and so prevented the emergence of a new set of political institutions which could regulate the post-Fordist global economy , and which could manage and respond to the dramatic changes in the balance of the world economy as a result of the introduction of new methods of production , especially in Japan and Western Europe , based on the intensive use of information technologies . |
| 5 | Within the year there was money made available for projects which could take the broad skills of a science like genetic manipulation and give them a saleable medical application . |
| 6 | One of the main reasons for this disagreement could be the dynamic character of DNA curvature , caused by differential sequence-dependent DNA flexibility ( 8,9 ) and the existence of context-dependent interactions which could influence the wedge-like features of dinucleotide steps , as in the case of AnTm tracts ( 5,9,26 ) . |
| 7 | The findings should provide the basis for proposals which could improve the GP-Patient consultation . |
| 8 | Since consultants gave their time free they were more available in more wealthy urban areas which could support the private practices that provided their income . |
| 9 | As terrestrial and satellite companies compete for sport and movies , the two major commodities which could ensure the future success of television , the conference will consider how the contest for the SPOILS OF SPORT will progress over the next decade . |
| 10 | Coun leader Arthur Taylor told the full council yesterday that they had made a sensible deal with the bus companies which could save the free pass scheme . |
| 11 | His leg thrust into the volume of her skirts so that it was hard against her pelvis , and even through the multitude of petticoats she could feel the hard , rigid evidence of his ungovernable arousal as he straddled her thigh . |
| 12 | And it was the earls who could produce the great and so necessary manpower . |
| 13 | Within information supplier domains you could find the following elements : |
| 14 | In the next 12 weeks we could lose the next general election . ’ |
| 15 | Maxim touched the outside of his right thigh ; through the thin cotton trousers he could trace the hard-edged crater that had come close to killing him , out in the desert hours from real medical aid . |
| 16 | I appreciate that the legislation , as drawn , enables my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State to draw up regulations which could redefine the 25 per cent . |
| 17 | States were therefore keen to see the federally supported mental health centres as the new agencies which could play the leading role . |
| 18 | The dearth was of persons who could give the only kind of witness that counts with those looking for help , the kind that is couched in the first person singular ’ ( Trueblood 1961:51 ) . |
| 19 | As far as the working classes were concerned all that was needed was managers who could determine the right mix of films and the right range of prices to suit the specific down-town drop-in cinemas and even more the neighbourhood and small-town cinemas that were now increasingly thought of as catering for ‘ industrial ’ or working-men audiences . |
| 20 | In addition to installing basic systems for accounting , cost-control and distribution , Mr Shirley helped to create a layer of reliable executives who could translate the technical visions of the company 's chairman and founder , Mr Bill Gates , into products that got out the door , on time and to budget . |
| 21 | Once shorewards of the breakers they could interpret the relative quiet as deeper water , and swim shorewards to their sad suicides . |
| 22 | This of course is what inspired Thor Heyerdahl 's dramatic Kon-Tiki expedition in which he sailed on a raft from South America to Polynesia , thus hoping to prove that he was following in the wake of ancient migration routes which could explain the cultural similarities he found between the two culture areas . |
| 23 | Penny 's range is very impressive , and there can be few scholars who could cover the same material with such authority . |
| 24 | Through the heavy fretwork of its top windows he could see the towering minarets of the Bab es Zuweyla , and from the box window of the storey below , where he was standing when Sesostris approached , he had a good view along the street in both directions . |
| 25 | Through her half-closed eyelids she could see the tiny droplets of water glistening on his skin . |
| 26 | Adult female suffrage gave legal recognition to an utterly new status for women who could enter the public world as individuals in their own right rather than as members of families . |
| 27 | By the 1770s or 1780s there were few European rulers who could feel the same unquestioning self-assurance as Louis XIV a century earlier . |
| 28 | The club that once prided itself on having so few injuries they could field the same team week in week out now has so many invalids they are lucky to have the same side two games running . |
| 29 | The houses were shaded clear against the ground : on the hills he could see the white lines of the new walls they were building like netting all over the high ground ; from the direction of the lake he heard an occasional voice , as sharp as the crack of a pistol . |
| 30 | Through my binoculars I could see the white wing bars and the slightly bizarre face pattern : two small blobs of white — like false eyes — on his forehead . |