Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] could [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a hazardous undertaking : everyone thought of the nitrogen mustards as dangerous compounds which could destroy vital cells in many organs . |
| 2 | One of the possible catching methods which could bear most fruit was , he added , long-lining , once universal along the Scottish coasts and mostly abandoned . |
| 3 | They were described as designed to disadvantage the fledgling opposition parties which could expect substantial support from West German sister parties . |
| 4 | Despite new regulations , there are still plenty of materials in most homes which could produce lethal fumes if fire broke out . |
| 5 | This will be routinely tested at your antenatal visits for pregnancy diabetes and the presence of proteins which could indicate that pre-eclampsia is developing . |
| 6 | A touch of restraint on his horse 's reins to reduce its gallop and an extravagant sign of the cross were the best amends he could make this time for his inability to comply . |
| 7 | In a few months he could leave those rooms over the shop and the shop itself for ever . |
| 8 | The interviewer is trying to find out if you left your last job for reasons which could pose similar problems if you came to work with his/her firm . |
| 9 | Bush is so certain that he 's lost The Big Three he has stopped campaigning there , concentrating on a dozen battleground states which could go either way . |
| 10 | Mr d'Ancona says much of the monitoring work done in Glasgow is geared to identifying projects which could yield future orders for supply companies which officials will alert by phone as soon as a trade lead is spotted . |
| 11 | The trip was organised by the Offshore Supplies Office with support from 48 companies wanting to ensure that UK capability was fully appreciated by countries which could become leading export markets for technology developed in the North Sea . |
| 12 | Is it not the case that when the Government privatised the electricity and gas companies they created not a range of companies which could induce real competition for the benefit of customers and the environment but large companies with near monopoly supply status which are not in the least interested in energy efficiency ? |
| 13 | Both the ITV broadcaster and the BBC are renowned for their programme archives which could attract new viewers to satellite and cable if promoted properly . |
| 14 | Thus they are doubtful as to whether or not SSE is likely to be superficial ; about whether it is too time-consuming ; about the extent to which it would reveal matters which could threaten professional reputations or harm relationships and whether any evidence produced as a result of SSE would be sufficiently objective . |
| 15 | He wrote home often , trying to keep his family 's spirits up , but between the lines one could read that life was not good . |
| 16 | We found that the best were often child care experts who could suggest constructive alternatives , not so often the most senior people in the organisation . |
| 17 | Liz Matson had been very impressed at how much Laura had taught herself from books ; using cardboard patterns she could manage basic grading . |
| 18 | This could be due in part to the fact that the only guitars I could draw any parallels with , in terms of appearance , were the infamous Jedsons of the late '60s and early '70s , guitars which many of us have nightmares about even now . |
| 19 | This collaboration was not only about generating some ideas which could become possible policies , it was also designed to allow a sharing of a common challenge and to promote understanding of the fact that everyone in an LMS environment has a vital role to play . |
| 20 | Against the black walls there were of course changes in fashion , changes of music , changes in drink ; for instance for a couple of years you could get little liqueur glasses of violently alcoholic black coffee with pyramids of whipped cream on top after one of the barstaff had come back from an affair with a real sailor ( or so he said anyway ) in some German port , Germany somewhere . |
| 21 | For shady places you could include small ferns or ivy . |
| 22 | Oh , well these are substantial houses and I would imagine that for the six houses we could get twelve families , twelve families housed immediately , they 'd be substantial houses . |
| 23 | By the light of torches I could see one policeman but he could not see me , and my pleas for help were not heeded . |
| 24 | Now Michael White and John Gribbin have given us Stephen Hawking : a Life in Science , or rather Mr White has given us the life and Mr Gribbin the science ; the latter is awash with black holes , white dwarfs , protons , pulsars , quasars and quarks and is therefore no more comprehensible than Brief History ; also , what is one to make of a writer who speaks at one moment of ‘ tiny black holes ’ and the next of ‘ black holes which could eat solar systems for breakfast ’ ? |
| 25 | Mr Hargreaves , Mr Crompton and Sir Richard Arkwright made hand-operated machines which could spin many threads at the same time . |
| 26 | This is the time when patients are assessed and nurses have an opportunity to decide whether a patient has particular problems which could endanger personal safety . |
| 27 | Czechoslovakia — for many years the most reformist of the CMEA countries — was treated as a pariah by Western governments after the collapse of the Prague Spring and , under the watchful ‘ normalisation ’ of Gustav Husak 's leadership , has preferred economic stagnation to the sort of risks and reforms which could start Western trade flowing again . |
| 28 | If only we could draw in nine dimensions we could make each dimension correspond to one of the nine genes . |
| 29 | JS advertisements made it clear to customers they could expect higher standards from Sainsbury 's . |
| 30 | So this one you 'd mark off one two three and this they would actually use this erm if they were loading lorries they could use this sort of thing . |