Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] could [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Information as used in communication studies refers to the range of possible alternative words which could occur in a certain position in speech .
2 The union has highlighted 24 regional branches which could close in a Lloyds-Midland merger .
3 ‘ Dixie ’ — a nickname said to derive from his swarthy complexion and curly black hair — preferred to augment his income by making bets with bookmakers on the basis of the number of goals he could score in a game ( one goal was evens , two goals 5–2 , and three 10- 1 ) , Sportsmen , especially footballers , had since the 1880s been used on cigarette cards as free advertising for a brand .
4 In the wet months it could turn into a quagmire .
5 It is certainly working for the BBC Junior Library Services , and there must be other areas which could benefit from a combined approach .
6 At some time over the next couple of days he could call into a hardware shop to find a match , and replace the missing part on his next visit .
7 if you watch the news , watch the nine o'clock news tonight and try and sift out how many things you could put into a negative pile and how many you could put into a positive pile and I think that you would find that the negative pile
8 In fact at various times there would be BBC rulings issued down concerning the number of breaks you could have in a recording , so you had to choose your breaks with great discretion to make best use of them .
9 No , not then , they all had cara well they used to have wee things they could stick on a a cart , a kind of bow shaped thing .
10 The book is complementary to Durant and Fabb 's Literary Studies in Action , published by Routledge in the Interface series in 1990 , and in many ways it could serve as a useful introduction to that volume .
11 It did not adopt a controversial Egyptian proposal for the creation of a chain of rapid deployment forces which could respond to a request from any of the eight states .
12 In the first few months we received a considerable amount of written advice from individuals and professional organisations , and so in making our decisions we could draw on a range of expertise .
13 The pre-season dispute over which contest — the Eddie Aikau or the Triple Crown — would have priority if the surf topped twenty feet at Waimea seemed about as relevant as an argument over how many angels you could fit on a pinhead .
14 The we means ‘ someone in my group ’ , and when a Zuwayi used we in this sense , the reference group was small and was likely to include his own ancestors and relatives , men he could name in a line of descent which included both speaker and audience , which explained the existence and identity of each person , and provided them with a character and loyalties .
15 I 've known horses I could read like a book .
16 Caradon also refused to comment , but has already announced that it was involved in talks which could lead to a bid .
17 She also asked us each to decide how many garments we could make in a week , not sewn up ( if we chose to do this we were paid extra ) .
18 With distributed database systems we could continue with a couple of things mentioned earlier on .
19 Along the road leading to it were many altars and shrines and there are also remains which could belong to a theatre .
20 What we tend to do is to brief ourselves very thoroughly on vulnerable spots in the world , and in countries where we already have links and where we 've worked before and we know the background because we , we feel we need that and we monitor very carefully certain events which could lead to a disaster , so that when the disaster does happen , like for instance the Ugandan famine of nineteen seventy-nine to eighty-one , we knew exactly when it was going to happen and we knew exactly where the people were , we knew who was going to be affected , we knew why they were affected , we knew where the food stocks were , we knew how long it was going to take to get so many thousand tonnes of food from A to B erm and how many trucks you would need .
21 This was brought home to her when the only holiday jobs she could get as a teenager were helping on market stalls and working as a chambermaid in a hotel .
  Next page