Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [vb infin] [that] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | I could foresee that these factors might lose us the seat — even if the Conservative vote was on its best politically correct behaviour on polling day . |
2 | Nellie was convinced it would pass , even though she could feel that both children had high temperatures . |
3 | And as to dictatorships — in which he says two people in every 100 are interested in politics as opposed to three in a hundred in a democracy — you could argue that some dictatorships succeeded because they appealed to primitive instincts in people who were not interested in politics . |
4 | You could say that most winters in Baldersdale are too long , and every time we have a really bad one it takes something away from me in a physical sense . |
5 | ‘ If you went to a summer party in 1970 , ’ said Joanne Brogden , Professor of Fashion at the Royal College of Art , ‘ you could guarantee that most women would be wearing a long ‘ Laura Ashley ’ skirt or dress . |
6 | If , for example , we were to find the same results in the Social Attitudes Survey in the year 2006 , we could assume that these results are conditional upon age . |
7 | The statements could relate to past facts ( i. e. they could mean that those services were provided last season ) or they could relate only to the future ( i.e. that they will be provided next season ) . |
8 | On the other they could indicate that more women are reporting the crime . |
9 | When Mungo got down , he could see that more books were collecting dust under the bed . |
10 | Neither of us could claim that those exchanges have been free of the features that I have just identified . |