Example sentences of "could [adv] [vb infin] [adv prt] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main argument seems to be whether he could morally take up the titles of Head of the Church of England and Defender of the Faith . |
| 2 | The position had been reached where she could not make out the labels on the cans of food she was heating up . |
| 3 | She could not make out the words , but knew instinctively they 'd been uttered by the uncle of her child . |
| 4 | The inquirer could not print out the pages herself at this point as the microcomputer was in use , so they were printed out and passed on to her . |
| 5 | The member States of the Commission could not carry out the duties entrusted to the Commission . |
| 6 | At present it appears that local authorities can draw up individual access arrangements with the new owners , but this is not a satisfactory solution , partly because some authorities may not have the motivation to do so , and partly because they are all very short of money and could not back up the agreements financially . |
| 7 | Secondly , the Government have evaded parliamentary questions by placing the Benefits Agency and other agencies beyond our reach : we could not find out the answers without going through ever more tortuous procedures . |
| 8 | ‘ Thanks , but … if you could just print up the photos for me … ’ |
| 9 | Turning to the north-east , I could just make out the lines of the walls of Siri , the first completely new city to be built by the Muslim conquerors in the Delhi plains . |
| 10 | He could just make out the greens , the fairways and the dunes through which the three dozen surviving professionals would toil tomorrow in search of their own Golden Fleece . |
| 11 | Down below , lost in the mist , he could just make out the holm-oaks and cypresses surrounding the Miletti property , a lugubrious baroque monstrosity built on a shoulder of land jutting out from the steep hillside . |
| 12 | From the tiny amount of light leaking around the door behind me , I could just make out the boards of the platform I stood on , and the first few feet of three narrow walkways emerging from the gloom , one cutting sharply away to my right , another straight ahead and a third branching left off this a few yards along . |
| 13 | Peering closely at the page , though , he thought he could still make out the shapes of the words , or enough shapes to allow a quick and hostile mind to piece together the whole sentence . |
| 14 | The government could always bring in the troops ter load the ships . ’ |
| 15 | Although the sun glinted off its scales , Rincewind could clearly make out the outlines of the branches behind it . |
| 16 | Just as Paul Gascoigne was overcome with emotion at England 's World Cup exit in Italia '90 , Cantona could n't hold back the tears when he was joined on the chat show sofa … by his grandmother . |
| 17 | On another low table by the wall there was an inexpensive stereo unit and some uneven stacks of records ; he could n't make out the details on the posters on the wall above the unit , but they might have been Escher prints . |
| 18 | He heard two men arguing , but with water lapping in his ears he could n't make out the words . |
| 19 | With this she knocked away the snow from the lettering — but then found she could n't make out the words in the dark . |
| 20 | He tried to speak but she could n't make out the words . |
| 21 | Someone was yelling , but Christine could n't make out the words . |
| 22 | The thrust of his invasive tongue was unbelievably erotic … it was frightening , and exciting , and even the grim memory of Mortimer could n't shake off the shivers of reaction in her stomach . |
| 23 | But it was n't actually , it were something else , and people were finding that their goods were repossessed because they could n't keep up the payments . |
| 24 | He could even pick out the dots of furze bushes and stunted yew trees on the steep slopes . |
| 25 | Although it was murky , she felt she could almost pick out the silhouettes of other buildings up there , as if they were constructed on the inside of the dome itself . |
| 26 | Yeah , yeah you could certainly point out the areas that have been of interest to you and perhaps I could follow up with a phone call to er to Peter in the |