Example sentences of "could [adv] [vb infin] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( b ) Where however the prosecution evidence is such that its strength or weakness depends on the view to be taken of a witness 's reliability , or other matters which are generally speaking within the province of the jury and where on one possible view of the facts there is evidence upon which a jury could properly come to the conclusion that the defendant is guilty , then the judge should allow the matter to be tried by the jury . |
| 2 | At this stage in the study , there were still many questions unanswered about detailed aspects of the new legislation , and it was also necessary to find out more about College activities and functions , particularly those that could eventually contribute to the exercise of balancing costs with income . |
| 3 | If you could let me know the publisher of the patterns and the numbers I could perhaps write to the publisher for copies . |
| 4 | Hirst ( 1981:p. 55 ) reports that informants agreed that ‘ it ’ could only refer to the wine , and not to the table . |
| 5 | The structures of the Pentateuch were good but a stable and wealthy economic society could only flourish to the extent that Israel was obedient to the whole of the law and its commandment . |
| 6 | He sought to show how the laws imposed by certain countries to attract internationally mobile inward investment could only operate to the detriment of other states . |
| 7 | I could not go to the Hall earlier that day . ’ |
| 8 | The letter must have said that she could not go to the Mansion again . |
| 9 | Lachlan was being left in charge of the castle , and Lady Marion could not go to the ceremony , for the baby was near its time . |
| 10 | Blanche could not go to the hospital herself . |
| 11 | Why was it right to train a fellow and you knew , or you felt that , you could not go to the flight commander or the wing commander and say a think this fellow should go down the pits , " or a think we should remuster him to the Army or the Navy " . |
| 12 | Cards could not talk to the divinator . |
| 13 | The man dropped the tiny fraction of the cigarette that he could not smoke to the ground , letting the last acrid smoulder of it rise in the air . |
| 14 | Something that was not form , but was only matter , could not become general in this way and could not answer to the generality of the concepts with which we think . |
| 15 | Sam Corry and his medics carried the wounded who could not walk to the top of the rock above the landing beach , to which they were then lowered , down the rock face , on stretchers . |
| 16 | She could not walk to the block , so the executioner helped her . |
| 17 | Other prisoners said that in Keraterm — a notorious PoW camp which they dubbed Auschwitz — prisoners were crippled by having the ligaments in a knee cut out and tied in a knot so they could not return to the fighting . |
| 18 | Many disabled people could not travel to the polling station , and few knew beforehand whether it was accessible , or even whether they could get into the booths . |
| 19 | Clara could not explain to the school that it was not so much a question of finance , as of her mother 's instinctive opposition to any pleasurable project — and anyone could see that a visit to Paris could not possibly fail to entail more pleasure than instruction . |
| 20 | For , of course , you could not see to the foot of the hill , let alone seven counties , under the stars . |
| 21 | Having decided that Rome had to be treated as a member of the civilized community of the Greek world they could not apply to the study of Roman life those methods which they used , very competently , to describe barbarians . |
| 22 | The registrar granted the administrators leave to serve the originating application on the bank in Jersey pursuant to rule 12.12 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 Mervyn Davies J. granted the bank 's application to set aside the registrar 's order , holding that section 238 of the Act of 1986 did not have extraterritorial effect so as to include a foreigner resident abroad , and that ‘ any person ’ in the section could not apply to the bank . |
| 23 | In Donovan a girl could not consent to the infliction of six or seven weals on her bottom . |
| 24 | Inwardly she chafed a little that she too could not take to the ice and show this country maid a quicksilver pair of heels . |
| 25 | The king and the earls could not agree to the form of the safe-conduct , and Lancaster stayed away . |
| 26 | For most other mutant genes that Stern studied in this way , the abnormality in structure could best be explained by supposing that cells could not respond to the prepattern , rather than that the prepattern itself had changed . |
| 27 | What imagination anywhere could not respond to the image of strangers galloping hard on a moonswept night towards such high turrets ? |
| 28 | On the slopes of Everest there are believed to be at least a dozen bodies of climbers who could not get to the top , or could not get down again . |
| 29 | I need crutches to get around the house and could not get to the concert , ’ she said . |
| 30 | Gibbs did so and Harvey went out to drive , but with his injured leg could not get to the pitch and holed out to Sobers . |