Example sentences of "could [vb infin] that [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before leaving the question on the nationality requirement , I would also point out in passing that , at the hearing , the Commission agreed that the flag state could stipulate that the captain of the vessel and the mate should have its nationality . |
| 2 | Either way , someone could recognise that the man at the receiving end of her hysteria was Vitor d'Arcos , and inform the media . |
| 3 | They could also describe children being sent individually or in small groups , to forage for information on particular topics , and in the case of the school which monitored library use , the school could demonstrate that the range of subjects thus represented was considerable . |
| 4 | No one could doubt that the application of the academic mind to literature has been salutary in bringing rigour and discipline into criticism : cleaner texts , scholarly annotations , precise analysis , intelligent — even transforming — interpretations and readings ; and an intolerance for woolly emotional responses , vague inflated recommendations , and subjective wallowings of all kinds . |
| 5 | Even now , Marie could sense that the stranglehold of her rage had been broken . |
| 6 | From the study of Larsson et al , it could appear that the number of enterochromaffin like cells would increase infinitely with the gastrin concentration . |
| 7 | The industrial tribunal found that the reason for the dismissals was that the managing director was strongly anti-union but that none of the four could show that the reason for his dismissal was his own union membership or activities . |
| 8 | But unless we could ensure that the voice of the people — fresh , urgent and heartfelt — somehow entered the hallowed inquiry chamber , with its unwritten rules and legalistic jargon , we would get stuck in a morass of procedure and paperwork where only the strong , and barristers , could possibly survive . |
| 9 | The fact of union , coupled with its repeated reaffirmation , has resulted in a position where only a blind man could assume that the power of the Westminster Parliament to sever it was so well established in general acquiescence that none would deny the propriety of its exercise . |
| 10 | Once at least he could feel that a sermon of his moved his hearers . |
| 11 | I could feel that the problem with David was very much a tremendous lack of application . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | After they had been searching and moving on quietly for some time , they reached a place from which they could see that the field below them broadened out . |
| 14 | Cecilia could see that the man with the bear held it by a chain looped round its neck . |
| 15 | He could see that the flap of cloth gaped open , but in the dark could make out no more than the vague shape of her legs , her stomach . |
| 16 | But I could see that the moon above my head was really on the wane . |
| 17 | You could see that the pain of standing was more than it could bear , and it struggled to be allowed to collapse again but the owners made it walk : led it away stumbling on three legs with the fourth jutting out sideways . |
| 18 | Although most of the scientific jottings meant little to him , Dalgliesh could see that the time at which Lorrimer had started and finished each analysis had been carefully noted . |
| 19 | Even at this distance , in the gloom , I could see that the thing on its head that looked like a plastic bucket actually was a plastic bucket . |
| 20 | From the window I could see that the block on the far side to the right had had most of its front ripped off , and Eliot commented how odd and rather disturbing it was to see a bath on an upper storey sticking out into the void , as in a surrealist picture . |
| 21 | We could see that the health of the person is directly tied in with the health of the planet . ’ |
| 22 | 1.2 Extension of the principles In recent years there has been an extension of the principles behind the restraint of trade doctrine so as to embrace : ( a ) restraints in contracts which do not fit neatly into what was hitherto regarded as amounting to a restraint of trade ; ( b ) situations where the contract in question was not between the plaintiff and defendant and to which the plaintiff was not privy although he was affected by the working of the contract ; and ( c ) situations when no contract existed at all but the plaintiff could claim that a set of rules or certain conduct affected him prejudicially . |
| 23 | Jesus was designated as Messiah or ‘ Christed ’ by the coming of the Spirit to rest upon him , and he could claim that the prophecy of Isaiah 61:1 had been fulfilled — ‘ He has anointed me ( echrisen ) to preach the good news ’ ( Luke 4:18 ) . |
| 24 | Once Wordsworth could believe that the sound of angels ' wings comforted childhood sleep but now , thanks to Dr Freud , the belief is that childhood imagination is an extended video nasty , with unacknowledged lusts and cravings giving way to fantasies of violence and the visitation of mutants . |
| 25 | From experiments of this type , done with very simple apparatus , Griffith could deduce that the strength of the glass he was using ( at room temperature ) ought to be nearly 2,000,000 p.s.i . |
| 26 | That discretion would not be exercised reasonably if no reasonable Minister could conclude that the issuing of the warrant was necessary in the interests of national security or for the prevention or detection of crime . |
| 27 | Since there is such a difference between the two documents , and since the Dunrossness District Plan was designed for immediate public consumption ( the Structurn Plan had not been disseminated widely at the time of our research , June , 1978 — January , 1979 ) one could suggest that the tenor of the document reflects the desire to underplay any potential conflicts between Shetlanders and incomers . |
| 28 | That is to say , one could detect that the person in blue somewhere to one 's left was almost certainly one 's wife . |
| 29 | In the context of educational provisions this could imply that a school in such an area should be allowed to have a very high unit cost . |
| 30 | Indeed , the possible conjunction of the northern Anglian princes and Domnall Brecc in the same area could imply that an alliance between Angles and Scots or at least concerted action between them was the key to Anglian success in north Britain in the reign of Oswald . |