Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought to myself , if I could only get that back to 2020 , how much would it be worth ! |
| 2 | In practice , children under the age of eight are rarely called as witnesses and judges still follow a 1958 House of Lords ruling that a jury could not attach any importance to the evidence of a child of five . |
| 3 | And even now , after Dr Neil 's healing influence , daily exerted , for although he could not make direct love to her he was able to let her know in a thousand different ways how much he loved her , and how precious she was to him , she still felt the odd shudder of shame and fear . |
| 4 | James Watt realised that steam engines as they then existed could not create enough power to be truly economical . |
| 5 | As the guest calling himself Mr Smythe did not have legal title to the cheque , he could not give legal title to the hotelier ; therefore , the cheque would not be paid and the hotelier would suffer the loss . |
| 6 | The fact was that distrust of Chamberlain ran so deep that even the most unequivocal supporter of rearmament in the labour movement could not give unreserved support to his Government 's military preparations . |
| 7 | Liechtenstein would now need a modification in the legal basis of its relationship with its Swiss neighbour ; under the 1923 agreement creating a customs union , it could not join any treaty to which Switzerland did not also adhere . |
| 8 | Once they had established that all men were equal before God and that all men were theoretically capable of finding out , for themselves , what God demanded of them , they could not confine that principle to the religious sphere , no matter how much they may have wanted to . |
| 9 | He would be wasted because we could not get enough ball to him . |
| 10 | Accordingly , the simple statement of the law that the maximum duration of a term must be certainly known in advance of its taking effect could not have direct reference to periodic tenancies … |
| 11 | But the SPD could now find little alternative to Kohl 's policy of welcoming the SED 's demise , allowing refugees in from the East and exploring possible routes to German reunification . |
| 12 | These ‘ achievements ’ provided the basis on which Hitler , more than any politician before him , had been able to integrate not only the German middle classes , but the vast majority of the population who , on particular aspects of policy , could often reveal heated antagonism to the specific manifestations of Nazi rule affecting their daily lives . |
| 13 | Very few athletes enter sport without the assistance and encouragement of a teacher who might innocently create serious tensions , as with Jackie Jackson , whose PE teacher strengthened her commitment to athletics , a commitment which proved destructive to her educational aims , as she pointed out : ‘ I was spending so much time in athletics that I could n't give enough time to my ‘ A ’ levels . ’ |
| 14 | Next month he planned to retire from the army , but says he could n't resist this call to duty . |
| 15 | But he could n't see that happening to Henry . |
| 16 | One could well direct that question to the Labour party . |
| 17 | This was roundly rejected by the Cork Committee who considered that the wrong done to individual creditors could well outweigh any prejudice to the community in depriving the Crown of its preference . |
| 18 | He could then give some thought to the inequities of the council tax , so called , which is the nasty twin brother of the poll tax and which will leave debris — caused by the Prime Minister and the Conservative party — all over the country . |