Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [noun sg] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It terrified her , that she could so lose control in the arms of this man who was everything she despised , who despised her , who wanted her for what he thought she was . |
| 2 | Such a scene could only take place in The Wedding Present 's dressing room . |
| 3 | At the time of the research , children could generally find employment in the area without leaving home . |
| 4 | It is one of civil politeness with the inn keeper realising that he could not beat Turnour in a fight and so he is prepared to bend under Turnour 's will as shown by his ‘ almost ’ friendliness when telling Turnour about his house and his asking of when Turnour would like to eat . |
| 5 | But Maher could not ride Craganour in the Derby as he had been claimed for Lord Rosebery 's Prue , and the favourite was partnered by the American jockey Johnny Reiff . |
| 6 | These groups might enter into semi-permanent contracts with academics who had similar interests , and develop rules about who could and could not take part in a ‘ course ’ in a particular ‘ subject ’ and how that ‘ course ’ should be conducted . |
| 7 | Morality could not take precedence in the determination of foreign policy because of structural differences between the setting for individual behaviour and the setting for international behaviour . |
| 8 | He could not take refuge in a timely snooze . |
| 9 | In Re Peachdart ( 1983 Ch.D. ) the sellers of leather which the buyers then made into handbags could reserve title in the leather which they supplied but could not reserve title in the handbags which were newly created goods . |
| 10 | In this state the electron could not radiate energy in the form of electromagnetic waves because there would be no lower energy state for it to go to . |
| 11 | A reserve of justice remained with the King , and so those who could not get relief in the King 's ordinary courts might , with some hope of success , petition the King and his Council for redress , if not as a matter of right at least as a favour . |
| 12 | Young men who could easily find work in the East Anglian villages during the peak periods of the farming year — haysel and corn harvest — were dismissed by farmers after the harvest , and often spent the whole winter hanging about without work and without any form of subsistence except the parish or the charity of their family . |
| 13 | The mud which held so tenaciously could also give way in a moment , if conditions altered . |
| 14 | He could n't tell direction in the fog . |
| 15 | He could n't see curvature in the third dimension . |
| 16 | I ca n't remember the wages they paid us but we could n't get work in the shops anyway . |
| 17 | There was a woman called Wilkinson who could n't keep order in a birdcage . |
| 18 | The professional development of future teachers could then take place in the classroom . |
| 19 | Old fair hands could doubtless see order in the chaos , the separate camps of the different families within the larger camp . |