Example sentences of "could [adv] [adv] [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry , therefore , asked Clement to establish a decretal commission , authorizing the cardinal and papal legate , Thomas Wolsey , to make a judgment on the case in England , where he could most easily influence the outcome . |
| 2 | Furious that a rare kind word from Nathan Bryce could so easily demolish the façade of efficiency and confidence she had worked so desperately hard to maintain , she blinked hard and sucked in a deep breath . |
| 3 | Last year there were some , so the Liberal Democrats took the view that we could only properly set a budget at the capping level and that is a level at which we set our budget and it was a level at which we set our budget back in December and right through to this date . |
| 4 | He could only just reach the handle to close the door behind him . |
| 5 | ‘ I was so cold I could only just press the stop button . |
| 6 | His head turned , and although she could only just see the shadow of his eyes she knew he was looking at her . |
| 7 | Patrick and Jim could only just overhear the conversation that ensued , in quick-fire French . |
| 8 | He could only really recapture the timbre if he had laryngitis when the time came for shooting . |
| 9 | He did this by bringing a camera up to his face , through which he could nevertheless still see the tiger 's actions . |
| 10 | What they wanted to provide very rarely brought expenditure close to this ceiling , so they had little problem in deciding whether the project could or could not cost-effectively support a client ( see Chapter Six for further details of the cost of care ) . |
| 11 | This type of committee was modelled on the Select Committee on Nationalized Industries which had been set up in 1955 because it was felt that Parliament could not adequately control the range of corporations it had created . |
| 12 | The demonstrations were indeed provoked and begun with M16 and CIA money — no one knows how much was spent — but money alone could not adequately explain the way in which the protests rushed so fast through the city . |
| 13 | For the WEA , Green , Elvin , and Jacques could not adequately counter the authenticity of these claims nor deny the earlier co-operation in developments in all three counties . |
| 14 | Although training and experience had made Nancy an expert liar , she could not completely hide the fear in her mind . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , all this could not completely conceal the tension . |
| 16 | Felicity could not easily attend the lunch as her status was indeterminate ; and she had no wish ‘ to break bread , or even to take wine ’ with the Party 's local professionals . |
| 17 | It would have to be another lesson learned the hard way , but she could not easily push the thought of him away and she knew she never would . |
| 18 | They could not easily accept a return to old party cries or the need to oppose men who had become close friends . |
| 19 | Yet even the most productive thoughts and even the bravest of responses to the new dimensions of my predicament could not wholly keep the chill out of my bones or push away the icier gloom from above my head . |
| 20 | She could not exactly deny the existence of what she thought of as the stranger within . |
| 21 | Mistrust of a solicitor had to be based on tangible fact , and could not simply reflect a suspicion of the profession in general . |
| 22 | The British , however , could not simply leave the matter there . |
| 23 | Well , I could not simply shake the chairman by the hand so warmly proffered . |
| 24 | She had lost her cap , and so could not again conceal the glory of her hidden beauty , but she twisted the plait in a knot behind her head and clipped it there as best she could with the two pins she had found , so that it resembled the thick queue of a man 's old-fashioned wig . |
| 25 | Strangely , they could not clearly discern the engine in detail , for the haze still surrounded it . |
| 26 | It is ’ , she specified , as if Miss Logan could not otherwise understand the matter , ‘ approximately half the size of Green Park in London . |
| 27 | The privy Council held that although the Minister was not bound to disclose his reasons , he could not thereby render the company 's right of appeal nugatory . |
| 28 | Second , against the prevailing liberal optimism of their time , they argued that the transition to an industrialized society with a system of representative democracy could not fundamentally alter the stratification of society into a ruling elite and a mass . |
| 29 | Mr Parry said that his client had been unemployed for 13 years , unbelievably he had been sent on a computer course to Wrexham , and he could not even switch the computer on . |
| 30 | Mr Parry said that his client had been unemployed for 13 years , unbelievably he had been sent on a computer course to Wrexham , and he could not even switch the computer on.A 17-year-old youth made a remark and the offence was committed . |