Example sentences of "could [adv] [vb infin] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The belief that democracy meant government by the people , or at least by their accountable representatives , was premised on the assumption that governmental power was the power in society , that politics dominated over social and economic life , and that no factional power or interest group could successfully resist the legitimate might of the popular will . |
| 2 | She was eager to mingle with the other guests , but had been carefully primed by Stephen that morning to wait until they could politely leave the prime Minister and his wife . |
| 3 | Not even bureaucrats could wholly ignore the prevailing atmosphere of intellectual excitement . |
| 4 | By denying that we could empirically identify the linguistic framework employed by other agents ( or , indeed by ourselves ) , Quine challenged the claim that we can have a substantive prior conception of truth which can be used to formulate questions for transcendental reflection . |
| 5 | To test for this intention we would have to establish whether he would act as he did in situations where he had no reason to believe that he could thereby induce the false belief in question . |
| 6 | If we pumped long enough we could eventually bring the potentiometric surface below the top of the aquifer . |
| 7 | For example , you could create the design for a simple piece of embroidery using small sprays of pressed flowers , or make an initial design from pressed flowers that could be transferred on to squared paper and used to embroider a handkerchief Both of these ideas would make marvellous presents , and you could perhaps place the finished embroidery in a tissue-lined box that has been decorated with pressed flowers or ribbons . |
| 8 | They could perhaps join the growing band of pundits . |
| 9 | Such confrontation could so interrupt the subconscious flow that he would , in fact , be brought back with a jolt to the present time and would be unable to continue with the regression at all . |
| 10 | Yes , I do enjoy living here , but it 's very different from England and , I must admit , there are times when I miss things back home so much I could literally grab the first plane out of here . ’ |
| 11 | Now , in the absence of ordeal , they could only await the final vindication of their cause in heaven . |
| 12 | Population was increasing , trade and industry growing ; it was an expanding economy with wonderful new opportunities for making money if one could only strike the right spot . |
| 13 | Although he made a partial recovery in 1926 , he could only conduct the One-Year course at Wells , where he lived . |
| 14 | That could only prevent the sheer miracle of grace from standing as it must on its own as God 's free and loving initiative and movement towards us . |
| 15 | Some studies stated quite explicitly that they had chosen to study young men only because they felt that as male ethnographers they could only portray the male point of view . |
| 16 | Even for those most deeply committed to the official view , these revelations could only reopen the vexed question of why the Scottish police and the FBI had changed their minds so comprehensively after claiming for at least 18 months that the bombing had been carried out by Ahmed Jibril 's PFLP — GC at the instigation of Iran and Syria . |
| 17 | The darkness was almost complete now ; she could only see the faintest outline of his features , enough to know that they 'd taken on a hard , determined cast . |
| 18 | Behaviour motivated by such economic criteria , it was argued , could only harm the doctor-patient relationship . |
| 19 | He could only hear the distant sound of police whistles , screaming for help . |
| 20 | Aulén makes the telling point that no amount of legalism or rationalism could entirely destroy the Divine Drama , because the mythology of the Great Battle is too dominant in the New Testament to be suppressed . |
| 21 | Leaders of the ( banned ) Nepali Congress suggested as a compromise that the King could personally head the interim government , but the King declined such direct political involvement . |
| 22 | Whereas this practice was widespread in the UK , it was banned in most other EC member states ; UK observers noted that its abolition in the UK would force UK institutions to double their cash holdings , a factor which they said would raise costs and which could thus jeopardize the dominant position of the London market in European equity trading ( see also p. 36494 ) . |
| 23 | I could already feel the rubber hosepipe . |
| 24 | Blindly she moved forward , panic crashing now through every barrier she had managed , through her twenty precarious years , to erect against it , flooding her whole mind , sweeping away her sense of reason and reality , so that she could already feel the coarse fustian of prison clothing and workhouse clothing against her body as she ran , could feel her skin crawl from every one of prison 's basic indignities , her stomach heave with revulsion . |
| 25 | Here the counts rubbed in their superiority by appointing prévôts in each castellany to collect comital dues , and by taking direct homage from the knights of the castle ; therefore the castellan could scarcely forget the conditional nature of his tenure . |
| 26 | But there are several others , fast-moving , market-responsive operations which could soon make the present notion of the UK publishers ' market share look a little dated . |
| 27 | Food : The test of a true boar : British gourmets could soon go the whole hog , writes Henrietta Green |
| 28 | A self adhesive stamp is now undergoing a six month trial — and the signs are it could soon have the traditional postage stamp licked . |
| 29 | But she could not disregard the friendly warmth of his arms that held her safe from herself until , impossibly , she fell asleep . |
| 30 | If the captives could not speak the same language , reasoned the slavers , they were unlikely to organize effective opposition . |