Example sentences of "[adj] [indef pn] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Hereford was so blocked that nothing could move . |
| 2 | That someone could get half the question right . |
| 3 | Some urinary games are fairly harmless , but I reckon this one could damage your delicate vaginal tissue . |
| 4 | Sensitive use of shading is of obvious importance — to appreciate this one could do little better than study the striking differences in the Charioteer mosaic , from Rudston , E. Yorks. , ( now displayed in the Museum of Transport and Archaeology , Hull ) . |
| 5 | Whether this one could get back on the screen , I do n't know . |
| 6 | Whether this one could get back on the screen , I do n't know . |
| 7 | A book with a title such as this one could have concentrated on narrative and analysis of the political , military , and diplomatic aspects of the Hundred Years War . |
| 8 | She watched his deft slender hands bleached by the light , and knew that this one could have been , should be , some kind of fine and meticulous craftsman , should never have to be wrestling with pipes , floorboards , beams that seemed heavier than he was . |
| 9 | Er , there was a great dispute about what this one could have been , I mean this , what the scenario 's wide , but I think we 'll settle for waste of space . |
| 10 | This one could cause ulcers |
| 11 | Someone filled and lit a chillim and everyone gathered round to smoke it , exchanging , now and then , laconic comments about the boar 's escape , musing about what had happened and how different everything could have been if only luck was with them . |
| 12 | He says Hungary also did n't send a judge — it 's sad no-one could come up with the cash . |
| 13 | The French delegation led by M. Jean Arrivetz of FACS stressed the desirability of using a mnemonic one could say as a word . |
| 14 | They played well together but she was still having difficulty balancing the needs of two children since the younger one could walk and demand a lot of attention . |
| 15 | Either one could discard what the philosopher had said about women and keep the rest — which in fact often meant accepting conceptions of human nature that took the male as paradigm , and trying to demonstrate that women were as fully human as men , or one could argue that the philosopher 's thought formed a system within which the attitude towards women formed an inseparable part ( see Elshtain 's ( 1981 ) discussion of the private-public distinction or Grimshaw ( 1986 ) for the examples of Aristotle and Kant ) , so that it was impossible just to take certain parts and leave the rest . |
| 16 | Aged eighteen months , Léonie read aloud : the little one could say maman , baby , non , I want , bonjour , cat , maison . |
| 17 | Through the pages of hundreds of books , many famous and some unknown , the undying one could trace his passage down the years . |
| 18 | ‘ Or the little 'un could get out of the hole under the stairs , ’ said Sam before he realized . |
| 19 | It made Hari so angry to see the little ones neglected but there was very little anyone could do , poverty was a fact of life in places like World 's End . |
| 20 | Lardner 's volumes were not quite an encyclopedia , since each one could stand on its own : volumes came out at intervals , and buyers do not seem to have been made to subscribe to the whole set . |
| 21 | Each one could form a complete discourse . |
| 22 | They saw her sometimes , watching them from the hillside as they carried peats or hay , wood or baskets of fish that they 'd not sell her ; and each one could feel the chill as she silently vowed vengeance on them all . |
| 23 | Each one could have removed his or her name at any time after the first printing and , indeed , two did . |
| 24 | And the idea is that as we 've done with previous erm , discussions , if each one could come along armed with some information to do with healthy eating , erm , there 's a list on page a hundred and seventeen , that might start you off thinking . |
| 25 | And since a car is probably the second biggest investment you 'll ever make — buying a stolen one could cost you a lot of money ! |
| 26 | For a gentle corrective one could do worse than go back to H.L. Mencken who opined that Alexander Graham Bell — the progenitor of the institution in which Penzias holds sway — and Thomas Alva Edison had done more than any of their contemporaries to add to the sum of life 's damned nuisances . |
| 27 | The truth , she mused , as others had done before her , was an elusive element , and — short of shooting them in the kneecaps , or intermittently holding their heads under water there was little one could do to persuade people to reveal it . |
| 28 | But , if we then , we then considered non air conditioning explanations erm which , I do n't want to go into but there 's all sorts of text that one could mention . |
| 29 | I think for me I love erm er er er I love a challenge , and er I suspect the fact that before I went into it people said it was erm something which was erm absolutely impossible er er and that the their was no way that one could make a go of it erm made it made it made it perhaps all the more challenging to try to prove them wrong . |
| 30 | There is no blueprint that one could lay down but with a on the infinite versatility of God to use and deploy the gifts that we are able to offer to his service . |