Example sentences of "[adj] [art] [noun sg] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is that the , is that the limit could anything heavier than that |
| 2 | More generally , and more importantly , this was a classic case in which it was possible the jury could be tempted to convict W by association with his co-accused against whom the evidence was stronger . |
| 3 | It is possible the discovery could be part of Middle Eastern terrorism — two months ago a terrorist was blown up by his own bomb in a London hotel in an incident later linked to the Satanic Verses affair . |
| 4 | If this was not forthcoming , then there was little the headteacher could do to encourage training . |
| 5 | Both arrived poste-haste , but there was little the doctor could do . |
| 6 | The commercial men resented thus having to create a negative image of their product , but this was the least the industry could do to allay government criticism that they were expanding more rapidly than resources allowed . |
| 7 | Lord Lane said it was clear the public could be excluded from court only if it was strictly necessary . |
| 8 | Now it 's clear the company could n't rise about the recession . |
| 9 | This , dear reader , is just the tiniest tip of an absolutely enormo iceberg : there 's heaps more stuff about the macabre , the theatrical and the perverted ; the awkward , the romantic and Suede 's ‘ extraordinary intensity ’ ; not to mention fairground mirrors and all the other fevered topics of conversation and how Suede are so quintessentially English the term could have been invented for them . |
| 10 | In this situation , between 1982 and 1985 the army could pursue a civil war with the Buganda of whom 150,000 were killed in the Luweru Triangle , which forms the heartland of Buganda . |
| 11 | As one day followed another the garrison could not help wondering what was going on behind the Collector 's closed door . |
| 12 | Under this a corporation could be required to , say , build a new hospital , or pay for a motorway , school , nursery , or library . |
| 13 | ( One of the main findings of the pilot phase was that too detailed a specification could lead to impractical or excessive assessment regimes . ) |
| 14 | How do you mean when I was young , Douglas , I 'm not old now , not so old a dog could n't teach a young pup like you a few new tricks . |
| 15 | ‘ Anybody with half an eye could tell that . ’ |
| 16 | On 26 September 1985 an investor could have purchased BP shares for 526p ( end of trading mid-price ) and some 6 weeks later on 11 November sold that same share for 560p . |
| 17 | The CIA also added a cautionary reminder that the policies of even so reliable an ally could change unless it was adequately supported and encouraged . |
| 18 | In 1892 the Headmaster could announce that " twice as many honours and distinctions and just over twice as many certificates as last year have been gained . |
| 19 | The trouble was , it should never have been parked in that corner in the first place , so there was n't much the owner could say , apart from making the air blue for half an hour or so . |
| 20 | The need for the recommendation of a high-ranking scholar provided a control on the quality of the intake-as long , of course , as the scholar were reasonably honest-while the quantity could be controlled by altering a number of factors , for example , the period at which the regular investiture took place , the number of ceremonial occasions on which special investitures might occur or the number of students the holder of any given office might invest as Interesting , though extremely belated , attempts to control both the quality and the quantity of are represented by two decrees of the year 1715 , by which time the system had very nearly completely broken down . |
| 21 | At the general election of 1929 the landlady could be heard telling a Tory canvasser that everyone in the house would vote Conservative and Ramsey said forcibly that he was voting Labour ( there was no Liberal candidate ) . |
| 22 | Nor was it the disturbing rumours that by December 26 the country could be in the grip of a new and particularly alien ‘ Made in Taiwan ’ midwinter flu . |
| 23 | The police had realised how serious the incident could be , and managed to find Robert before he was physically harmed . |
| 24 | They got another example of how dangerous the Headmistress could be on the very next day . |
| 25 | The conventional explanation of the coalition 's commitment to provide ‘ a high and stable level of employment after the war ’ is that men in positions of power were convinced the aim could be achieved by a policy of managing effective demand , as advocated by Keynes and his supporters . |
| 26 | Perhaps no society which had surmounted such a trial could consider itself as simply one power amongst many . |
| 27 | But there are several billion people in the world to whom such a coincidence could happen , so the apparent coincidence is actually not as great as it seems . |
| 28 | He made such thorough notes that it was then no great labour to produce a similar Biographical Register for Cambridge ( 1963 ) — in 1958 he estimated that such a work could be completed within eighteen months — and a more summary Survey of Dominicans in England , based on the Ordination Lists in Episcopal Registers ( 1268–1538 ) ( Rome , 1967 ) . |
| 29 | The shadows of a mouse projected upon the wall in such a way could make us believe a monster lurked around the corner . |
| 30 | With a carefully enough computed dimple pattern , such a sheet could show any desired image . |