Example sentences of "[adj] a [noun] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under this a corporation could be required to , say , build a new hospital , or pay for a motorway , school , nursery , or library . |
| 2 | ( One of the main findings of the pilot phase was that too detailed a specification could lead to impractical or excessive assessment regimes . ) |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Perhaps no society which had surmounted such a trial could consider itself as simply one power amongst many . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | The shadows of a mouse projected upon the wall in such a way could make us believe a monster lurked around the corner . |
| 8 | With a carefully enough computed dimple pattern , such a sheet could show any desired image . |
| 9 | Circumstances could be envisaged in which such a threat could be most material to a woman . |
| 10 | As this suggests , the appeal of such a tune could be seen as a ‘ leftover ’ , an ‘ echo ’ of a bygone era of craftsmanship ; and Adorno recognizes the possibility of this — indeed , he acknowledges that it is precisely in popular music that the category of the ‘ idea ’ ( a relatively independent , memorable element within a totality , a phenomenon more or less abandoned by ‘ serious ’ music ) lives on , and with it a sense of creative spontaneity ( Adorno 1976 : 34–7 ) . |
| 11 | Such a re-examination could be ‘ a landmark in penal history and illumine the course ahead for a generation ’ . |
| 12 | Such a presentation could thus be structured as follows : |
| 13 | Such a Council could also co-operate with institutions which train teachers and take part in the validation of their teacher training courses . |
| 14 | Such a service could act not only as a mediator between users and official agencies , but also deal with those aspects of heroin use that these agencies are unable or unwilling to resolve . |
| 15 | For a health service observer such a home could easily be seen as a failure . |
| 16 | Such a development could have most serious consequences . |
| 17 | As the country is at present face down in the mire , such a development could only have positive benefits for us all . |
| 18 | Such a scene could only take place in The Wedding Present 's dressing room . |
| 19 | Such a case could have arisen if the subsidiary had comprised both ( say ) estate agency and recruitment agency businesses and all the estate agency offices were closed . |
| 20 | The analysis phase may simply be checking whether such a proposal could be expected to provide the function required . |
| 21 | All avenues were explored to see whether such a guarantee could be given by the Americans , but no way of doing so could be found without breaching the US Constitution . |
| 22 | Such a procedure could be extended to provide full spatial and functional modelling . |
| 23 | Such a procedure could be used even for these words . |
| 24 | Jane was angry , not just because he had refused , but because it was unbearable that such a worm could be so successful . |
| 25 | The College itself has warned the County Council that such a camp could undermine security because the I R A could use it as a cover while surveying the staff and premises . |
| 26 | The evidence indicated that all parts of the flying control system had been connected at the time of the accident , and no evidence of a control restriction or jam were found , although such a possibility could not be totally dismissed , given the degree of disruption in some areas . |
| 27 | The fact that such a statue could be produced , and was apparently meaningful to women , shows something of women 's yearning in their religion in a culture which is now deeply conscious of feminist issues . |
| 28 | Solicitors may set up a corporate practice to practice solely outside England and Wales provided that ( a ) this is permitted by local law , ( b ) all the directors and shareholders are solicitors , lawyers of another jurisdiction or members of the Bar of England and Wales acting in accordance with the Overseas Practice Rules of the Bar and ( c ) the practice complies with the Overseas Practice Rules ; but such a company could not practice in England and Wales . |
| 29 | The input for such a reflex could come from a single class of broadly tuned vertical orientation detectors . |
| 30 | It says much for his authority and persuasiveness that such a scheme could have been accepted . |