Example sentences of "[noun sg] [indef pn] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If we had lost a single segment everyone could have been killed , ’ Mackenzie says . |
| 2 | If we had been 6-0 up at half-time no-one could have complained . |
| 3 | On the positive side one could cite the wider political knowledge acquired by a territory invaded on all sides during 1917–21 , so that at least the many peasants , caught up in military life , like our travelling soldier , might acquire broader interests . |
| 4 | In terms of emotion one could use a grammatical analogy ( see Bolton , 1978 ) that the ‘ occurring ’ emotion expressed by a participant is a verb , whereas the emotion portrayed by a performer is descriptive , an adjective , no less . |
| 5 | Hence from using a dictionary one could determine that hot dog bears little relation to canines . |
| 6 | This is the best equation one could use to forecast the current value of that is given knowledge of the current composite disturbance , and is therefore the one which rational agents will use to forecast given their information . |
| 7 | That strength of mind one could sense below the surface , that glow of authority that seemed to radiate from his skin . |
| 8 | ‘ You 're the most marvellous lover anyone could wish for . |
| 9 | ‘ She did n't utter any reproach , but her face was the greatest reproach anyone could make . ’ |
| 10 | It would still have been very difficult to explain to the Indians that they were selling their land in perpetuity , and of course nobody could have had any idea of the immense flood of immigrants that was going to cross the Atlantic . |
| 11 | In battle none could stand against them , for the Dragon Princes of Caledor were fearsome mages as well as mighty warriors , and their steeds were terrible to behold . |
| 12 | But that evening nothing could touch me . |
| 13 | In the surprise-hushed room everyone could hear Carter 's whimpers . |
| 14 | ‘ The path between the car park and the sports centre is quite dark and I imagine it 's the sort of place someone could lie in wait . ’ |
| 15 | He chose a five percent discount rate table and in my opinion nobody could fault such a choice . |
| 16 | ‘ Penman said just now that there was a river down there , beyond the garden , and that if one climbed the hill one could see the sea . |
| 17 | Very often in the evening one could hear mysterious melodies issuing from some hidden corner of a hangar or a deserted office — Sheila and Matthew having a flute practice . |
| 18 | In relation to agriculture one could draw up an " economic " budget . |
| 19 | ’ He is the most agreeable seawolf one could wish to meet with , ’ wrote one enraptured Parisienne to a friend . |
| 20 | In this case one could argue that I and Thou automatically imply We , since the two of us are sharing between ourselves the field of discourse . |
| 21 | If the song is a modern piece , the front sheet may well be a photograph or picture , in which case one could pick a passage from the music itself and decorate that to highlight particular words or phrases . |
| 22 | Standing anywhere on the ridge one could catch sight of the sun delicately resting on the top of the distant hills which marked the far end of the grazing plains . |
| 23 | Alongside the wall a narrow path wound between waist-high nettles to a small structure whose function one could guess at . |
| 24 | When one day nobody could rouse him from his trailer , it was Lee Marvin who entered quietly and found a sombre , lonely , sad man . |
| 25 | From the drawing or painting of a real aquarium one could go on to an imagined aquarium and allow the children to invent fishes of their own design and colour , and other water creatures , shells , etc . |
| 26 | From Reading station one could set off round the world . |
| 27 | In relation to family behaviour one could argue that since this matter has been little regulated no privatization can take place . |
| 28 | You could be passing up the chance to obtain the most loving , loyal friend anyone could wish for . |
| 29 | Even had it been the best apple tree anyone could knit I can not see that I would hang swing tickets on it ( so badly coloured with felt tip pen that the Infant 's class would be ashamed of the work ! ) . |
| 30 | If the road network of an area is taken as an example one could envisage it as a set of nodes ( representing junctions ) and links ( the section of road between two junctions ) . |