Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interviewer is trying to find out if you left your last job for reasons which could pose similar problems if you came to work with his/her firm . |
| 2 | Suddenly , for reasons she could not explain , Marie felt like crying too , like the baby in the pushchair … . |
| 3 | She went to her pool but , for reasons she could n't comprehend , felt powerfully disinclined to idle sensually in the water . |
| 4 | For hours I could n't put those dreadful cries out of my mind and I imagined that with every breath my own stomach was swelling and about to burst . |
| 5 | ‘ So they are bitter about proposals which could leave them without a future . |
| 6 | The findings should provide the basis for proposals which could improve the GP-Patient consultation . |
| 7 | Within the year there was money made available for projects which could take the broad skills of a science like genetic manipulation and give them a saleable medical application . |
| 8 | Congress duly approved funding of $200 million , but subsequently objected to the Defense Department 's initial proposals for projects which could be supported by it . |
| 9 | At Rome in the 250s a split occurred between the rigorists led by Novatian who believed that for apostates there could be no restoration in this life , and those who saw no restriction in the Lord 's committal of the power of the keys to bind and loose . |
| 10 | So obsessive was his craving for goals he could put us one up or one down at any minute ! |
| 11 | Employers of young engineers face a double dilemma : a declining proportion of a reducing population opting for subjects which could lead to qualifications in science , technology and engineering . |
| 12 | THE Duchess of York has had her armed police bodyguards restored after fears she could become an IRA target . |
| 13 | A tourist video has been withdrawn from sale after fears it could threaten the safety of children . |
| 14 | ‘ After Jaws I could have pissed in a pot and they would have paid me something , ’ he says . |
| 15 | These meetings were originally suggested during the 1860s as a solution for visitors who could not manage to visit individual homes regularly enough . |
| 16 | For example , in Littlewoods Organisation Ltd v Harris [ 1978 ] 1 All ER 1026 Megaw LJ said : … it is appropriate that a covenant , restricting an employee from full freedom of taking other employment when he leaves his existing employment , should be included in the contract of employment where there is a real danger that the employee will in the course of that employment have access to and gain information about matters which could fairly be regarded as trade secrets ; and that applies even though the information may be carried in his head and even though ( perhaps , particularly though ) it may be extremely difficult for the employee himself , being an honest and scrupulous man , to realise that what he is passing on to his new employers is matter which ought to be treated as confidential to his old employers . |
| 17 | Having discussed the above ideas for the sites in an area , various analyses can then be tried out to examine the relationships between settlements which could have interesting and important implications . |
| 18 | What might be a set of values which could be useful ? |
| 19 | Red Hot And Dance is a quasi-record of that day : an uneasy cocktail of blipvert public information and fairly lifeless live shots of acts who could loosely be classified ‘ dance ’ . |
| 20 | In addition some 20 items , including platinum , raw jute , and floppy diskettes for computers , were removed from the list of products which could only be imported by a government agency . |
| 21 | As a book of essays it could be important too . |
| 22 | They produced an extremely effective report , which identified a large number of projects which could usefully be established to help Lanarkshire . |
| 23 | His leg thrust into the volume of her skirts so that it was hard against her pelvis , and even through the multitude of petticoats she could feel the hard , rigid evidence of his ungovernable arousal as he straddled her thigh . |
| 24 | As the principal ratepayers in the locality — even after the de-rating of agricultural land in 1927 — they pursued a low rateflow expenditure policy and therefore were extremely reluctant to commit local authority expenditure to the building of houses which could become a burden on the rates . |
| 25 | There are a number of activities you could record . |
| 26 | There was no clear theory of jurisdiction and it was impossible to draw up a set of rules which could be used to predict when the courts would intervene . |
| 27 | There was , however , a greater awareness of the need to develop a framework of rules which could operate in the interests of the world community as a whole — against terrorism or narcotics , for instance — and a greater readiness to establish relations with traditionally conservative states , such as the Arab monarchies , as well as with those that claimed to adhere to Marxism-Leninism . |
| 28 | If you deploy with a unit of Orcs you could put a unit of Black Orcs next to them , then Goblins , then Trolls , then more Orcs , and there will be no two animosity-suffering units next to each other . |
| 29 | The thing was , they were playing blues in both major and minor keys , and I was feeling very tied down by the number of notes I could reach in my major open tunings . |
| 30 | We , we , we , I suppose it 'd be like two levels , that in the majority of cases we could say we recommend that you do not issue a licence . |