Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , people who are unfamiliar with keyboards could choose instead to interact with the computer using their normal handwriting . |
| 2 | People who are unfamiliar with keyboards could choose instead to interact with the computer using their normal handwriting . |
| 3 | For example , people who are unfamiliar with keyboards could choose instead to interact with the computer using their normal handwriting . |
| 4 | What is acceptable in Italy could be seen as vulgar in the Netherlands or Sweden . |
| 5 | Women & children were set free from slavery & the men unemployed from farming could move to mines & take up jobs which the women & children had previously filled . |
| 6 | The extraordinary generation of NO induced by endotoxin could explain the absence of motor activity that usually occurs in association with gall bladder infection . |
| 7 | William Agnew 's splendid efforts on behalf of the deaf of Glasgow could not have been entirely successful without the support he received from a number of other deaf individuals . |
| 8 | But pitfalls remain ; for example , a putative brachiopod-like shell from the lower Cambrian of Irkutsk could be a percussion fracture formed when the drill core was broken open , a telling illustration of the difficulties sometimes incurred in interpreting problematic fossils . |
| 9 | So voice settings typical of Creole could still , in theory , characterise the speech even of the younger generation of the Caribbean community in London . |
| 10 | Leelo Ross , a large woman who claims Lancastrian origins ( although it seemed highly unlikely that black pudding could be blamed on her proportions ) gave the audience an insight into among other things the ‘ Modern Jewish Woman ’ including driving Jewish style ; and the laconic Dembina delved deep to prove that even the most serious of subjects could be a source of humour . |
| 11 | Jaq doubted that even the most towering of storms could engulf the uppermost reaches of Vasilariov . |
| 12 | The tasks of reconstruction were perceived as equally urgent in the period 1939–45 , even if the rhetoric of building a land fit for heroes could not be plausibly employed for a second time . |
| 13 | The policy regarding transfusion of red cells was as previously described ; staff present at delivery could not be blinded to the treatment group but were seldom responsible for ordering transfusion . |
| 14 | In consequence , the land naturally most amenable for agricultural intensification ( by cultivation , drainage of wetlands , fertilisers , etc. ) where losses of habitats important for wildlife could be greatest , receives the least state ( and EEC ) agricultural support . |
| 15 | Making non-exempt dental patients pay in full for treatment could raise nearly £200m a year ; so could charges of £10 a day for stays in hospital . |
| 16 | ( You shoot for three weeks , he points out , and three weeks later your work is being distributed to an audience larger than any cinema film short of Batman could hope to reach . ) |
| 17 | In twenty years time this field full of weeds could well be supporting a wealth of wildflowers . |
| 18 | for no one concerned with education could deny that , in teaching , teachers are looking to the future of the child . |
| 19 | Being important in Spiderglass could terminally damage her health and the best way to avoid that was to show she was n't too bright . |
| 20 | Fashions , Wholesale and Mr Sawar brought proceedings against BCCI asking for a declaration that the amount of the debt due to BCCI could be reduced by the operation of Rule 4.90 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 , to the extent of the sum standing to the credit of Mr Sawar in his deposit account with BCCI at the date BCCI went into liquidation . |
| 21 | Dropping down exhausted without shelter could bring new meaning to the expression ‘ dead tired , . |
| 22 | Before opening his own gallery in the late 1980s , the Teheran-born Baghoomian was known to have operated a cash business in a SoHo basement where artists desperate for money could bring their works . |
| 23 | This splendid though rather whimsical riverside house was built as a granary , conveniently positioned at the very head of the navigable part of the River Cam along which barges laden with corn could travel from King 's Lynn and the fenland farming areas . |
| 24 | The tonsuring of Osred at York could suggest that he did not enjoy the support of Archbishop Eanbald , whereas the likelihood that Deira was the power-base of Aethelred receives strong support from the records for his second reign . |
| 25 | Omar 's information that the country below the escarpment would be suitable for camels could not have been more misleading . |
| 26 | In the ninth and decisive round England could only draw 2-2 against China , so Yugoslavia , leading the US 2-1 with a favourable unfinished game , were assured of silver . |
| 27 | And it is not easy to discover any more covert or sophisticated moral view of the characters and the events of the poem : it does not dwell in any suggestive way on the irremediable carnality of human desires , and only with a degree of distortion and uncalled for determination could we assert that the poem is significantly antifeminist or anticlerical . |
| 28 | In practice direct grant schools , the perpetuation of the public school system and the vested interests of sections of teachers as well as that complex animal , parental wishes , worked to maintain the status quo ante bellum to a much greater extent than even the most lukewarm of reformers could have wished . |
| 29 | The inner sanctuary or Holy of Holies could be entered only by the High Priest , once a year on the Day of Atonement . |