Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was certain that Scarlet would never behave so irrationally but could not quite rid himself of the image of the breakfast table . |
| 2 | By the end of the week I was still having the occasional fake nightmare , I would suddenly go very quiet and shivery every now and again , but I was eating more or less normally and could answer most questions quite happily . |
| 3 | He said that intellect took one so far but could not take one the whole way . |
| 4 | Having reassured herself that , so far as could reasonably be expected , no changes had been made in the house , Elisabeth embarked on a tour of the garden . |
| 5 | At some late and inebriated stage of the proceedings , Ramsey Everett made his way , alone so far as could be established , into an adjacent sitting-out room . |
| 6 | ‘ Johnny Giles knew the game inside out and could motivate players . |
| 7 | These were safer than petrol engines , more suitable because they could be run more slowly and could be connected directly to the propeller . |
| 8 | This means that the language of literature is no longer regarded as subordinated to the message supposedly carried by the text , and this emptiness of content illustrates far more powerfully than could anything else the primacy of language itself . |
| 9 | On occasion , strong political interest could push a young man forward much more rapidly than could have been for the good of the service . |
| 10 | Surveying reports on the relevant customary behaviour in 350 separate ‘ societies ’ , Tylor was able to demonstrate that , when the newlyweds set up house with the wife 's kin , avoidance behaviour between the latter and the husband occurred more frequently than could be expected on the basis of mere chance . |
| 11 | I accepted their offer straight away and could n't get here quickly enough . |
| 12 | In many parts of the world , as King 's survey stresses , the redistribution process involves the splitting-up of large estates , where land is farmed to produce a satisfactory return for the owners but not as intensively as could be the case ; insufficient land productivity is thus a contributory cause of the widespread poverty . |
| 13 | What he saw he painted as exactly as could be painted but he certainly knew when to catch each view in its most romantic moment . |
| 14 | Suits '68/'69 — mohair or as near as could be got away with . |
| 15 | We went there with a new cloth on the drum , as near as could be ; and when we come away there was n't a piece of it no bigger than your hand . |
| 16 | A special pathos is achieved when the poetry acts out the predicament of people whose all too expert command of language debars them ( paradoxically ) from expressing a common human sorrow — mortality , the fear of it , and its conclusiveness — as limpidly as could Williams 's ‘ widow ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ What remained of the car was examined but , as far as could be told , there was nothing wrong with the brakes or the steering and the tyres were nearly new . ’ |
| 18 | As far as could be foreseen , they were to retain responsibility for the nuclear deterrent after ballistic missiles had taken over from manned bombers . |
| 19 | Not Terry Place , who , as far as could be judged , had never met any of the Pitts except the girl , and that on a day that nearly killed him . |
| 20 | Samuel had now read all passages from the Lion 's work relevant to Rochester Castle , and enumerated every single friend that Dickens had brought there , as far as could be traced . |
| 21 | So as often as could be managed I went for trips with my father on the trams . |
| 22 | The decision was communicated to our staff late in 1992 and I am pleased to say that the wind-down has been handled as efficiently as could be wished . |
| 23 | Looking as well as could be expected . |
| 24 | ‘ I think you might say , sir , that the patient is coming along as well as could be expected . |
| 25 | Meh'Lindi had darted back into a service tunnel and was decamping as fast as could be , cradling Grimm who was wailing like a baby . |
| 26 | Its entrance was discovered in 1950 and two years later this deepest of all gouffres acquired a sad celebrity with the death there of Marcel Loubens , a Belgian speleologist , who was badly injured deep underground but could not be got to the surface quickly enough to save his life , a story I dimly remember reading at the time in newspapers . |
| 27 | She 'd been grappling with the oddest emotional reaction , one she 'd never come across before and could n't fathom at all , clutching the jacket round her so tightly that her knuckles were white . |
| 28 | Conker slowed a little , but the branches were coming too fast , he had to lean right forward and could n't use his hands . |
| 29 | Still I think there are concerns for Leeds about the scale of employment land proposed in Selby for example , which seems to us significantly more than could be supported by the arithmetic calculation plus some kind of a sensible allowance , it seems to f to be excessively generous . |
| 30 | I looked round very carefully but could see nothing , so I turned back on the tail of the nearest Hun , who was chasing some Hurricanes in front of him . |