Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | All through this Cruickshank has carefully sought not to be the outsider caught between what could have been the conflicting demands of minister-in-government and workers and patients in the field , ‘ by brining in the ministers and whoever and getting that shared view . |
| 2 | Moreover , only a conditional right of savages to the land occupied by them could be recognized . |
| 3 | Derek Johns of Sheffield writes in to say that a company that has a rare new species named after it could find its share price sensitive to any environmental news . |
| 4 | But no country threatened with it could be sure that it would not . |
| 5 | Their own experiences allowed them to take up whatever social reference was needed and if anything the demands of Progressives helped for they allowed age-old traditions of humour to be shaped into what could often appear to be social satire . |
| 6 | You 're just looking to see if there are any aspects of a person 's drive where , you know , one or two habits might have crept in which could possibly encroach upon safety margins to some extent . |
| 7 | The British Communists and the large group of supporters they had built around them could not sidestep the problem . |
| 8 | The absurdity of the Italian ‘ recruitment ’ system is revealed by what could safely be described as the ‘ Aquila paradox ’ — the man sidelined by Martin was none other than the successful Italian fullback Luigi Troiani . |
| 9 | Have you thought of who could be there ? |
| 10 | The correspondence of Alcuin reveals that there was opposition within Mercia to the succession of Ecgfrith , presumably from princes who felt in danger of being excluded from the succession , and Offa evidently embarked on what could be described as a purge of these opponents . |
| 11 | If we could get him to come in reasonably quickly you could get all that stuff down and bagged up and we could get rid of it could n't we ? |
| 12 | There could be no doubt that the gentleman was out to flatter Lady Merchiston , for no one who had played with her could fail to notice that she cheated . |
| 13 | That is one day 's debate on an extremely serious matter , compared to what could be done by a Select Committee over many weeks of sitting , bringing evidence before it , questioning people involved , looking at the matter in depth . |
| 14 | Rent control leads to a decline in the rate of return on the rented accommodation , when compared to what could be earned if the capital value of the house were invested elsewhere . |
| 15 | Therefore the admission which the Prime Minister wrung from him could hardly be said to have been grudging . |
| 16 | Secondly , an individual post-hole can not easily be assigned to any particular building phase , since any datable artefact found within it could either pre-date or post-date the structure for which the hole was dug . |
| 17 | So it is not surprising that deconstruction was reduced to what could be easily handled and passed on . |
| 18 | If , then , this column is going to be devoted to what could be called the ecology ( or Eco-logy ) of popular culture , it 's obliged to recognize that none of the emblematic artifices and artefacts of that culture , be they movies , commercials , headlines , photographs , typefaces , fashions or fads , can any longer be trusted to be ‘ innocent ’ ; that even if the crisp elegance of the typeface in which this article is embedded emits a ‘ meaning ’ as much as does the text itself , that meaning is also just as conscious and deliberate . |
| 19 | A few of the clauses in the Declaration appear to have referred to what could only be Whig grievances . |
| 20 | ‘ If the system has broken down it could take days for it to be sorted out . |
| 21 | Then I realized I was kneeling on a tarpaulin which someone had carefully placed over what could have been a small metal gate — or — the detached ‘ fun bumper ’ cow-catcher device from a small four-wheel-drive vehicle , say , a Shogun . |
| 22 | l he general conclusion reached here was that any attempt to get behind the early church 's proclamation of Jesus to what Jesus himself had actually believed about himself could only be built on psychological conjecture and historical guesswork . |
| 23 | If one of these had gone in it could have been a different story . |
| 24 | I longed to be off , I wanted to be gone before anything could prevent it . |
| 25 | But if she 'd wanted to she could easily have told him something that would have stopped him dead in his tracks . |
| 26 | We adopt , therefore , an approach which might appropriately be termed the unorthodox view as opposed to what could be called the traditional view . |
| 27 | The Goblin King , Grom the Paunch of Misty Mountain , infamous old Goblin Warlord and Lord of the Crags , was suddenly and unexpectedly struck by what could have been a big rock were it not for the sploshy red stuff that exploded from it , showering the goblin horde . |
| 28 | If your interest in the past centres on some figure in particular from days gone by you could perhaps not do better than to consider whether he or she would make a detective , as the American writer Lilian de la Torre did with a series of short stories about Dr Sam Johnson , Detector . |
| 29 | The fast growth of private trading and corruption associated with it could best be checked by individuals familiar with their localities . |
| 30 | Without over dramatising the fact that firearm , coupled with myself could easily kill somebody so we have to make sure that every single time we draw the weapon er there is a need , there is a justification for it er and as soon as that need and justification stops , so would we put the weapon away . |