Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , only a conditional right of savages to the land occupied by them could be recognized . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But no country threatened with it could be sure that it would not . |
| 4 | The British Communists and the large group of supporters they had built around them could not sidestep the problem . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Therefore the admission which the Prime Minister wrung from him could hardly be said to have been grudging . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ If the system has broken down it could take days for it to be sorted out . |
| 10 | If one of these had gone in it could have been a different story . |
| 11 | But if she 'd wanted to she could easily have told him something that would have stopped him dead in his tracks . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The fast growth of private trading and corruption associated with it could best be checked by individuals familiar with their localities . |
| 14 | This meant that West European currencies when paid to non-Western Europeans for goods and services imported from them could now be freely converted . |
| 15 | But what had happened to her could happen to any woman . |
| 16 | What had happened to us could not , I thought , have been due entirely to education — not even to the idea that girls develop more quickly than boys to a certain point and then slow down ; but as I still clung loyally to my little world where all clergymen were good , all solicitors honest , and all philosophers and experts different from ordinary people and unquestionably right , I struggled hard against any idea that I might still be wiser than Bertrand Russell in some respects . |
| 17 | Her mother feared the trauma of being snatched from her could bring on an attack , and ran around frantically trying to find both the inhaler and the child 's tablets . |