Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] a [noun sg] could " in BNC.

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1 But there are several billion people in the world to whom such a coincidence could happen , so the apparent coincidence is actually not as great as it seems .
2 Circumstances could be envisaged in which such a threat could be most material to a woman .
3 Not only do we lack a clearly articulated set of policy objectives , in the absence of a coordinating Ministry of Justice , we also lack the necessary institutional framework within which such a strategy could be implemented .
4 The only ground on which such a right could be defeated , according to Dworkin , would be a competing right advanced by another individual , and even then one such right could not be taken automatically to subordinate another .
5 Suppose that x and y are numbers , such that x is greater than y ; then it would appear that there is no conceivable way in which such a relation could be reduced to qualitative properties of one kind or another , and re-expressed , accordingly , in a form that does not require the existence of both its terms .
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