Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh det] [pron] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contrary to John Pain 's comment , I have always been a reasonable swimmer , and was convinced I would be able to reach the coast which I could see . |
| 2 | We needed to alternate between the past and the future , and while we had two good historical scripts in , none of the writers David had commissioned had yet produced anything set in the future which we could use . |
| 3 | Satan ran the sort of club which anyone could join . |
| 4 | The case has become even stronger as British people gain more opportunities to participate in foreign lotteries — thus increasing the risk that funds which we could put to good use in Britain will be diverted abroad . |
| 5 | Beyond the agricultural connection , the main economic strength of a community resided in the number and variety of craftsmen which it could support . |
| 6 | Certain value added tax cases would tend to indicate that the amount of benefit obtained by a taxpayer if the trustees allow him the use of a Ming Vase would equate to the sort of rent which they could have received if they had let the vase with appropriate adjustments being made for insurance , agreeing to house the vase , etc . |
| 7 | ‘ We discovered there were elms which we could use on the Floors Estate and so the Duke agreed to sell them to us . ’ |
| 8 | I was soon to take up my first teaching post in a Secondary School and he had called to ask if I were able to make use of a potter 's wheel which he could provide for the new Art room . |
| 9 | We might say roughly that there are two sorts of givens which we could call duties and wishes . |
| 10 | The model illustrated has the facility to take a heater and a separate thermostat if required , lights and a pump , with a spare terminal which you could use for a power filter . |
| 11 | Although tried as adults , the defendants were due to be sentenced as juveniles , which meant that the maximum prison term which they could receive was 10 years . |
| 12 | One Monday morning I lay in bed looking out of my skylight window at nothing in particular ; there was n't anything to see except sky because the window was merely a hole in the roof which you could open or shut with a long wooden handle . |
| 13 | Mike Rosen , poet and broadcaster , was the champion of a strategy for reading dependent on enthusing readers by offering them books which they could enjoy , books which had been chosen by them or for them by people who knew about children 's books . |
| 14 | The Stavka , Russia 's supreme war council , asked Brusilov what he could do to take pressure off the Italians by preventing even more Austrian troops being taken from the Eastern Front to the Trentino . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm tryin' to work out in my mind what we could do in this district if a general rebellion should break out . ’ |
| 16 | Install a hard disk card — the advantage of this is the apparent ease of installation , also it is completely additional and leaves the two existing floppy drives , again the disadvantages are cost and potential damage which I could cause installing it . |
| 17 | There was , however , always one matter for which he had a personal responsibility which he could share with no one else . |
| 18 | We should have headed for the nearest faux French bistro , be we had not finished our ‘ 89 Cloudy Bay Sauvignon blanc which nobody could spoil , so we sat it out . |
| 19 | When you join ‘ pony club ’ there are a variety of different activities which you could go on , for example there is show jumping which involves you deciding what height jumps you would like to jump , normally the classes range from two feet high and up . |
| 20 | Beyond that period , he had to be issued with a holding order and eventually served with allegations of his suspected terrorist activities which he could contest before a commissioner in a special ‘ Diplock ’ Detained Persons ' Tribunal . |
| 21 | The novel is brief — 100 pages or so — and a remarkably effective narrative which you could get through in one sitting . |
| 22 | The consultative task was to keep the focus of discussion on the pupil , but simultaneously to deal with the teacher 's perception of the problem ( the reinforcing effect it was having on both pupil and teacher ) by giving him through group support the kind of liberating learning experience which he could transfer into the teaching context with Dave |
| 23 | This led the partners towards a request that the school produce a plan for its Guidance programme from which the partners could identify and prioritise the support which they could offer towards enhancing our activities and adding to the quality of our provision . |
| 24 | In her study of 61 white mothers conducted in London in 1983–4 , Wilson ( 1987 ) found that none relied upon their children 's grandparents to carry the main burden of child care while they themselves went out to work , but most regarded grandmothers as support which they could use on a more casual basis for babysitting , and as help in emergencies . |
| 25 | Without influential subjects serving about the pope , the king had to enlist the utmost support which he could muster among the cardinals in order to shape the papal response to his demands . |
| 26 | yes because they , they fo forgot to take out the money which they could have , which erm , which would of come from privatization , which they had no intention of doing so they took that out . |
| 27 | I think you 've got quite a significant amount of money which you could offset what we 've been saying just grieves me . |
| 28 | Encourage your friend to contact Phobic Action ( see box ) who organise self-help groups which you could attend . |
| 29 | Faced with the prospect of growing structural unemployment and reflecting an analysis that structural unemployment would be a growing feature of industrial society , the work-force at Lucas Aerospace proposed 150 socially useful products which they could design and manufacture as an alternative to facing degradation and suffering in the dole queue . |
| 30 | He looked upon bishoprics as rewards which he could bestow upon clerks who served him loyally and efficiently . |