Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pron] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that instance you could issue a B one so that he would have some money coming in . |
| 2 | Well why did n't they get a mile away from where they put that money they could 've , they could 've been planned it away , a mile away all |
| 3 | Essentially , the cold war preserved American power structures and so prevented the emergence of a new set of political institutions which could regulate the post-Fordist global economy , and which could manage and respond to the dramatic changes in the balance of the world economy as a result of the introduction of new methods of production , especially in Japan and Western Europe , based on the intensive use of information technologies . |
| 4 | ‘ That bit I could do without ’ . |
| 5 | He reached into his pocket and extracted the largest coin he could find . |
| 6 | As justification for claiming strong Norman support he could advance the wickedness of Harold , the ‘ backwardness ’ of the English church , the increasing separation of Scandinavian — English politics from the mainlines of central and southern European development and , perhaps most immediately attractive to his baronial supporters , the promise of considerable territorial gains if the gamble came off . |
| 7 | Again I I showed all due diligence I could do in the situation . |
| 8 | You got any discreet contacts you could tap into fast ? ’ |
| 9 | It had to be lifted off the track each night to prevent possible vandalism which could have seen it trundling down to Staveley on the falling grade ! |
| 10 | When taking a train journey women were advised to equip themselves with the largest hat-pin they could find and if travelling by night , or through a tunnel , they were to sit bolt upright , hat-pin clenched between the teeth in case of attack . |
| 11 | Even with only half those Spanish coins he could buy all he wanted and more . |
| 12 | Because of his betrayal of the Decembrists in 1825 and his long identification with the regime of Nicholas I , he had few friends on the left of the political spectrum who could advise him on the way in which emancipation should proceed . |
| 13 | Legend says it was here that Edward I showed his baby son to the Welsh as ‘ the native-born prince who could speak no English ’ . |
| 14 | In that case there could have been no just criticism of Lincoln 's Inn in the way it had adjudicated on the application of a student applying for admission to the Inn who had had serious criminal convictions between 1956 and 1974 . |
| 15 | The greatest present we could wish for would be to see him safe and sound . |
| 16 | Just as we could , perhaps , calculate the weight of the largest insect which could walk on a given liquid , so we can use these concepts to calculate how strong we ought to expect materials to be . |
| 17 | As a small owner-occupied parcel it could have been missed ; alternatively he might have preferred to sell it , possibly to John , whose own assessment could therefore have embraced this as well . |
| 18 | Why the French insisted on this condition was obvious : supranationalism was essential in order to create strong institutions which could limit Germany 's industrial independence in future . |
| 19 | If he does sport independently , he has to concentrate on maintaining control over any associated reactions which could knock him off balance as he makes a physical effort . |
| 20 | Dear Catriona I could guess you probably worked this out a long time ago but I might as well get it over with once and for all and I finally managed to summon up the courage to do so , A S A , a secret admirer , no longer exists , he no longer admires secret or otherwise and has n't existed for almost a year now and again you probably know who he is but I might as well tell you it 's me Johnny the eleven year old , now fourteen , you met at Christmas ninety and boy do I feel stupid . |
| 21 | In a still moment of total blackness she could feel the sinewed strength , the velvet softness of the dragon 's tripes . |
| 22 | from about hundred and fifty pound you could pay . |
| 23 | A consistent theme within English studies since the 1970s has been the call for a " methodology " capable of describing and analysing the " nature of the knowledge specific to English as a discourse " , or at least offer a " fully articulated and logically coherent appraisal which could count as indubitable knowledge about a given literary work " . |
| 24 | In each gear you could tell the carburettors were better balanced after 12,000 miles as the slower increments always favoured the later set of figures . |
| 25 | ‘ She did n't utter any reproach , but her face was the greatest reproach anyone could make . ’ |
| 26 | There are many possible computers which could have been used to exemplify the terms we have introduced . |
| 27 | Half-way along the back of the lower legs you could see the vicious spur with which the birds fought . |
| 28 | Such individuals , who would be described as good readers , are able to use the preceding context to reduce the number of possible words which could occur at the end of the sentence , making use of many sources of information and not relying exclusively upon any one source . |
| 29 | This was neither the basic approach of Raistrick to fungal metabolism , nor quite the same concept as that of antibiosis , but it led to a similar outcome , the possible discovery of a microbial agent which could destroy the microbes that caused disease . |
| 30 | Having said that , I do n't blame them because ‘ Ironfist ’ was n't the greatest album it could have been and ‘ Another Perfect Day ’ , well , I 've been thinking about that and I 'm sure it was n't just the album … ’ |