Example sentences of "[noun sg] could [verb] that the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Tensions within international football could mean that the fourteenth World Cup will be the last of its kind . |
| 2 | This made the task of the prosecutor somewhat easier , but it had the paradoxical effect that a person who distributed such material with a mischievous intention could argue that the recipients of his material were unlikely to be influenced by it , and he was therefore not guilty if his audience were already corrupt , or were members of an anti-racist organisation , or if the publication or spoken words were so contrary to human decency that they would be likely to provoke sympathy for the intended victim rather than hatred of him . |
| 3 | Post-Darwinian geologists had assigned vast tracts of time for the operations of forces still believed by us to have shaped the Earth ; but they were challenged on the grounds that thermodynamics could demonstrate that the Sun and the Earth could not be much more than fifty million years old . |
| 4 | Here the shareholder could argue that the insider dealing was either a mala fide abuse of position or a misappropriation of the company 's assets , neither of which are ratifiable . |
| 5 | Any fool could see that the geek is Woody out of Cheers , but maybe Sid is too busy shooting baskets to watch it . |
| 6 | ‘ The central issue raised on this aspect of the appeal is whether there is any evidence upon which the judge could find that the plaintiffs behaved in a manner in relation to the conduct of the son as to make them liable to suffer financial loss resulting from the equitable relief sought by the defendants . |
| 7 | I was amazed that the hon. Member for Nottingham , South could believe that the provisions have nothing to do with safety . |
| 8 | The manager at school level could say that the plans and consequences of planning which emerge from employment strategies or from higher education are too remote to matter . |
| 9 | If the contractual measure of damage was the only measure to be applied the Vendor could argue that the value of the Business was not necessarily reduced by the full amount of the undisclosed liability . |
| 10 | Looking around he remembered it was difficult to plant bugs actually inside panelling but even his half-trained eye could see that the elaborate cornices and mouldings gave a myriad opportunities to a good wire man . |
| 11 | The General could see that the garrison were having trouble adjusting themselves to the new state of things and so , to give them time , he called for iced sherry and soda to be served . |
| 12 | If a piece of metal had flown out of the machine and blinded Brian , the court could hold that the purpose of the statute was to keep the employee out , not the machine in . |
| 13 | The court could determine that the death was too remote . |
| 14 | There was no need for Authority members to preview controversial programmes themselves : the court would only interfere if no reasonable person could believe that the system established by the IBA would maintain programme standards at the general level required by the Act . |
| 15 | When he came to see me , I said that I would write to the chairlady of the health authority , who replied that she was very sorry that this had happened but asked whether the gentleman could prove that the burn marks had been caused by the deposit from the hospital chimney . |
| 16 | The Colonel could tell that the noise was distracting Amanda from her pamphlet , though she gave no outward sign . |
| 17 | The judge erred in law in holding that in mortgage proceedings if a mortgagee failed to seek an order for costs then the mortgagor could apply for the costs to be taxed on an appropriate basis ; if no order was made the mortgagor could require that the costs of the mortgage proceedings be referred by the master taking the account to the taxing master for taxation pursuant to R.S.C. , Ord. 62 , r. 24 ; ( 3 ) that a provision in the mortgage deed providing expressly or by implication the basis on which costs were to be taxed was not then binding on the court and the judge also erred when he held that in mortgage proceedings a provision entitling the mortgagee to an indemnity against all costs , charges and expenses was void so far as it purports to exclude the jurisdiction of the court under section 51 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 18 | In such a case where the true facts can only be known by the defence the prosecution could aver that the driver was unlicensed . |
| 19 | The test was whether the prosecution could show that the tipper received some form of direct or indirect personal benefit from the outlawed conduct . |
| 20 | Seeing Anthea each day would be a constant reminder , and neither woman could deny that the masks of civility each had been holding up to the other for months were now trampled underfoot . |
| 21 | At the end of the day , an individual observer could conclude that the various costs of regulation exceeded the benefits and that therefore regulation should be abandoned , but such a conclusion , if warranted at all , is not warranted without a great deal of analysis . |
| 22 | By 1902 one observer could note that the chapel had become |
| 23 | The fact of union , coupled with its repeated reaffirmation , has resulted in a position where only a blind man could assume that the power of the Westminster Parliament to sever it was so well established in general acquiescence that none would deny the propriety of its exercise . |
| 24 | A blind man could see that the children think the earth of you . |
| 25 | They had proposed a new rule to the effect that , if during an interrogation , a suspect omitted to mention some fact which would exculpate him or her , but kept this back until the trial , the court or jury could infer that the evidence was untrue ( Criminal Law Revision Committee , 1972 ) . |
| 26 | Before leaving the question on the nationality requirement , I would also point out in passing that , at the hearing , the Commission agreed that the flag state could stipulate that the captain of the vessel and the mate should have its nationality . |
| 27 | To this , a sophisticated advocate of the import-target approach could reply that the balance is not the issue . |
| 28 | In the worst passages of his despair , Tuck could believe that the little bugger had learned to be a maverick from his father . |
| 29 | When the dawn came , anxious viewers on the shore could see that the waves had taken with them the Eddystone lighthouse , its eccentric architect and five other unfortunate souls . |
| 30 | It extended the provisions of the 1965 Rent Act to tied cottage occupants in agriculture , but at the same time provided for a procedure whereby a former worker could be rehoused by the local authority where the farmer could prove that the house was essential to accommodate a replacement worker . |