Example sentences of "[noun sg] could [adv] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She cared no more for Mrs Monro than did anyone else , but the mother of my groom should , by rights , be beyond criticism , a positive bonus to my marriage , and even my mother , inclined as she was , to the bright side could n't overtly claim this . |
| 2 | Marx , however , realized that the need to make a living could never directly explain what human beings do , nor could it account for the complexity of human history itself . |
| 3 | In the real world he had to be ditched before Labour could ever seriously hope to form an effective government . |
| 4 | The Irish enforced a ‘ Ban ’ on British sports in the sense that those who wished to play Gaelic football or hurling under the aegis of the Gaelic Athletic Association could not also play football or cricket . |
| 5 | It also seems clear from the case that a car could no longer answer the description ‘ new ’ once the mileage it had travelled under its own power significantly exceeded the distance from the point of manufacture to the dealer . |
| 6 | The same reasoning could equally well apply to weasels and badgers , who live in burrows , but the Hopi follow a quite different line of thought ; they hold that the meat of these animals is favourable to child-rearing because of their habit of working their way through the ground and ‘ getting out ’ at some other place when they are chased into a hole . |
| 7 | So you may start off by saying well two hundred pounds fits this case according to it 's seriousness , but you find that the defendant could n't possibly afford to pay that and realistically , say , only a fifty pound fine can be imposed . |
| 8 | Only much later , in court , did it transpire that the witness could not possibly have seen the suspect 's face at the distance 75 metres in conditions of semi-darkness . |
| 9 | And the nuclear industry could n't always buy itself into the media . |
| 10 | Piggy is short-sighted ; and the spectacles he would have been prescribed for this condition could not possibly have been used as burning glasses . |
| 11 | Because the employee could only therefore point to the licensing fee as a tangible form of benefit , he also argued that the employer 's use of the valve in the steel production process at its South Teesside plant generated other economic benefits . |
| 12 | Despite these links , however , reformers in the African Institution could not always get what they wanted . |
| 13 | With that , careless of his obvious amazement that someone of her slender weight could not only pack such a punch but dare to do so , she spun rapidly round and raced back the way she had come . |
| 14 | In the closely knit ranks of the Sussex gentry such a royal action could only further enhance growing doubts of Stuart intentions . |
| 15 | Songs about relationships , growing older and social issues sat alongside primitive rock'n'roll revelry and country idioms , telling you something about Springsteen 's range as well as about the breadth of concerns which rock could now legitimately address . |
| 16 | Even if one remains within the traditional canon of the eighteenth century , it is hard to believe that a major critic could so easily dispense with Goldsmith , Crabbe , and Burns . |
| 17 | ‘ It is a huge building and clearly Her Majesty could not possibly visit every part of it . |
| 18 | But Charles had a nagging fear that it was n't that , that Michael Banks really was trying , that he did go through the lines time after time in the evenings , but that his mind could no longer retain them . |
| 19 | Such infill could not only explain the mascon but could also explain why no Imbrium impact features are visible within Mare Imbrium and why the surface is fairly smooth . |
| 20 | First , there was a widespread view that the overwhelming lesson of the war was that military force could no longer achieve its objectives . |
| 21 | However , all policemen belonged to lineages , and consequently the police force could not really handle those events ( such as the Ajdabiya elections ) which resulted in massive mobilization of populations : not because the numbers were too great , but because the police force did not contain enough men uninvolved on either side . |
| 22 | He thinks that the ancient sites were locations where altered states of consciousness could more readily occur . |
| 23 | They should be ashamed that their concentration could n't even last an hour . |
| 24 | Faye began to struggle to sit up , but Belinda forestalled her , relieved that the other woman had n't commented on the tired bags beneath her eyes that even make-up could n't fully conceal . |
| 25 | An alternative explanation of collective agricultural work could very plausibly stress the degree of compulsion by landlords on landless peasantry . |
| 26 | Any writer dealing with Rodrigo must turn to Pidal , and this present work could certainly not have been accomplished without his scrupulous and immensely detailed account of the life and period of El Cid . |
| 27 | The proponents of such outrageous plans were easily muzzled and isolated by the police and military authorities , but localized , ‘ patriotic ’ sympathies for some kind of regional autonomy continued to be cherished by a few individuals and groupings until the collapse of tsarist authority and the ensuing chaos of revolution and civil war created conditions in which the adherents of Siberian independence could now openly press their case and join in the bitter , fratricidal struggle of contending political and nationalist forces which raged across the country 's huge expanses between 1917 and 1922 . |
| 28 | The council could also not understand why Bristol had been chosen as a UDC area . |
| 29 | All of those factors lead the City Council to the view that the current level of residual given emerging government advice , the City Council could no longer support the idea of a new settlement of something like fourteen hundred dwellings set in the countryside beyond the outer edge of the York greenbelt . |
| 30 | Gerry : Politically speaking , though , there was n't the same organized pressure over the heterosexism issue , and management could n't initially see any reasons for our existence . |