Example sentences of "[noun sg] could [adv] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | St Antonino of Florence felt that the professional soldier could not fight in a war the justice of which was not above doubt , nor could he be given absolution as long as he continued to fight in that cause . |
| 2 | It is that if speech can be bilaterally represented , then damage to the speech areas of one side could conceivably occur without any ensuing aphasia . |
| 3 | They played the ball the game the easy way and the opposition could n't cope with it . |
| 4 | The character ‘ ? ’ , or ‘ wild card ’ character ( mentioned previously in section 3.4.1 ) is sometimes given as output from the pattern recogniser for letter positions where the recognition could not match with any known character encoding . |
| 5 | It was clear that the records department could not remain in London . |
| 6 | The Justice Department could not ask for damages or seek penalties against the guilty parties . |
| 7 | Gazza said : ‘ Some of what he did might have been wrong but I respect the fact that Maradona made himself the player Napoli could n't do without when he was in Italy . |
| 8 | What of the claim that I made earlier that no such conception could ever exist without the mental system being holistic ? |
| 9 | When the election campaign resumes , the responsibility for India 's future could well revert to the Congress Party . |
| 10 | Llanthony Priory 's future could now depend on the new National Lottery . |
| 11 | While it might be interesting to compare Mrs. Simper 's and Sophronia 's reactions to lower servants better educated than themselves , the essential point is that a violation of the ordinary division of labour could easily result in a domestic servant losing his or her place . |
| 12 | Third , there is the growing recognition that Labour could not carry through a radical programme of change without mass support . |
| 13 | If Labour could not win at a time of economic gloom , bolstered by the most effective campaign it has ever fought , and facing a Government whose campaign did not really come to life until the last 10 days — then when could it ? |
| 14 | A week after the Nürburgring , I think anyone would have been hard put to imagine that Niki could possibly return to racing . |
| 15 | Huy could not guess by what means Reni had saved himself and his family from the debacle that followed Akhenaten 's fall ; but he knew many good men whose ruin had been the price the scribe had paid to be sitting here now , and the thought tempered his sympathy . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ I think Italian football could well appeal to the ladies . |
| 17 | Football could n't wait till the end ! |
| 18 | There were power cuts over the winter of 1947 because the industry could n't cope with the demand . |
| 19 | If so , the latest developments in the hospitality industry could well appeal to you . |
| 20 | I had never seen a kiln fired before and the unpredictable behaviour of live flame could only add to the already restless sensuality of the afternoon . |
| 21 | The Mayor could also sit as coroner upon any body found in these waters . |
| 22 | The swings had gone and the pier had been demolished ; a few years ago the Council had given permission for a café-and-restaurant to be built , but the place had only been open a month when it caught fire and was burned out ; the Fire Brigade could n't get to it , the promenade being too narrow for their vehicles . |
| 23 | He contended that pleasure could only arise from the satisfaction of an impulse and that therefore there could be no pleasure , and no possibility of satisfying a desire for pleasure , unless there were impulses towards things other than pleasure . |
| 24 | He sought to show how the laws imposed by certain countries to attract internationally mobile inward investment could only operate to the detriment of other states . |
| 25 | When the reality is that a cottage pie housing a six-year-old ingredient could probably qualify as a listed dwelling . |
| 26 | This would imply , according to Pulgrum 's argument , not only that the Wolof could not communicate with Greenfield but also that they could not communicate with each other . |
| 27 | But the sea was very rough and our little boat could not live for long in that wild water . |
| 28 | At first , my mind could not adjust to the missing three months , so that I sat stupidly with the paper in my hands , staring at it . |
| 29 | Aye , by varying the nature of the stimuli so contradictorily , unpredictably , and totally — so confusingly that the mind could not concentrate upon one species of ordeal , but was assaulted instead by a menagerie of martyrdoms , a zoo of torments . |
| 30 | His mind could not take in all the implications of this sudden realization . |