Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] a [noun sg] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could volunteer to pay two hundred and fifty a month could n't you ? |
| 2 | Obviously a politician able to perform this service conferred a very material favour on the endangered man and his relatives , and such a favour could attach their loyalty to the interest able to save them . |
| 3 | She saw it all in terms of Edmund 's settlement : a brief holiday on the Riviera , and such a sum could vanish as if it had never been . |
| 4 | Solicitors may set up a corporate practice to practice solely outside England and Wales provided that ( a ) this is permitted by local law , ( b ) all the directors and shareholders are solicitors , lawyers of another jurisdiction or members of the Bar of England and Wales acting in accordance with the Overseas Practice Rules of the Bar and ( c ) the practice complies with the Overseas Practice Rules ; but such a company could not practice in England and Wales . |
| 5 | Gregory the Great , interestingly , seems to represent the survival of an older tradition in upholding the civil rights of Jews within the community defined by Roman law rather than by religion ; but such a survival could not long resist the powerful pressures towards conformity where Roman legal inhibitions were less strong . |
| 6 | But such a calculation could only be a gamble . |
| 7 | There is no title " Banking and industrialization " but such a search could lead to " Banking and industrialization in Europe " or " Banking in the early stages of industrialization " and a number of other titles . |