Example sentences of "[indef pn] could [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If someone could crawl under the |
| 2 | ‘ But it was three-and-a-half years in development and nobody could foresee at the start what the economy would be like now . |
| 3 | It was also felt that it was a company which nobody could attack on the grounds of political bias in favour of the project — if anything , thought Walsh , the other way round , after he had seen a portrait of Margaret Thatcher prominently displayed in its Ealing headquarters . |
| 4 | But er all of that was negated by the fact with the amount of fire and smoke that was on the platform , nobody could get to the lifeboats . |
| 5 | It was found that everyone could fit into the cellars , if the need arose , but £200 had to be spent on fans to improve the ventilation . |
| 6 | People got snappy , and nothing could compensate for the lack of leave . |
| 7 | But nothing could compare with the two universal sex-symbols of the decade , Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte Bardot . |
| 8 | It is such that nothing could get in the way of its operation save changes logically inconsistent with it or with its effect or with a causal sequence of which it and its effect are parts . |
| 9 | Nothing could thrive after the wholesale scouring of the planet … |
| 10 | Nothing could detract from the atmosphere that Madge 's set created , an otherworld of romantic fairyland , all silver and white and iridescent greens . |
| 11 | Nothing could happen until the evening , but then Lucy got her chance to see the inside of Charlie 's office much sooner than she 'd expected . |
| 12 | The hostel was fairly close to town and no-one could complain about the prices . |
| 13 | The weather was good , scores were high on the day , but no-one could live with the excellent golf from Dermot who kept a steady throughout , pausing only once for a ‘ chuckle ’ as colleague Kevin O'Leary pitched a 9-Iron into the nearby water hazard , albeit the Shannon . |
| 14 | It might be thought that so long as one asserted the local sign theory only in principle ( that is , did not specify the precise nature of the ‘ feeling ’ or ‘ colouring ’ which is supposed to subserve localisation ) , one could rely on the testimony of introspection for one 's theory to be confirmed . |
| 15 | ‘ Black people are the original people of the Earth , no one could exist on the planet without us and we must wake up , to struggle and do what we have to do to come into power , ’ announces Chester , striding across the stage , as the audience cheers . |
| 16 | That strength of mind one could sense below the surface , that glow of authority that seemed to radiate from his skin . |
| 17 | To be sure , one could sympathize with the sentiments of some of those penitents who refused themselves pleasures because the Emperor , saviour of mankind , could experience no pleasure whatever , locked as he had been for millennia in his prosthetic throne … |
| 18 | Shamanism , he explained patiently for the three idiot Brits , was a primitive practice of self-denial so that one could travel in the land of the dead and return unscathed . |
| 19 | It was noted in the introduction to Chapter 21 that , if planning represented the route map for the journey , then organizing represented the means by which one could arrive at the chosen destination . |
| 20 | Anybody to whom one could talk about the place ? |
| 21 | How could one refuse tenderness to someone so frail and tiny , to someone whose bones one could break with the flick of wrist , to someone who greeted one with smiles and later whoops of purest delight , who wept if one left them , and would die if one neglected them ? |
| 22 | However , this says nothing about coordination between agencies and it is here that one could point to the possible role of networks as well . |
| 23 | I think you know , Lincolnshire has done a dam good job for the people in Lincolnshire whether it in roads , whether it be old peoples homes , or whether it be in schools , whether it be in fire stations , police stations , I admit to where one could say across the board , they could compare , that they could compare , they might compare they might live in one area and work in another . |
| 24 | Frozen vegetables were , somehow , a lowering of standards , but they were quick and convenient and really fresher than anything one could get in the London shops . |
| 25 | The great train was standing there , faintly hissing , silver , immensely heavy , stretching away in both directions for as far as one could see in the gloom . |
| 26 | However , it is unclear to me at this time what recommendations one could put in the form of legislation to be put before the House that would command the majority needed to make sensible legislation , to allow the country to move forward in the 1990s . |
| 27 | Towards the end of Section 1.8 we noted that the only interpretation one could put upon the equality unc between the two polynomials mentioned is that 1 = 0 , -3 = 0 and 2 = 0 in Q. Thus the above equality is meaningful but blatantly false . |
| 28 | And most single people and er most young people in particular , fall outside that definition and that means that they really have no access to council housing of any kind and er they also find it very hard to get into the private rented sector , because of er the fact that 's it 's er , the rents are so high , and , and therefore they are at the mercy of erm basically the well , well loosely what one could describe as the bad landlords , the sharks , who will er exploit their situation . |
| 29 | Occasionally one could dispense with the bran and undersheet and purchase a tailored mattress ; likewise the sides could be padded and buttoned and a pillow provided . |
| 30 | This would mean that one could appeal to the weak anthropic principle , provided one could show that string theory does at least allow there to be such regions of the universe-and it seems that indeed string theory does . |