Example sentences of "[indef pn] could [adv] [vb infin] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nothing could ever compare to the delights of JTR 's landlady and accommodation … |
| 2 | Perhaps he does go a little over the top with the rubato in the slow movement of K332 , but no-one could really object to such sincere intentions when they are delivered with such conviction and zest . |
| 3 | If wider costs were to be considered , one could also look to savings from reduced pollution , energy consumption and accident rates , quite apart from the health maintenance benefits of a walking population . |
| 4 | Room temperature is around about three hundred kelvins , but why we call it absolute is it , erm the lowest temperature one could ever get to is in fact designated as zero . |
| 5 | It was so much the sort of remark one could only make to a girl friend , but Rupert took it very nicely and said with only slightly forced heartiness , ‘ Jolly good , and it 's an excuse for me to have a better meal than usual , too . |
| 6 | The inhabitants of Mauléon remained pro-English rather longer than most , for the good reason that they found that to be governed from England was the nearest one could then come to being autonomous . |
| 7 | I wonder how anybody could ever go to gyms . |