Example sentences of "[indef pn] could [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was terrifying to think that someone could feel such hatred towards you that they could do something like this . |
| 2 | What if someone could undergo that absorption with a cool … dare I say it ? … scientific rationale . |
| 3 | It was a whirlwind romance , all right , and nobody could talk any sense into Freda . |
| 4 | Nobody could finance increased imports of these commodities to provide competition for these producers on the domestic market . |
| 5 | Nobody could doubt that metalwork was going to get its comeuppance . |
| 6 | He believed , without conceit , that not everyone could do this job and , as he felt that he could , it was up to him to do it . |
| 7 | Nothing could disturb this love . |
| 8 | Nothing could penetrate that world of her unshakeable convictions but the humility of being exposed and shattered by the ugly girl with her outspoken rudeness , significantly called Mary Grace . |
| 9 | Nothing could fumish that room , |
| 10 | As long as you kept the public happy and there were no complaints — no-one could find any complaints to write into Head Office with — you were doing a good job . |
| 11 | Forty hopefuls replied , but none could match 52-year-old widow Jean Day who already has two grandchildren of her own . |
| 12 | Take us and Europe now , is n't it odd that , after two world wars , in which our men who died , our nations sacrificed themselves in fighting what was thought to be the great German danger , we now find ourselves at least as much hostile to our allies in both of those wars — the French — as we do to the Germans , and if one could measure this sort of thing it might well be that in the British public at large you would find more sympathy towards the Germans than the French . |
| 13 | If one likes , one could ascribe this randomness to the intervention of God , but it would be a very strange kind of intervention : there is no evidence that it is directed toward any purpose . |
| 14 | Old women nodded their heads and chomped their false teeth , young men smiled sympathetically but no one could shed any light on the mysterious car accident that had killed his father . |
| 15 | Therefore , in addition to specifically charged items , one could recover 24 hours ' general perusals on litigation which had taken 2 years from issue of writ to trial . |
| 16 | Despite this period there was always a mass of cloud and it was quite normal for us to go down to see if one could identify some feature . |
| 17 | To be fair , I did n't , I did say we 're talking about parenting and one one could do another programme perhaps , focusing on the child or the needs and rights of the child in specific , but I think I 've been looking at the almost the scariness , I suppose , of being a parent , the challenges facing parents and the whole half hour , really , has not been about the joys of parenthood , so much as the problems of parenthood ! |
| 18 | One could avoid this difficulty of having to describe what we do not and can not know only if the histories satisfy the no boundary condition : they are finite in extent but have no boundaries , edges , or singularities . |
| 19 | On these factors , one could make several observations . |
| 20 | Miach said no one could undo this spell . |
| 21 | One could speculate that behaviour would continue to improve , although at a decreasing rate , with it perhaps approaching a plateau somewhere below the optimum ; one might also want to speculate that there would be different plateaus for different people — reflecting the ‘ fact ’ that some individuals are better decision-makers than others . |
| 22 | From our results one could speculate that impairment of gall bladder contraction is a sensitive parameter for the diagnosis of autonomic neuropathy in the gastrointestinal tract . |
| 23 | It would be impossible administratively to place a higher tax on a given item for those with higher incomes although one could impose indirect taxes mainly on the goods and services consumed by higher-income groups , and perhaps at higher rates . |
| 24 | But Labour 's education chairman , Gideon Ben-Tovim , said keeping two separate age-group schools for those with physical disabilities would mean two half capacity schools when one could house all pupils . |
| 25 | He wrote home often , trying to keep his family 's spirits up , but between the lines one could read that life was not good . |
| 26 | No one could have any idea to where that was going to lead . |
| 27 | Under the European Community legislation , one could have tougher standards in national law without any difficulty . |
| 28 | One could add more strategies , defining more specific alternatives . |
| 29 | One could add humorous comments — his act of falling flat on his face from a standing position — but you wo n't need to be reminded of them , Rosemary . |
| 30 | I walked the glen many times , and looked back on the few trees , lying far in the hollow , that grow near the place where the massacre is said to have begun ; while on either side were deep rock-lined , tree and fern-fringed chasms , leading into seclusions and bleak mountain summits , one could spend long hours exploring . |