Example sentences of "[indef pn] could [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone could easily make a fire in there . |
| 2 | The whiskers were too small to see with the naked eye and nobody could possibly make a testing machine on that scale . |
| 3 | Nobody could possibly offer a definite answer to this and say how long it may take to fully overcome anxiety and stress problems . |
| 4 | No-one could ever write a book about that , he thought . |
| 5 | Mr Grey 's enthusiasm and energy for the entrepreneurial challenge was contagious , but one could nevertheless feel a good few heels digging in among the bookselling purists at the idea of running a hairdresser . |
| 6 | So to say yes to higher taxes when one could instead choose a second car or private hospital is to assert the value of decency . |
| 7 | No doubt one could easily design a more Francophone list , but with nine Germans and three Austrians , the German-language contribution was close in number to the 13 English-language and outnumbered the eight French . |
| 8 | ‘ One could scarcely find a more motherly kindly woman … good natured and the opposite of worrying … |
| 9 | Indeed , if one could find some way of starting the downswing , one could probably hit a satisfactory shot with a club head swung on a chain using the stiffness generated by the tension . |
| 10 | One could even make a case for delaying it until the Club celebrates its Centenary Year 20 years hence . |
| 11 | Of course , it is not necessary to press the actual flowers from the birthday celebration itself , as one could just make a picture for the eighteen-year old as a present . |
| 12 | In the case of a young man of 25 in a managerial or professional occupation with good job prospects one could reasonably expect a multiplier of 17 or 18 . |
| 13 | And if Turgenev were to object that one could not find a more typical product of the 1840s than the Petrashevsky Circle to which Dostoevsky belonged , how would the other man reply ? |
| 14 | One could not teach a chimpanzee to grow bananas nor a dolphin to farm fish , for these are quite alien to its mind set and require the foresight , the ability to see and plan ahead , which only man possesses . |
| 15 | One could not get a dispensation from the mines inspectorate to increase the manpower . |
| 16 | Moreover , it would be quite wrong to conclude that in the above examples only the tones given would be appropriate ; it is , in fact , almost impossible to find a context where one could not substitute a different tone . |
| 17 | This one could n't rape a prostitute if she came and sat on his knee . |
| 18 | One could well imagine a worthless volume masquerading under such a title . |
| 19 | If , as seems likely , she consolidates this position via the single market , while gaining de facto control of the single currency , one could well envisage a scenario in which a strong Germany was bad for Europe . |
| 20 | There were fruit trees amongst the flowers , here a pear tree , there a currant bush , so that one could either smell a rose , crush a verbena , or eat a fruit ; there were borders of box , but also of sorrel and chibol ; and the stiff battalion of leeks , shallots , and garlic , the delicate pale-green foliage of the carrot , the aggressive steel-grey leaves of the artichokes , the rows of lettuce which always ran to seed too quickly . |
| 21 | One could find as much to write about on almost any other sheet of the Ordnance Survey ; and one could indeed write a whole chapter about a single sheet of the 2 ½-inch map , covering only some six miles each way . |
| 22 | One could hardly find a more severe rebuttal of this convention than the latest contribution to the junior Napoleonic adventure , Jan Needle 's A Fine Boy for Killing . |
| 23 | Thus , if the whole internal process were slowed down enormously , one could actually see a representation of each command executed by the machine at the lowest possible level of representation . |
| 24 | A belief is indubitable if and only if no one could ever have a reason to doubt it . |
| 25 | His glance swept all three of us challengingly : as if one could possibly forget a Surkov improvisation ! |
| 26 | ‘ One could certainly build a theory around it . |
| 27 | There was a greater choice in colour and one could now acquire a purple cashmere for one 's wife or a navy serge for a deceased child . |
| 28 | One could then make a multiple stimulus-response drill where two stimuli are given each time , and you have to choose the appropriate verb form . |
| 29 | It seemed ridiculous that anyone could not clean a carburettor . |