Example sentences of "could [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you went to a summer party in 1970 , ’ said Joanne Brogden , Professor of Fashion at the Royal College of Art , ‘ you could guarantee that most women would be wearing a long ‘ Laura Ashley ’ skirt or dress . |
| 2 | I thought if only I could steal that some time and destroy it , maybe she 'd have no proof of what was owed her . |
| 3 | I wonder if Pemberton-Billing would be pleased if he could know that modern Laservision discs and Compact Digital Discs work on a similar principle , although starting in the middle and slowing down . |
| 4 | But he could sense that this place was permanent , it was his home . |
| 5 | But this makes it all the more unreasonable to suppose that any a priori argument could show that one strategy will always be the right one . |
| 6 | We began this section by stating that under certain conditions we could show that free enterprise or free markets led to a Pareto-efficient allocation . |
| 7 | Future studies could show that genetic changes in gene families could have effects on any aspect of phenotype , from sexual behaviour to morphology , and might also influence the behaviour of chromosomes and the expression of genes . |
| 8 | A more sensitive way of handling elder abuse , including counselling and the rapid introduction of relief services could show that this phenomenon is a recognised concomitant of the excessive strains of caring , especially for mentally impaired elderly people ( Traynor and Hasnip , 1984 ) . |
| 9 | The report will also suggest policy options which could ensure that important data collected by ESRC-funded projects is not unnecessarily lost in the future . |
| 10 | Griffiths , for example , wanted decisive central government action to ensure that clear objectives and priorities were set , but no such central direction was contained in Caring for People and no mechanisms were devised by which the government could ensure that local planning and implementation were consistent with national priorities ; indeed , no such priorities were set . |
| 11 | Five ‘ O ’ Levels , including English Language , was the normally acceptable minimum , though popular subjects , universally taught in secondary schools , could expect that most students would offer a level of qualification rather better than that . |
| 12 | If , for example , we were to find the same results in the Social Attitudes Survey in the year 2006 , we could assume that these results are conditional upon age . |
| 13 | Nellie was convinced it would pass , even though she could feel that both children had high temperatures . |
| 14 | He writes that this evidence , together with several other timings in crucial copies and printer 's proofs of the score , reveals that ‘ during Mahler 's lifetime , performances of the Adagietto by the composer as well as by his close colleagues averaged about eight minutes … if Mahler 's timings reflected only his mood at a particular concert one could understand that some conductors might not feel compelled to follow his tempos . |
| 15 | It was not something he had considered much before now , but he could see that outstanding looks could be more of a curse than a blessing . |
| 16 | Looking about him , he could see that tiny segments of woodwork from the floor he was waxing and polishing and from the doors he was stripping of paint , had been removed with delicate precision . |
| 17 | From my rooftop I could see that one side of the prayer hall roof had collapsed . |
| 18 | Eventually through reasonably correct bid evaluation , we began to learn how to cost out inferior bids , when we had a very very low bid in we could see that certain things had been skimped , certain things might even have been missed out completely , and we then began to cost the effect of that on the organization . |
| 19 | We had a big management shakeup in BHS when I could see that certain people were just not going to change their spots . |
| 20 | The studio could see that labour-management relations were not a suitable theme for feature films and no attempt was ever made to repeat this particular experiment . |
| 21 | When Mungo got down , he could see that more books were collecting dust under the bed . |
| 22 | It came from the direction of the strangely attired man in the dock , and the more observant members of the jury could see that this bell was attached to the end of the man 's hat . |
| 23 | As the sepoys , sensing that heir chance had now come to abolish the feringhees from the face of the earth , massed for a great assault , the Collector could see that this time a giant wave was coming . |
| 24 | I was aware what could happen , I could see that any weakness was pounced upon by the other boys and I knew that I was n't big enough or belligerent enough to bully my way out of it . |
| 25 | In a revolution , where any decision may suddenly raise questions about freedom , justice , in a new form , and where every aspect of life may be brought under scrutiny , it could follow that all action , all weighing of pros and cons , is unprincipled . |
| 26 | One could argue that the similarity is coincidental ; alternatively , one could claim that similar conditions have evoked a similar response to two events separated by half a century . |
| 27 | Idealists could claim that British policy had been tardy and hesitant . |
| 28 | Neither of us could claim that those exchanges have been free of the features that I have just identified . |
| 29 | Now you could claim that this work is it 's obviously vocational is n't it . |
| 30 | Only the utterly naïve or the determinedly blind could believe that any government activity near to election time does not have electoral implications . |