Example sentences of "could [verb] that [det] [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 | But he could sense that this place was permanent , it was his home . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Nellie was convinced it would pass , even though she could feel that both children had high temperatures . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When Mungo got down , he could see that more books were collecting dust under the bed . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Neither of us could claim that those exchanges have been free of the features that I have just identified . |
| 15 | Now you could claim that this work is it 's obviously vocational is n't it . |
| 16 | Only the utterly naïve or the determinedly blind could believe that any government activity near to election time does not have electoral implications . |
| 17 | Within its own terms this book is successful , but one could suggest that those terms are restrictive and hardly do justice to the breadth and variety of Shakespeare 's style . |
| 18 | If we take the optimistic view , we could suggest that any group of wage-earners who managed to secure a wage increase of 60 per cent can not have ended the period to any real degree worse off than they began it . |
| 19 | If the male , by his displacement activity , conveys that he is in a state of conflict between attacking the female and behaving sexually towards her , she could detect that this male is interested in her . |
| 20 | If we now ask how we could discover that all action is to be explained in non-intentional terms , and at the same time take the point that it could not be non-intentional in the way that mad or childish behaviour is , it seems that we should have to come to see all action quite differently . |
| 21 | On the other they could indicate that more women are reporting the crime . |
| 22 | It did n't seem much on its own but , when it was added to other suggested improvements , it could mean that each operator could put four parts on to each car in the same time . ’ |
| 23 | The statements could relate to past facts ( i. e. they could mean that those services were provided last season ) or they could relate only to the future ( i.e. that they will be provided next season ) . |
| 24 | I could foresee that these factors might lose us the seat — even if the Conservative vote was on its best politically correct behaviour on polling day . |
| 25 | You could say that most winters in Baldersdale are too long , and every time we have a really bad one it takes something away from me in a physical sense . |
| 26 | It might be a good guess today if I could say that most people either done as much as they could with their model and had this |
| 27 | In the matter of social balance one could say that most sea-stories , from the time of Marryat onwards , romanticised fact at least by omission . |
| 28 | If a reader in the year 2040 , let us say , needs to see large-scale mapping of the villages of the Yorkshire Dales covering the period 1995–2040 , he/she could find that that record has not been preserved in any library . |
| 29 | NEARLY 2m British tourists visiting France this summer could find that some hotels and restaurants will not accept their Eurocheques because of ‘ exorbitant ’ transaction charges being imposed by French banks . |
| 30 | One could argue that such complaints constitute some kind of rationale for a general feeling that there are too many incomers in the area . |