Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She boasted that she had obtained an American wonderdrug called Cancell which could successfully treat these incurable diseases . |
| 2 | Well a cooker you definitely , a fridge say we could perhaps borrow that one of mum 's until we could afford one . |
| 3 | What place could better embody all that is best about the European identity ? |
| 4 | It could so happen that slight bile acid malabsorption may or may not affect bile acid synthesis . |
| 5 | Any of Lenin 's theories were unacceptable for us then , while from Marx one could only draw some methodological ways of thinking . |
| 6 | He fired just over following a charging run then Tonmlinson could only parry another full blooded drive . |
| 7 | He fired just over following a charging run then Tonmlinson could only parry another full blooded drive . |
| 8 | We could only surmise that alternative passages must have been worse . |
| 9 | One could only enter this sacred temple to snobbishness if one had a voucher of admission and they were harder to obtain than the stars out of the sky . |
| 10 | This makes the special position of the maternal uncle seem even more anomalous , and led Junod to suppose that we could only understand this peculiar relationship if we assumed that it represented an anachronistic throwback or ‘ survival ’ of an earlier matriarchal stage . |
| 11 | It is significant that a popular monarch , making war at the very start of his reign , after a long period of peace , could only raise such inadequate sums . |
| 12 | Septimus was younger than me and not very big and he could scarcely carry this big lovely dolly . |
| 13 | We could not identify all such workers as complete records have not survived and instead used the closest approximations possible — namely , records incorporating home address of all those ( more than 17000 ) attending the medical centre at the Sullom Voe oil terminal in Shetland during its construction phase ( believed to represent a high proportion of all but short stay workers ) ; 3500 construction workers at the Flotta oil terminal in Orkney ( incomplete data ) ; and more than 10000 offshore workers , being all those who obtained an offshore survival certificate ( required for such work ) in Scotland in the period from June 1976 ( the earliest date for which records have not been destroyed ) to 1980 . |
| 14 | But writing in 1987 , Fords could not identify any British university libraries conforming to the Atkinson mode . |
| 15 | Moreover , since it came to be accepted by many schools that a pupil could not study these separate subjects at A level unless he or she had already studied them at O level ( although in the 1950s it had been intended that O levels should be ‘ bypassed ’ by those who would study a subject at A level ) the domination of the university faculties began when a pupil was 14 . |
| 16 | And when she had thought sensation could not go any higher or wider or further , he touched her lightly and tenderly in the vulnerable V between her legs . |
| 17 | He could not talk any more . |
| 18 | The hall fell totally silent , and John Gummer was distinctly heard to say that he could not stand much more of it . |
| 19 | But it has been long established ( Habakkuk 1953 , McKeown and Brown 1955 ) that medical knowledge of the time could not cure any important cause of death , could prevent only smallpox , and with a few exceptions remained impotent until the present century . |
| 20 | It was such an utterly unexpected development that his mind could not register any immediate reaction beyond amazement . |
| 21 | Members of the Congress could not hold any other public post , and there were sanctions against absenteeism . |
| 22 | The English could not make that final spurt , establish dominance and impose their demands for the marriage . |
| 23 | After the talks , Hanan Ashrawi , the Palestinian spokeswoman , said there had been discussion of undisclosed new proposals , but the Palestinians could not make any final decisions without further consultations among themselves and with the Palestine Liberation Organisation in Tunis . |
| 24 | When examining the structure of local government and establishing the local government commission , one could not make any better start than the appointment of Sir John Banham as the chairman of the commission if one wants common sense , quality decision making and a tough-minded approach . |
| 25 | But for making certain general platitudinous statements , [ senior prison administrators ] could not make any significant contribution in suggesting solutions to the chronic problems of prison management . |
| 26 | She continued to attend the unit as an out-patient for more than six months , when the therapists felt they could not make any further progress . |
| 27 | She was so relieved to hear this that she could not make any further self-sacrifice . |
| 28 | It rained that Summer and when you thought it could not rain any more , it rained again . |
| 29 | Other travellers thought he was half mad or a man who could not forget some terrible crime . |
| 30 | She could not discredit this terrible truth . |