Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [prep] such [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had not thought it possible that an innocent girl like Cora-Beth could think about such things , let alone voice them . |
| 2 | Mixed farming , peasant agriculture , especially that of commercially-minded rich peasants , could flourish in such situations . |
| 3 | The Lancashire ‘ cotton famine ’ , due to the cessation of cotton supplies during the American civil war of 1863–66 which caused severe unemployment and poverty , demonstrated most clearly that unemployment could be due to causes over which workers had no control ; it also demonstrated the peaceful fashion in which the labouring poor could behave in such circumstances . |
| 4 | He felt that his own game , bowls , could benefit from such movements and incorporated them into his performance . |
| 5 | We are now involved in even bigger projects , and the successful candidates could work for such companies as Ernst Oil , Stavro Construction and Blofeld Engineering . |
| 6 | The problem with this provision is that it could apply to such orders as the 1987 Order referred to in clause 1.10 , hence the suggested interpolation in that clause . |
| 7 | We could go to such places as the towns of Paisley , Barrhead , Airdrie , to villages like Kilbarchan , Millerston , Clarkston , and so on . |
| 8 | The Spanish could pay for such things out of their gold and silver ; the English could not afford such things , and ran fairly frugal colonial administrations , whose pay was often in arrears whether it was supposed to be paid by the English government , the colonial taxpayers , or the company which had a charter to operate in the region . |
| 9 | Unable to pump in compressed air to equalise the water pressure — the air pressure required would have exceeded legal limits — Fairclough and Thames had to find a machine that could operate under such conditions . |
| 10 | Laden wagons could shelter in such porches if the threshing floors were already occupied by other vehicles unloading . |
| 11 | It is difficult to imagine how the variable work of only one mosaicist could account for such differences : an explanation which merely supposes one mosaicist applying a number of contrasting methods of laying ( Part 1 , sections 3.8 — 3.10 ) must be suspect . |