Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | In different forms it could provide marriage market ( 21st birthday party or coming-out-ball ) , gynaecological information service ( women withdrew from male company at some point during the evening ) , a seasonal celebration of community spirit ( harvest home , yuletide ) or a mark of respect to a human life ( funeral , wake ) . |
| 2 | There 's nobody in this room who could n't win a sprint race against a sumo wrestler now , without any practice , even in stockinged feet you could do it . |
| 3 | In extreme cases you could even face prosecution . |
| 4 | Reich 's use of ethnographic evidence is suspect , but in general terms it could be admitted that there could in Freudian theory be differences of the type which Reich pointed out , even if his evidence may not have been carefully formulated . |
| 5 | ‘ It strikes me that in new clothes you could be highly presentable . |
| 6 | In other words they could overcome the debilitating impact of high unemployment and the government 's attempts it deflation which had clearly weakened the trade union movement 's powers of resistance during the early 1920s . |
| 7 | In other words it could be correct me if I 'm wrong |
| 8 | Could that be for example because males with resources would want normally to acquire youthful wives , or perhaps it might in other words it could be could n't it that if males provide resources to females that they can use for primal investment , this would then have selective effects on females who will want certain things in order to get erm the investment and one of the things they might want to do is to look youthful . |
| 9 | ‘ In other words you could n't bear the thought that there might just be one female in a hundred-mile radius who did n't fall apart at the seams every time you deigned to smile in her direction , ’ she spat back . |
| 10 | Okay Assumptions for Pearson 's are It assumes that there 's an n an approximate linear relationship between , in other words you could cos what it 's trying to do is draw a straight line through it . |
| 11 | Once they were in place , not only could peasants buy ( rather than just occupy ) their dwelling-places , but also in certain circumstances they could " acquire in full ownership " the land which the charters assigned them . |
| 12 | Virtually all gifts ( in certain circumstances you could have to pay tax if the gift is above £3,000 or if , as may occasionally be the case , the money from the donor has not been previously taxed ) . |
| 13 | ‘ In past years I could have authorized it , ’ Potter says . |