Example sentences of "could in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we set the poem 's rubric , which informs us that we shall be reading a fabliau , on one side for the moment , we could in the first stanza be looking at a tail-rhyme romance — a type familiar in English literature from the fourteenth century . |
| 2 | I mean , I , I did what I could in the fifth issue , but you just run out of cash , that 's the trouble , but I mean the sixth issue is good . |
| 3 | Older senses survived , too ; and , under the impact of Romanticism , ‘ popular songs ’ could in the nineteenth century also be thought of as synonymous with ‘ peasant ’ , ‘ national ’ and ‘ traditional ’ songs . ’ |
| 4 | I feel now that I can express myself better than I ever could in the last fifteen years ; I 've even gotten into the Mississippi Delta style , fingerpicking blues . |
| 5 | Chairmen did not always agree with this interpretation , though they were aware that the Central Authority could in the last resort compel compliance by issuing a directive . |
| 6 | The paradox is that this sudden , violent , essentially mindless process ( the could in the last line underlines the ‘ demoniac compulsion to which the divine bird himself is subject ’ ) is the cause of events of enormous , tragic magnitude for the human race : the birth of Helen and the Trojan war . |
| 7 | The king 's " boys " were trained for war , and could in the last resort be used as a sort of flying squad to coerce a recalcitrant local potens on his home-ground . |