Example sentences of "could have [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Leeds City could not be suspended as a club — we had no power to do that ; but so long as they refused to give up those vital papers , we could have no way out save by expelling them . |
| 2 | He turned down a job in a famous public school and wrote to Aunt Lilian , a long , very high-flown letter , saying that he believed social segregation in education to be totally wrong and that he could have no part in perpetuating it . |
| 3 | Obviously they can not be expected to vet all the publications they sell , and it would be grossly unfair to hold them responsible for libels of which they could have no knowledge . |
| 4 | White men , he began , made the common mistake of assuming that , because the Aboriginals were wanderers , they could have no system of land tenure . |
| 5 | He therefore had the choice of making a new home somewhere or making his way back to a town about whose public feelings he could have no doubt , but knowing that if he did not change his ways the whole thing might happen again . |
| 6 | You could have no clue of their passion for snooker — bad snooker , at that — from the information they allow you on their book jackets . |
| 7 | She looked so relaxed and happy , smiling up at her husband , that George was convinced that she could have no idea that her attacker was employed by Stephen . |
| 8 | The English could have no idea , Bryher maintained , that America had a climate that varied from that of Norway to that of a Spanish summer , that much of America was made up of monotonous stretches of unbroken country , and that there were parts where only Swedish is spoken and others where seventeenth-century English remained almost intact . |
| 9 | He could have no idea at all of what was really wrong with her ; Sally-Anne was sure of that . |
| 10 | An obvious instance would be the contrast between the suggestion that although we understand the proposition that God exists , we could have no evidence that it is true , and the suggestion that the proposition is incomprehensible to us , and hence a fortiori we can neither know it to be true nor be justified in believing it . |
| 11 | The upper catwalks above the bay were crowded , and even the lower levels were occupied by small groups of senior survey staff who could have no excuse for their presence other than curiosity . |
| 12 | Jack could have no complaints . |
| 13 | It was sufficient for the king 's purpose to avoid excommunication , but Anselm could not yet return to England because ‘ not being willing [ as Eadmer reports ] in any way to violate his obedience to the pope ’ he could have no dealings with the king 's excommunicated ministers . |
| 14 | Firms that try to ignore the problem could have no defence at all . |
| 15 | She had finished ; he could have no complaint now . |
| 16 | And they knew that they could expect no reinforcements from Scotland while they could have no certainty that a second force was not closing in behind them from England , since clearly their movements had been known , and their return anticipated . |
| 17 | It is as if the discovery could have no meaning for anyone experiencing the novel — which would certainly be curious . |
| 18 | Frost 's Mill at Park Green is a large four-storey brick building of 1785 in characteristic factory style of the period , with the obligatory clock in the gable ( workers could have no excuses for being late for work ) . |
| 19 | Section 6(1) or 7(3A) of the UCTA could have no application in this situation . |
| 20 | I could have no place nor part in it . |
| 21 | Therefore , the right of national self-determination could have no place in the party programme . |
| 22 | On balance Voltaire 's maxim that the poor could have no patrie probably still held sound for the vast majority of Belorussian peasants in early NEP . |
| 23 | The lengthy , complicated and interesting case of Richard of Anstey ( of some two generations before Innocent III 's time ) shows how it was already accepted that the Crown could have no jurisdiction over the solemn sacrament of marriage , though at this stage the canon law of marriage and what actually constituted a legal marriage was extremely fluid . |
| 24 | This ‘ black day ’ , as he later called it , convinced the neutral ( and strongly socialist ) Barth that not only the political ideals of his teachers , but their underlying theology too , could have no future . |
| 25 | The baby 's mother said she only left her alone so the child could have a nap . |
| 26 | Mm , mm , of the King 's Cross Society you could have a King 's Cross |
| 27 | Fiona could continue with her pregnancy , taking strong drugs , the side-effects of which were not yet really known , or she could have a termination . |
| 28 | Well if I could have a bungalow the same as I' ve got now I would n't care . |
| 29 | A friend said it would be wonderful if she could have a wood with an obelisk where she could go and sit , ’ says Gwyn . |
| 30 | She said Diana could have a divorce but she would have to leave the country . |