Example sentences of "could [adv] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought he could jolly well do it better than Hoomey and co : he could swim and run , at least , which was halfway there , and he bet he could learn riding quicker than them . |
| 2 | Then he could jolly well get on with things — and came out into the passage . |
| 3 | When the European Communities Act 1972 became law each House of Parliament set up a committee to advise on how scrutiny of European legislation could most effectively take place . |
| 4 | Henry , therefore , asked Clement to establish a decretal commission , authorizing the cardinal and papal legate , Thomas Wolsey , to make a judgment on the case in England , where he could most easily influence the outcome . |
| 5 | It was quickly recognised that effective learning could most easily take place when opportunities were created frequently throughout each day , in a relaxed familiar setting and with a trusted companion . |
| 6 | In the British context , Wenger ( 1984 ) found that married people were most likely to name a spouse as the person in whom they could most easily confide ; people who had never been married were most likely to name a brother or sister ; widows were most likely to name a child ; and in general , the likelihood that a child would be named increased with age . |
| 7 | Perhaps the aspect of the postwar settlement to which he could most easily reconcile himself was decolonization , because that at least could be understood within a fundamentally nationalist framework . |
| 8 | Barons could most readily huff and stomp when they did indeed own their papers , rather than being chairmen , liable to be sacked by their directors . |
| 9 | By 1915 it had become one of the obsessions by which Curtis was possessed serially in the course of his long and active career , and , of all his many projects , the political evolution of India was the one where he could most truly claim to have made a direct contribution to events . |
| 10 | I conclude that this book could most definitely happen , in fact it is happening all the time in our lives although we are protected by our parents who are conditioned to life . |
| 11 | He would then be able to judge to which of the latter he could most advantageously give his second preference , and this informed choice could well not be the same as the " blind " choice the STV obliges him to make . |
| 12 | If your interest in the past centres on some figure in particular from days gone by you could perhaps not do better than to consider whether he or she would make a detective , as the American writer Lilian de la Torre did with a series of short stories about Dr Sam Johnson , Detector . |
| 13 | Erm the only thing that occurred to me I just wondered if she knew somebody who had a dearly loved dog that , did n't want to train it but you know she could perhaps just take along for the joy of running it and training it but I think part of the pleasure is the reflected glory you know it 's my dog |
| 14 | As a non-philosopher I always used to find that a slightly depressing statement , that of Ayer 's about beauty , and it seemed to me that one could perhaps immediately follow that by saying ‘ Just because there 's a word for it maybe , you have it because you like it and you want to use it and is n't that self- validating in a sense ? ’ |
| 15 | One could perhaps likewise argue that the joining of the office of muderris of Suleyman 's medrese in Damascus with the muftilik in this case the muftilik certainly predated the medrese was an attempt to strengthen the position of the Hanafi mufti , or , alternatively , an attempt to " Ottomanize " the muftilik , since with the foundation of the medrese the joint post passed at least temporarily from the hands of local scholars into those of Ottoman scholars ; but it may equally well be that Suleyman was doing no more than following established custom in assigning the muderrislik to the mufti . |
| 16 | ‘ It is beyond what present-day science knows but new developments could perhaps eventually deal with it . ’ |
| 17 | Er in relation to King Street er car park , there are there are complications in relation to er the usage of the car parking spaces erm and the health centre and on street car parking erm and we are going to do er further work in surveying the usage of those spaces and how we could perhaps better allocate them to ensure that there are erm spaces available for people who need to get to the surgery and the subcommittee will be reporting back to the council . |
| 18 | I could so clearly see her coming between you and me , between us and our poetry , and I felt furiously jealous and unhappy but tried not to show it . |
| 19 | DeVore returned the bow , then turned , intrigued , wondering what it was about the boy that could so thoroughly spook the seemingly-imperturbable Douglas . |
| 20 | It could so nearly have cost him his life . |
| 21 | They are determined to find an answer to what could so nearly have been a tragedy . |
| 22 | Why bother , when we could so easily pay in cash ? |
| 23 | Just see how , in quite innocent conversation , she could so easily trip up ! |
| 24 | His tongue licked the small nerve-points that he could so easily locate , and she shivered even through the heat . |
| 25 | He had begun to feel that Carrie was really growing to love him , and having borne him his first child the future had seemed so promising , but now today he had been reminded that everything he had hoped and prayed for could so easily crumble into dust . |
| 26 | It is an important test , for impotence will not only be a poor recommendation of Community cohesion ; it could make it all the more difficult to stem the tide of bloody anarchy that could so easily engulf large tracts of Europe which we recently rejoiced to see set free . |
| 27 | There was something alarming in the way an eleven-year-old girl - or ‘ nearly twelve ’ as she kept saying — could so easily comport herself among a press of adults . |
| 28 | And with her jealousy came anger that he could so easily hold her in a close embrace while he still had Doreen in his system . |
| 29 | In an environment of danger , a touch on the shoulder could so easily mean arrest . |
| 30 | It could so easily spill over into civil disorder and violence . |