Example sentences of "[indef pn] could imagine " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may be a cult in the making — and one could imagine a film by Antonioni , whose script-writer , Mark Peploe , was intrigued by J. Behrens in his last days . |
| 2 | Since no one could imagine that in these circumstances or in any other circumstances anyone could successfully impersonate Ramsey , the ritual was a piece of legal nothing which allowed a Protestant agitator the chance of publicity which might help his own cause but must also help Ramsey . |
| 3 | One could imagine a ‘ price pause ’ for a limited time ; but after that — is there something familiar about all this ? — one would have to start discovering which prices ought to rise and which ought to fall to offset them , and this is just what we want a commission to do for us because we pretend that we do n't know how to do it for ourselves . |
| 4 | One could imagine the room to be one in Bacon 's House of Solomon , about which Joseph Glanvill remarked that it was ‘ a prophetic scheme of the Royal Society ’ . |
| 5 | They are the last people on earth one could imagine to be dancers . |
| 6 | In another mood , while gazing down into the vapour one could imagine the turbulent creation of the Earth with the alpha tracks like mountain ranges constantly forming , disappearing and reforming . |
| 7 | A sailor set Hathi , a small stuffed elephant on wheels , on the luggage chute ; Hathi had come with us because no one could imagine our youngest sister , Rose , without him . |
| 8 | One could imagine her at a shires garden party or a race meeting . |
| 9 | Although the interference pattern C and the single hump patterns of B look about as dissimilar from each other as one could imagine , there is in fact a hidden mathematical connection between them . |
| 10 | Whenever kids are near he goes out of his way to pick them up and snuggle and kiss them , sometimes more tenderly than one could imagine their parents doing . |
| 11 | They dragged him down into horrors he said no one could imagine . |
| 12 | When Dermo says ‘ Let's get foonky woonky ’ in his Mancunian draw , it 's as far from a fitting description of their music as one could imagine . |
| 13 | How live bullets had got into it no one could imagine . |
| 14 | One could imagine him in the witness box , speaking in a dull monotone , taking his time to answer counsel 's questions and giving clear , unshakable explanations or admitting his ignorance plainly . |
| 15 | With it she wore an imitation of a sailor 's hat — if one could imagine a sailor 's hat with a broad brim and long navy blue streamers — and she looked extremely desirable in her cheap finery . |
| 16 | One could imagine the early days of the place , when Blondin had walked on a tightrope across the Great Hall , when 20,000 Wolf Cubs rallying to honour Rudyard Kipling unleashed their " Great Howl " in 1922 , or when what were reputed to be the greatest firework displays in Europe were held there . |
| 17 | When Dermo says ‘ Let's get foonky woonky ’ in his Mancunian draw , it 's as far from a fitting description of their music as one could imagine . |
| 18 | But no one could imagine what was to come . |
| 19 | I would , myself , be very keen to look at the possibility of such machines perhaps even going to third world countries , because it 's even arguable that the place for such intelligence systems is not to replace expert medical people in this country where we have such people , but to export them to developing countries which do n't have such people , and one could imagine , perhaps , a system of erm paramedical orderlies , who had some sort of medical knowledge and manipulative skill , taking a small expert computer in a shoe box — it would be no bigger — to villages and getting diagnoses of patient illnesses there on the spot . |
| 20 | So far as the Local Authority is concerned , it 's still got to act within the bounds of the National Curriculum , for example , and erm I suppose theoretically one could imagine a Local Authority doing malevolent and malignant with schools but that 's |
| 21 | André Previn has described Karajan as ‘ the great motivator ’ ; Ashkenazy has called him ‘ a great intuitive musician who communicates as well as anyone could imagine ’ . |
| 22 | But I saw judgement in your face , and it shattered me , precisely because I know I must seem to deserve the very worst that anyone could imagine . |
| 23 | The name Mad Axe is about as inappropriate as anyone could imagine . |
| 24 | It 's worse than anyone could imagine , worse even than the local people realize . |
| 25 | And there was very little everything and more nothing than anyone could imagine . |
| 26 | ‘ Of course I 'd bear a grudge , ’ said Lydia , amazed that anyone could imagine she might not . |
| 27 | The only means he has of doing that is by accepting new clause S. He will have to come up with very convincing arguments to persuade any Hon. Member that he can not accept it , but it is framed in the most uncontentious way anyone could imagine . |
| 28 | It was a more horrible sight than anyone could imagine — a hell-hound sent by the devil . |