Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Panel said that the conversations imparted material new information which had not been made public or could not be made public . |
| 2 | In the face of criticism from the other judges of Angell and Pownall for overstepping their instructions , Burn thought that because ‘ of their experience and their minute examination of the plans , which was far more minute than could have been done by the judges ’ , it would be helpful to have their placings . |
| 3 | ‘ It was a direct result of seeing the need for something different that could allow people to go out to sea no matter what the weather was like outside , that I went to see the lifeboat just over a year ago . ’ |
| 4 | That could have been painful that could you bitch . |
| 5 | ‘ Corporal ’ — her voice was clear and could have been that of a schoolteacher reprimanding — ‘ I have n't much opinion of my legs , but I can assure you you are not the type of man I would allow within parade ground distance of them , let alone pull them . ’ |
| 6 | The links between research , policy and practice are very clear and could be cost-effective ( ! ) but to date most of the resources for dealing with the aftermath of marital breakdown have been allocated to the judicial system . |
| 7 | You then begin to build up a story line , a structure and something which could be called interesting and could be the start of interesting idea . |
| 8 | And er I had a letter back on the Friday from Stuart to say er according to Mr 's description it was very interesting and could I possibly meet him at Station on the Saturday morning . |
| 9 | But the choruses in L'incoronazione ( of Seneca 's household , Act II , SC.3 , of ‘ Consuli e Tribuni ’ in the penultimate scene ) are almost nugatory and could have been sung by a handful of soloists , while the instrumental ensemble in the best source , the manuscript in the Biblioteca Marciana , Venice , consists mainly of only two parts — perhaps taken by only one player each — over the basso continuo . |
| 10 | But the design of the old , serrated sickle was also outstanding in another way : it was light and could be used all day , even by women , without the reaper tiring unduly . |
| 11 | He was aware that he was infuriating Ludovico by his opposition to the plan but everything he knew about his friend convinced him that the idea of a whirlwind marriage was wrong and could end only in disaster . |
| 12 | The Profitboss gets to the top because he believes that he could be wrong and could do better . |
| 13 | PRIVATISING prisons is morally wrong and could result in violence and bloodshed , the Scottish Prison Officers ' Association annual conference at Inverness heard yesterday . |
| 14 | However , the patterns used in these studies were extremely coarse and could probably be discriminated by developing tricks like scanning the eyes across the stimuli and judging how much the brightness changes during the course of the scan . |
| 15 | ‘ This is bad timing in the political season as emotions are running high and could be taken higher , ’ said President Aquino 's press secretary , Mr Horacio Paredes . |
| 16 | Each scarp is a few tens of metres high and could be the solidified flow front of a lava sheet . |
| 17 | Ray thinks the stray is about ten years old and could be a collie cross . |
| 18 | He was almost illiterate and could make only one speech , which he had painstakingly learnt by heart . |
| 19 | Do n't let toddlers lean into the basket from the seat — they 're top-heavy and could topple . |
| 20 | Thomas , who also knew nothing about the affair , was highly embarrassed and could only say that he would make enquiries . |
| 21 | ( Catalogues of the Great Exhibition of 1851 commented that although the black walnut of North America produced wood which was of a rich purple-brown and could be obtained in very large plants , it was ‘ but little employed by the cabinet makers ’ in Great Britain ) . |
| 22 | The solution : Roger Wickens ' death was murder , not suicide ; he was left-handed and could not have shot himself as described . |
| 23 | Slower decisions are made to nonwords such as " burd " and " phace " rather than those like " deve " and " slist " , even though all four are word-like and could conceivably be words . |
| 24 | And nerves too when you have a finger whose paralysed and could n't remove it and put in a nerve and then they could work again . |
| 25 | Charlie obviously had some running arrangement with the night manager , getting the use of some part of the hotel that stood empty and could all be set straight again before morning . |
| 26 | Dismissing the appeal , the Lord Chief Justice , Lord Taylor , said the sentence for manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility — which he said did not mean total loss of responsibility — was entirely proper and could not be faulted . |
| 27 | Sometimes the ultimate question is only in theory left to the public authority ; for example , in some cases of review for jurisdictional errors of law or fact in which it is clear that if the authority had got the law or the facts right , its decision would have been different and could only have been one way . |
| 28 | In international law too , the strict rule was inconvenient and could cause hardship to third parties whose interests were adversely affected by treaties from which they were excluded . |
| 29 | It treats us arbitrarily , as though we were mindless and could not care . |
| 30 | In the television debate Mr Goddard sounded like a petulant school master who was sure that a pupil had done something wrong but could n't prove it . |