Example sentences of "[adv] could [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As William Smith had understood , contact , — friendship , — influence , — were the means by which not only could the youth be rescued and disciplined , but also civilized . |
| 2 | Not only could the possibility of salvation be rejected , both James Stephen and Clarkson affirmed , but men and women had sufficiently free will , ‘ to render us justly responsible … for all the sins we commit in this our state of trial ’ . |
| 3 | How long could the French king continue to ignore the thief in his back garden ? |
| 4 | ‘ In the same way as a working person and a taxpayer makes a specific contribution to the upkeep of the national health system , so could a specific premium or tax be levied to support publicly funded legal services , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Well — if a little squirt of a bower-bird could do it — so could a cassowary ! |
| 6 | So could the Portfolio work its passage in the average pocket ? |
| 7 | If St Paul could appeal to Caesar , so could the bishops opposed to Paul of Samosata . |
| 8 | He could have been the driver of the Mercedes at the Hilton Hotel , but then so could the majority of Mainz 's male population . |
| 9 | So could the wiser clients . |
| 10 | But if he could distinguish and recognize , so could the other . ’ |
| 11 | If the level was set too high , Michael could hear all right , but unfortunately so could the rest of the theatre , in a sort of ghostly pre-echo . |
| 12 | Thus could a parent make a fairly reasonable answer which would acknowledge that the child is not silly , and has a perfect right to be treated in an adult way when he asks a serious question . |
| 13 | Thus could the very first and important step in the rise of god-worship have been initiated , by making it unnecessary for there to be an actual physical connection between the objects of faith and the believer . |
| 14 | No longer could the hanging be seen as a threat ; it was now a promise . |
| 15 | No longer could the peasant derive the necessaries of life from the materials , the soil , and the resources of his own strong arms . |
| 16 | Held , that in the opinion of the court , ( 1 ) a stay for delay or any other reason was to be imposed only in exceptional circumstances ; that , even where delay could be said to be unjustifiable , the imposition of a permanent stay was to be the exception rather than the rule ; and that even more rarely could a stay properly be imposed in the absence of fault on the part of the complainant or the prosecution , and never where the delay was due merely to the complexity of the case or contributed to by the defendant 's actions ( post , pp. 18H — 19A ) . |
| 17 | But think of it , emotional charity from a couple of eight-year-olds — how low could a person possibly get ? |
| 18 | Also could the later dual master cylinder , as opposed to the single piston one , now fitted ( with or without servo ) , be put on without major surgery ? |
| 19 | How far could a minister of the people be educated beyond their level ? |
| 20 | The second question is this : if the trustee had sold ( or otherwise alienated ) the trust property , how far could the beneficiary pursue his rights against third parties ? |
| 21 | Now could a man have a cup of tea in this place does anyone think ? ’ |
| 22 | Well , I move rapidly from these dispiriting erm thoughts erm to say something about the third and last point , the question of memory , because even could the artist recreate , in the way that I 've tried to suggest , through an awareness of time , and through a , a rejection of the intellect , even if he could recreate in this way reality present to him in time , how is he to make contact with the past ? |
| 23 | How then could the meeting at Amsterdam pose as a meeting of Christendom when the largest Church in the world refused to have anything to do with it ? |
| 24 | She was trying to forge permanent links between France and Scotland because only then could the house of Valois survive against the monstrous growth of Hapsburg power , centred on Spain and the Empire , controlling the Netherlands and , in the very year she became regent , clutching England into its maw with the marriage of Philip and Mary . |
| 25 | Only then could the swop , from one tank to another , take place . |
| 26 | How then could the British government act to save the nodule-mining industry from being stillborn ? |
| 27 | They perceived that a fundamental requirement was to develop a scientific and reproducible method for measuring the efficiency of load carrying , for only then could the value of changes in rucksack design be compared accurately . |
| 28 | Only then could the new prime minister formally take up the vast burden of his office . |
| 29 | Nowhere else could a sign be displayed saying : ‘ No loitering in this yard except on business . ’ |
| 30 | What else could a man and a woman need , I repeated to myself , except each other ? |