Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | It merely appeared to him a paradox worth someone 's attention : how a man such as Thorkel described could inspire what Thorkel undoubtedly felt for him . |
| 2 | He did see himself very much as a responsible figure as far as other people 's well being was concerned when it came to this , and this was probably based on the fact that his step-brother , Terry , by his mother 's previous marriage , was classified as schizophrenic , a problem which David felt could be hereditary . ’ |
| 3 | Donna said could n't Steve and Angelica both have been killed by a mallet ? |
| 4 | Conductivities are similar to those in the Basin and Range province of North America ( 0.1Sm -1 ) , which Bott considered could be due to a melt fraction in highly conducting rock . |
| 5 | Any odd QDMs received could be caused by your passing overhead the DF facility . |
| 6 | A political interest , however , as Colonel Haldane demonstrated could overcome the opposition of powerful politicians , and the chief casualties were often the little people , like the unfortunate John Main , caught in the battle of interests . |
| 7 | Harvey , though , was suffering from a pulled muscle in his right leg , which Worrell knew could be a handicap against spinners . |
| 8 | Even the quest for fire , an element of nature taken for granted in the twentieth century , Whitaker felt could be held up as an artifact of wonder through the medium of Doctor Who . |
| 9 | We saw how it was with the plants and the seeds , and the birds and their eggs but the animals God made could not make nests and lay eggs , because they were so much larger . |
| 10 | Other areas which Mr Chambers believed could drain funds from the UK included the former Soviet republics , Iran and Venezuela . |
| 11 | To North Korea Japan posed a powerful latent threat : the United States and Japan combined could install themselves in South Korea , boost its economy and armed forces , and encourage subversion against North Korea . |
| 12 | Erm Amy said could you find out as soon as possible about your church person , erm , because she 's got to get somebody else if they 're no good and er Elsie 's going to find out . |
| 13 | But surely the Richard Jobson listed could not be the Richard Jobson , singer , model , TV presenter poet etc etc ? |
| 14 | Nothing Edouard said could overcome this opposition . |
| 15 | That 's been dropped too , because the GaAs semiconductor house CDC used could only get a yield of 2% good parts . |
| 16 | Everything Golitsin claimed could be proved or disproved according to which set of arguments one wishes to accept . |
| 17 | So it was Jones ' motivation — the possibility that fusion was at work within the Earth and possibly responsible for its heat , even though he saw none directly , that the University of Utah felt could derail priority for their own heat measurements . |