Example sentences of "[det] [noun] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er in paragraph a hundred and eight of that paper and I 'd I 'd like to read er read a quotation out , However because an exception is not acknowledged it does not mean that provision could not be made for this . |
| 2 | That finding could not be disclosed , for its publication would have revealed the regime 's double dishonesty , in suppressing the truth and in using the incident to justify repressive measures against the liberalizers in the university and to rally the faithful around Franco . |
| 3 | That money could have been used : |
| 4 | In spite of her apparent self-confidence , in spite of her twenty-five years , in spite of having had the best that money could buy since she was a little girl , there was an ingenuousness about Harriet which sprung from a yearning need to prove herself — to her father , to her contemporaries , to the whole wide world . |
| 5 | That money could have gone to so many good causes . |
| 6 | Smart-liveried , amply motor-homed , luxurious to a degree , fully equipped with the best that money could buy in research and development , McLaren made a thoroughly businesslike and professional attack on the championships . |
| 7 | And it is fanciful to suggest that an order on Mr. Tully to say whether he has received Abbey 's money and if so what has happened to that money could result in his ill-treatment or in a dubious confession . |
| 8 | Burkett observed that money could even buy speed as they swung the precisely crafted oars through the beautifully modelled oarlocks . |
| 9 | Then that money could be made available to areas in Scotland where coal mining has contracted , such as Midlothian . |
| 10 | Even the wealthy New York Jewish financiers , the Guggenheims , Kuhns , Sachs , Seligmanns and Lehmanns , who had all that money could buy in the United States , which was very nearly everything , were not yet Americans in the way in which the Wertheimsteins in Vienna considered themselves Austrian , the Bleichroeders in Berlin Prussians , even the international Rothschilds in London and Paris , English and French . |
| 11 | I 'm very sorry about that because I believe that that money could be better spent within the fire service on other matters to provide a much better service to the general public . |
| 12 | That money could have electrified railways that would 've given industry a chance to get its goods into Europe . |
| 13 | Little progress could be made until these cancers could be reproduced by experiments in animals . |
| 14 | I mean , if you , if you into , if you were trying to look into building or commercial and you had to send them a planning application for it , you 'd have to prove that building could support the weight . |
| 15 | That Romania could build a nuclear weapon at the moment is unlikely . |
| 16 | Again , if the court holds that a particular decision was unreasonable , that decision could not lawfully be made again . |
| 17 | If the decision of the Secretary of State as to the correct tariff after going through the consultation process is so out of touch with reality that it is irrational then , as in Ex parte Handscomb , that decision could be the subject of judicial review . |
| 18 | Moreover , as Goulding J had found , each salesman could quickly commit the whole of the sales information relating to his own area to memory . |
| 19 | In neither instance could it reasonably be said that student choice was as wide open as the Shores model would require , and the main area of decision was at what time to go to one 's carrel and enter the process . |
| 20 | The river was running fast and I learnt later that bathing could be perilous . |
| 21 | And each building could be a farm in itself , housing animals and machinery on the ground floor , humans above that , wine and vegetables in the cellar and hay in the loft under the steep-pitched tile roof . |
| 22 | This is similar to ‘ Frankenstein ’ because the innocent people are the victims and the scientists in each story could n't control their creations . |
| 23 | In fact there were only 12 points between 20th and 6th places , a couple of away wins and a little luck could have seen us finish around 8th . |
| 24 | Eventually , each user could carry their personal interface on a pocket-sized ‘ smart ’ card . |
| 25 | that Colin could go and do a good job |
| 26 | Each would be asked to notify the IMF within one month whether it agreed to its share as determined by the IMF ; each successor could formally accede to the IMF once it had met the formal conditions specified . |
| 27 | If , on the other hand , the adult had signed a contract , not of guarantee , but of indemnity , that contract could be enforced against the adult even if the minor 's contract was void , Yeoman Credit Ltd. v. Latter ( 1961 ) . |
| 28 | That contract could have been avoided but was not . |
| 29 | The information was also required to ascertain what assessment materials could be included at different levels of a graduated test scheme so that pupils taking each level could achieve a high degree of success . |
| 30 | The fact that elements could change from one into another was the startling discovery and had renewed interest in an old idea of William Prout , the nineteenth-century British chemist , that hydrogen could be the primordial substance from which all other atomic elements , including helium , were constructed . |