Example sentences of "could the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , it seemed , could the political revolution . |
| 2 | The second thing was I asked , and nobody picked it up , five , five years he 'd been working could the net earnings related carry forward ? |
| 3 | How could the working class make effective use of the political power which the vote was expected to give them without the opportunity to engage in an open discussion of political principle and perspectives ? |
| 4 | But what solution could the early fish find to the problem of breathing out of water ? |
| 5 | It shows how the Word could give birth to commentators ’ words , as could the castrated Origen , but gives no acceptable explanation of how it could produce Origen . |
| 6 | What more could the booming garbage industry want ? |
| 7 | But how could the warring states of Europe be persuaded to abandon national sovereignty to the degree necessary to make collective security a reality ? |
| 8 | Could the real purpose of Sandra 's visit to the doctor 's be to fix her up with contraception ? |
| 9 | Maybe you could the only way we could do it is er a joint account and that would be have to be based on trust you know , a mutual trust between er y your two main people er y you would just have to trust them erm nobody , how do members feel about if you |
| 10 | erm it does n't give an answer , but if you could the only answer it could give is that what my tables say is wrong . |
| 11 | Only by massive development of her technology and human skill , her ‘ productive forces ’ , could the economic base of socialism in Russia be laid ; only by the formation of an organized proletariat could socialist revolution be carried out . |
| 12 | And could the mysterious Voyager Times Two responsible for Inertia 's Saturn-skimming ‘ Satisfaction ’ be Carl Craig himself ? |
| 13 | Could the new venture , which will trade under the name of Wilson Sumner , see a return to the sales techniques which earned Allied Dunbar the nickname ‘ Allied Crowbar ’ ? |
| 14 | But where could the new , economically powerful Germany find outlets for its production ? |
| 15 | But , asks STEVE BALE , could the new steel up front be undermined , as one critic said , by ‘ Too many walkers , not enough runners … |
| 16 | Only if effective consumer demand was increased could the new productive powers of industry be used at their full potential and unemployment avoided . |
| 17 | The coalition facilitated a realignment from the two-party Liberal-Unionist contest in 1914 to the Labour-Conservative battles of the late 1920s ; only with the triumph of coalition in 1916 did the old politics die , and only with the destruction of coalitionism in 1924 could the new politics be born . |
| 18 | Only then could the new prime minister formally take up the vast burden of his office . |
| 19 | Lancashire Region to move and could the other speakers move , and seconders , additional speakers , come down to the rostrum please |
| 20 | How else could the unhung paintings be catered for ? |
| 21 | What Jane could never understand , looking back , was : if this was a successful example of British industry ( Queen 's Award for Export and all that ) , whatever could the unsuccessful ones be like ? |
| 22 | Could the gradual slowing down be an attempt to draw the movement out to more orthodox Mahlerian scale ? |
| 23 | A leading argument deployed by the ILP and its supporters at the Labour Party conference was that only by quitting the Government could the Labour Party hope to retain its authority with ‘ the men in the workshops ’ and thus avert ‘ the terrible danger of insurrection . ’ |
| 24 | Many Labour Party members drew the conclusion that only by building a United Front with the small British Communist Party could the Labour Party be strengthened . |
| 25 | Could , could , could the ordinary people tell the difference between the Borough Police |
| 26 | What practical advice could the armed forces offer to someone who contemplated taking out a private prosecution ? |
| 27 | Could that person obtain advice from people in the armed forces who have legal training , or could the armed forces obtain that sort of advice for the person seeking it ? |
| 28 | If it were accepted that the parties have no legal rights and duties under a political treaty , then even less could the legal position of third parties be affected by it . |
| 29 | Could the subtle sound of a choir not benefit from this ? |
| 30 | In the interests of establishing the causes of the present mortgage crisis , could the Prime Minister confirm that , as Minister of State for Social Security , he halved mortgage support for newly unemployed people and that , as Chancellor of the Exchequer , he put the mortgage rate up to its highest in history ? |