Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] could [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notwithstanding the problems it was clear that I could emulate to some extent the effect of the shoulder rotation ( shoulder torque ) and movement of the wrist ( wrist torque ) . |
| 2 | Breeze was fond of Schumann , but not so fond that she could listen to him now ! |
| 3 | He knew many people in the village , almost everyone except the newly arrived and the ones who used the village as a dormitory and who worked in Bath or Chippenham or Swindon , but he knew very few that he could classify as friends . |
| 4 | I think life would be easier if I could live with my husband who , because of his own professional commitments is in Cambridge every week . |
| 5 | Or if the ground was kind of wet we used to er make slide then and skate along on it and if the ground got dry we would get a old bucket or something and run round to the tap at the tank at the back of the school and get a a lot of water wet till you could slip on it . |
| 6 | This tendency has no counterpart in Levi , and it may be doubtful whether it could live with the subject-matter of the camps . |
| 7 | So even although the dogs ' questing noses sniffed at the scent trail on the wall as high as they could reach on their hind legs , there was no dangling rope to draw their attention upwards to the figures on the roof . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , ’ Athelstan added , ‘ is it possible that I could speak to one of the laundresses ? ’ |
| 9 | It is such that nothing could get in the way of its operation save changes logically inconsistent with it or with its effect or with a causal sequence of which it and its effect are parts . |
| 10 | Secondly , it must be said that , from the very start , Christians strained ordinary human language in order to speak of the significance of Christ ; the term Christ was an inclusive term , such that one could speak of persons as being ‘ in Christ ’ . |
| 11 | It was sufficiently central that I could get to my university department or the College in my electric wheelchair . |
| 12 | It seemed impossible that anyone could survive in the middle of that storm of blades . |
| 13 | Sometimes he irritates me so much that I could scream at him . |
| 14 | Yet Tate , herself a Jamaican , found that her second-generation informants used Jamaican Creole as their in-group language , and sounded so authentic that they could pass for Jamaicans in Jamaica , in her judgement ( personal communication ) . |
| 15 | Harry was convinced that he could account for every train he had accepted . |
| 16 | He 'd obviously spent time here , perhaps as much as he could spare before their marriage . |
| 17 | He wanted , from his own point of view , as much as he could get of the best of both worlds . |
| 18 | As I rummaged through the chest , gathering up as much as I could carry without dropping any , I found knitted scarves , blankets , gloves , socks and all sorts of garments of varying sizes . |
| 19 | The food filled a hole and that was as much as anyone could say for it , or maybe anything would have tasted like sawdust right then . |
| 20 | The seedlings , upright as bishops , are as free-fruiting and close-branched as you could wish for . |
| 21 | ‘ a police officer should be grateful if he could point to a clear cut instruction that he was only to stop a meeting if some incident at the meeting itself , whether caused by the speaker and his supporters or by the opposition present at the meeting place , led him to suppose that disorder was inevitable and could not be averted by any other means . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Sir John , ’ Mandeville called , ‘ I should be grateful if you could stay in the hall . |
| 23 | I am anxious that you should start work on this project as soon as possible , so that there are no last-minute delays , I should therefore be grateful if you could start on the first batch of frames , of which I give details below : |
| 24 | I would be grateful if you could arrange for clause two to be completed and initialled and the documents signed and returned to us for signature on behalf of the Press . |
| 25 | As this Department is responsible for the fees for the course , which I believe will total £170.00 , I would be grateful if you could arrange for this amount to be invoiced to the above address , for the attention of Miss Heather White . |
| 26 | As this Department is responsible for the cost of accommodation , which I believe will total £ , I would be grateful if you could arrange for the amount due to be invoiced to the above address for the attention of Miss H White . |
| 27 | I would be grateful if you could arrange for one copy of all your departmental letterheads , leaflets , forms and publications which use the logo Lothian Regional Council , the crest or any departmental logos , to be sent to Pamela Bruce , Corporate Services Department , Room 3.13 , Regional Headquarters , George IV Bridge , Edinburgh . |
| 28 | I 'd be very grateful if you could arrange for this work to be carried out . |
| 29 | I feel certain you will be interested in come of these reports and to aid distribution , and to prevent our troubling you with unwanted copies , I would be grateful if you could arrange for the enclosed card to be completed and returned to us . |
| 30 | I would be grateful if you could look into the matter and send me the duplicate Agreement as soon as possible , as I have your copy of the tape ( VM on IBM at 1600 bpi ) ready to despatch to you on return of the documents . |