Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [pron] could [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a human , the task of finding the summit would be easy because he could see north east ; but the robot can only test the gradient along the principal points of the compass , and in all those four directions it slopes down . |
| 2 | Since Jarvella instructed his subjects to recall as much as they could remember word for word , and he scored for accuracy of verbatim recall , these results suggest not only that the last-heard clause has the highest verbatim recall but also that the amount of syntactic information which is being retained about a preceding clause depends on whether or not that clause forms part of a larger linguistic unit which also includes the most recent clause . |
| 3 | As much as I could do south of the equator |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd be grateful if you could spare time for a fitting , and I did think it would be a good idea if I could hold a rehearsal of everyone concerned in my part of the show before the official one . |
| 5 | Rosemary has said she is willing to be one , and I 'd be grateful if you could suggest names for others . |
| 6 | I would be grateful if you could take action on this as soon as possible . |
| 7 | I would be grateful if you could take steps to find this out , and let me know . |
| 8 | Would n't life be simpler if we could read horses ' minds ? |
| 9 | I could choose not to do Alfie , but I would n't I 'd never refuse to do Alfie , I 'd like to be fifty years younger so I could play Alfie for another fifty years . |
| 10 | OTHERWISE WE WOULD BE GLAD IF YOU COULD MAKE ARRANGEMENTS TO OPEN SUCH AN ACCOUNT AND RETURN FORM CF351 TO US WHEN YOU HAVE DONE SO . |
| 11 | He sought to show by ingenious argument that it must be false because he could find thought experiments which circumvented it . |
| 12 | They both seemed to have forgotten Jenna and she was glad because she could feel tears welling up inside , almost a feeling of panic . |
| 13 | Although I could n't wait to leave school once and for all so I could join Granpa permanently , if I ever played truant for as much as an hour he would n't take me to watch West Ham on Saturday afternoon or , worse , he 'd stop me selling on the barrow in the morning . |
| 14 | In that moment she was n't sure if she could fling decorum to the wind and beg him to make love to her again , right there , standing up in the blackness of Ghar Hasan . |
| 15 | Angus Crichton-Miller , managing director of the Rank Organisation 's holidays and hotels division and a member of the study group said : ‘ It is not an efficient system to have such changes between busy and quiet periods and it would be better if we could flatten prices over a longer season , rather than have such high-peak-season prices . ’ |
| 16 | Erm I would , I think it would be very useful if you could make time in the next day or so , you do n't have to spend long on this you know , if you just spent sort of |
| 17 | ‘ Would n't it be grand if we could show Mr. Olinton that Brownies are helpful and not nuisances at all ? |
| 18 | The King could say whatever he chose in the speech as long as he could find ministers to support it , and George wanted to say ‘ this bloody and expensive war ’ . |
| 19 | We would go out to lunch or perhaps look around a stately home — life became extremely rich because we could control Ruth 's pain with morphine . |
| 20 | Hysteria had nothing to do with reality , it was something you could n't help , could n't hold back any more than you could stop flood water finding out the weak places in a dam . |
| 21 | ‘ He taught himself Latin and Greek so he could study botany , and he published a book , The British Flora , in 1777 . |
| 22 | ‘ Talking about steamrollers , ’ Otley said , ‘ it would be handy if we could get hold of one . ’ |
| 23 | Such leaks were important because they could allow radiation to escape . |
| 24 | On Friday w would it be a good idea Cos I do n't know what time the generator 's but I mean it would be really best if we could set things up . |
| 25 | What factors ( people , events and ideas ) long before an event occurred ( " preconditions " ) were necessary before it could take place ? |