Example sentences of "[be] [that] [pers pn] could [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She finished by saying , ‘ And his only sorrow , for some months , has been that he could not find you , his former friend . ’ |
| 2 | I do n't know but he could of been ill , he could , it could of been that he could n't take any more you know that but Margaret was terri terribly bitter about him Margaret not coming , but he could , he could n't stand it |
| 3 | While the Germans presented their situation as a disaster , they overlooked the fact that one of Danzig s major and continual problems had been that it could not grow or thrive purely on the traffic of its immediate Prussian hinterland . |
| 4 | I think it may be it may be that they could perhaps get more money if the local parties affiliated separately but |
| 5 | It may be that we could not have had the best of Connors without the worst of him . ’ |
| 6 | When she had tired of her games she would take wing and fly away , and even if she stayed , how likely would it be that she could ever settle down as that poor doctor 's wife ? |
| 7 | " Officers had instructions from their employers that no English need apply and that the best chance a man could have to get employment would be that he could not speak the English language ; then he was sure to get a situation " . |
| 8 | But when I did so , the words I uttered for the record were that I could not accept that the proper constitutional practices , as I understood them , were being observed . |
| 9 | I mean it was what , what and if you go through all the papers you can see that , that Robert Maxwell really saw that self regulation erm legislation being that he could finally get control through an investment management company of his pension funds . |
| 10 | The thing is that I could n't cancel the draft — it cost £6.50 to get it , and would have cost another £12.00 to get it annulled . |
| 11 | ‘ The truth is that I could n't believe it . |
| 12 | Another thing about being a qualified accountant is that I could always leave and do books at home . |
| 13 | would would also be wise for any new settlement which you chief specify , that any new settlement you may recommend should also include some provision for expansion land , and my point I think is that you could not divide a settlement as big as five thousand , I think it would be reasonable to say a new settlement make with a an eventual capacity of say three and a half thousand , that might be appropriate around Greater York . |
| 14 | The central problem is that you could never measure the original position of the page with sufficient accuracy . |
| 15 | In Principia Ethica ( p. 41 ) Moore implies that what makes good a non-natural quality is that it could not exist by itself in time , as other properties could . |
| 16 | However , I think that his main reason for rejecting the possibility is that he could not imagine a process whereby it could happen . |
| 17 | The opinion is that he could not have done more , just as the South African golfers , as stressed by Bland , have done everything to eliminate apartheid from their tournament scene in order that the South African Professional Golfers ' Association is respected for placing merit before colour or creed . |
| 18 | What is , to my mind , incredible , is that he could ever have supposed that the money was being either paid by the plaintiffs or received by the defendants with the intention or on the footing that the defendants were to keep it in any event . |
| 19 | The problem with Orwell is that he could only think of class conflict in terms of major insurrectionary conflict . |
| 20 | In the midst of this pain and uncertainty , the wonder is that he could still produce work . |
| 21 | The reason was that they could not resolve ambiguity between competing lexical interpretations on a word-by-word basis , and so had to maintain possible interpretations in a representation that was separate from the lexicon . |
| 22 | The problem of the poorest was that they could not afford such rents as would bring an adequate return for builders and property-owners , unless they were crammed at very high density in properly which received minimal repair . |
| 23 | Perhaps what he really meant was that they could n't afford not to go to Nunes . |
| 24 | Certainly not , and I think that that 's one of the things that causes people to be to switch off when you mention computers and think ‘ oh , I ca n't understand that ’ because their experience at school perhaps was that they could n't understand mathematics anyway . |
| 25 | Several other students were concerned about their inability to understand what was being taught in the lectures ; a commonly expressed view was that they could n't take notes and follow what was being said at the same time . |
| 26 | One reason was for communications , but another reason that was rather intriguing to scientists was that they could actually look at stars and look at the space between the stars and use a different region of the spectrum , in particular the radio region . |
| 27 | Abbey National considered using IV , but decided to move to compact discs : ‘ The problem was that we could n't find an IV system that did everything we wanted , ’ explains Julian Wakeley , manager for distance learning at Abbey National , ‘ also , we did n't need full motion video . ’ |
| 28 | One of the most important corollaries of the hypothesis of the turbidity current was that we could now have the geosynclinal trough without the geosynclinal sediments . |
| 29 | And the worst part was that she could n't talk to Elinor about it . |
| 30 | But she was n't sure what it was that she could n't do . |