Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] could [vb infin] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Install a hard disk card — the advantage of this is the apparent ease of installation , also it is completely additional and leaves the two existing floppy drives , again the disadvantages are cost and potential damage which I could cause installing it . |
| 2 | Take a walk around the streets one day and have a look at all the innocent objects lying about which you could use to defend yourself in a desperate situation . |
| 3 | A word is not a category at all in the sense used : since a text may be decomposed entirely into a sequence of words , there is no linguistic sense in which one could choose to use something else instead of a word . |
| 4 | At one time it was only an affluent few who owned their own houses or capital assets which they could invest to increase their incomes . |
| 5 | Conversation with Alexei had been limited for the past day to standard matters of duty , and since he had not been able to think of anything which he could say to change his son 's attitude , he had allowed himself to accept that the state of affairs which existed between them was likely to be permanent . |
| 6 | There were endless ways in which he could have made my activities seem a nuisance , positively damaging to our marriage , or — which would have been worst of all — merely trivial . |
| 7 | Oxford , the scholarship , would then have been the defining influence , become the place in which he could have planted his flag and redrawn himself . |
| 8 | Each science in its infancy has had to establish the assumptions and procedures by which it could claim to extend our knowledge of nature . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know , ’ I said , wondering what I could do to stop him . |
| 10 | She asked me to think about what I could do to protect myself . |
| 11 | so the second level of using theory was to actually begin to find out what I could do to help myself and that threw me into the middle of ‘ what is knowledge ? ’ |
| 12 | I think at the point where I was struggling to understand what I could do to help myself , I certainly was n't aware of anything called patient-centred medicine at that point , or group-activity in relation to health . |
| 13 | She had done what nobody could have expected her to do . |
| 14 | Fabia was shaken , but was more intent then on finding out what she could do to help whatever the trouble was , than concerned that it looked as though she could say goodbye to her much looked forward to Czechoslovakian holiday . |
| 15 | ‘ I had an uncle who was dying of emphysema , ’ said Betty , ‘ and he used to implore people not to make him laugh because it took his breath away , and I could never understand what he could find to amuse him . ’ |