Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] that could [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter had grown afraid of emotion ; he considered it messy stuff that could lead one into a fatal labyrinth of self-forgetfulness . |
| 2 | Estall has made a serious mistake that could prove his undoing . |
| 3 | It also means that the feral dogs are acquiring genetic material that could turn them into dangerous carnivores in grand style . |
| 4 | A deadly charm that could humiliate her because it could easily make her melt and beg and forget a lifetime of rigid adherence to propriety . |
| 5 | ONE OF Britain 's most successful offshore construction yards is in with a good chance of winning a major order that could secure its future for a year . |
| 6 | It could n't have been hit by a missile because we know there are no missile-carrying planes around — even if there were , a heat-seeking missile , the only type that could nail it at that altitude , would have gone for the engines , not the nose cone . |
| 7 | The only thing that could get one down — as it eventually did his American television followers — was his high-pitched , breathless , Scots delivery . |
| 8 | A soak in a hot tub , brimming with scented foam , was about the only thing that could soothe her wounded spirits . |
| 9 | Virgin were the only company that could pull him out of the hole , and it was to Virgin that McLaren now turned , cap in hand . |
| 10 | He was aware of the risks involved and that he was embarking on a kind of unnecessary surgery that could threaten his life , but it was what he wanted . |
| 11 | She had dark curly hair with no sign of grey , and a certain shyness that could make her manner seem brusque . |
| 12 | They merely assumed that inhibition generates the incest taboo without pointing to any behavioural mechanism that could translate one into the other . |
| 13 | Mr Rockman , a lieutenant in the segregated Coloured suburb of Mitchell 's Plain , announced the formation of the union days before a disciplinary hearing that could end his career . |
| 14 | Every half-minute or so , he peered over at the Loran navigation indicator — as if looking at it would make the numbers showing their position change more rapidly — then glanced up at the sky as if there was something to be divined in the matted darkness that could warn him of approaching doom . |
| 15 | And in their spirit lay the dormant power that could make them proud , free men again ! |