Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] could [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a sharply critical personal statement in the House of Commons on Nov. 13 he said that the so-called Madrid conditions for UK entry into the ERM , agreed by the European Council in June 1989 [ see pp. 36740-41 ] , had come into existence only after he and the then Chancellor of the Exchequer , Nigel Lawson , had made it clear that they could not continue in office unless a specific commitment to join the ERM was made , and he accused the Prime Minister of increasingly risking leading herself and others astray in matters of substance as well as of style . |
| 2 | It was four years ago , and that was when it was clear that they could n't hold out against comprehensivization any longer . |
| 3 | She compromised with China in agreeing to the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997 and with the Zimbabwean nationalists over the Rhodesian negotiations , when it became clear that she could not get her way . |
| 4 | I thought we 'd been getting on pretty well but as Father 's Day approached , Joe made it clear that I could n't hope to be any more than just second best |
| 5 | I exhibited at the exhibition for several years but abandoned this when it became clear that I could not compete with the accuracy of the machine-made product . |
| 6 | The head of the Bonn Chancellery , Rudolf Seiters , said the West German government had made it clear that it could not make any concessions regarding its embassies in other countries and that no East German would be turned away from any West German mission abroad . |
| 7 | Although the Committee 's terms of reference excluded manual records , its Report makes clear that it could not justify on grounds of logic or justice the exclusion of manual records from any data protection legislation based upon general data protection principles . |
| 8 | Yet by 1956 it was clear that it could not live safely either with the West Bank re-incorporated into Jordan or with a Palestinian state in the West Bank . |
| 9 | Members are so heterogeneous that they could not communicate . |
| 10 | ‘ I was orphaned so I could n't carry on studying . |
| 11 | But when she came up to me after that third seminar I was so shocked and embarrassed that I could barely speak . |
| 12 | Creggan was more afraid than he could ever remember , and did not know where to go and what to do . |
| 13 | There was a box of matches in his top pocket , but when he got them out his hands were so wet that he could not make them strike . |
| 14 | Indeed if one gives a little thought to the matter it becomes distinctly doubtful that one could ever establish anything even vaguely resembling a sheet of charge . |
| 15 | I am afraid that I could not find anything objectionable in his speech or in the regulations . |
| 16 | I am afraid that I could not catch the last part of my hon. Friend 's question , but I agree with him about the importance that he attaches to the single market . |
| 17 | Their apparatus was primitive and they could not control the reaction , so it was another two years before a different team took up the work again . |
| 18 | Only the girl came back , and she was soaked and muddy and she could hardly speak . |
| 19 | My middle daughter was like that , tall and slim and you could hardly tell . |
| 20 | Fenella was standing on tiptoe alongside him , but the window was too high and she could not see . |
| 21 | I may not always be able to offer a Danby or a Holmes ( Holmes is available as I write ) , but I should be considerably embarrassed if I could n't find a good view of the Gorge for a departing new graduate or a returning old one . |
| 22 | We could meet up with them in public and I could n't guarantee not to strangle him on sight . |
| 23 | Whilst realising some of the questions do not apply to you as a potential member , it would be interesting if you could please complete , insofar as practical , the enclosed questionnaire and return it to me at |
| 24 | His face went rigid and she could n't bear to see his misery any longer . |
| 25 | Later I learned that he had injured his ankle running up and down stairs in the building in order to keep fit ; the leg was very painful and he could not walk . |
| 26 | I knew it was wrong but I could n't stop doing it . |
| 27 | There was something wrong , very wrong but he could not grasp it . |
| 28 | Sir , to do summat to do like she was paralysed but she could still feel the pain ? |
| 29 | Father had , apparently , told her she was ‘ too stupid ’ to take a degree in maths , told her she could n't do a joint degree in physics and German because he could n't afford to pay for the year out , and had influenced her to apply for A university because that was where he had taken his degree . |
| 30 | I felt an almost unbearably painful sense of beauty and order — painful because I could not imagine it would prevail . |