Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [pers pn] could [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MR Vaclav Havel , the Czechoslovak opposition leader , held talks with senior Communist Party figures last night on the shape of a new cabinet amid growing signals that he could become the country 's next president . |
| 2 | In fact he had fully intended to wait for a suitable moonlit warm right , but the trying events of the day had put him so out of sorts that he could stand the waiting no longer . |
| 3 | As Khrushchev later admitted : ‘ It always sounded good to say in speeches that we could hit a fly at any distance with our missiles . |
| 4 | They were under no illusions that they could do a better job from Detroit , but they had become increasingly concerned that they were getting out of touch with what was happening around the world , and that the tail was beginning to wag the dog . |
| 5 | A new coalition of centrist , environmentalist and Maori parties , formed on Dec. 1 , showed early signs that it could challenge the traditional two-party structure of New Zealand politics . |
| 6 | It was inevitable that this strength , particularly when confronted by such weakness , generated the belief in both countries that they could transact a peace settlement which safeguarded their respective concerns . |
| 7 | If you had told any of Britain 's hard-pressed post-war chancellors that they could expand the economy vigorously and turn round the external accounts by 6.5 per cent of GDP without adverse consequences , would they not have jumped at the chance ? |
| 8 | Organisers of the Tenerife Open failed to make the requisite telephone call by 10am yesterday morning to tell tour officials that they could raise the money , so it has been replaced by the Atlantic Open at Estela , near Oporto , from February 15-18 . |
| 9 | There are now fears that it could threaten the endangered monk seal population . |
| 10 | AN ALSATIAN which ate three sheep was being hunted by police yesterday amid fears that it could attack a child . |
| 11 | While the changes may go some way to prolong the life of existing fields , there are fears that it could discourage the development of new ones . |
| 12 | Suggestions that he could avoid the damage by protecting the wheat fields with electric fencing do not impress Mr Berry . |
| 13 | It was n't until you actually turned the machine and and actually stared in to the slots that you could see the gauze . |
| 14 | They need to remember that even Jesus did not primarily draw attention to himself , but taught men that they could find the Father through the way he showed , the truth he revealed , and the life he lived . |
| 15 | It is on these grounds that we could discount the ‘ rare exceptions ’ referred to by Nossal ( 1975 : 46 , above ) , since the superfluous testing which he condemns has a far greater probability of continuing to be of little benefit to mankind , even in the advancement of knowledge , than the work of Gray , Gallistel , or the early objectives of Blakemore . |
| 16 | The Data Protection Registrar is quoted as warning local councils that they could break the law if they maintain a register of all adults for the council tax . |