Example sentences of "[noun prp] could [adv] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ari could hardly muster any enthusiasm . |
| 2 | Husayn could only contemplate this option with equanimity if most of the Palestine refugees moved out of his territory — presumably back to Palestine , an issue considered in the next chapter . |
| 3 | ‘ We received work via the Australian Embassy that Mandela could n't attend either test but wished to meet the Wallabies ’ , said French . |
| 4 | 1124 found the French princes unusually united ; assemblies to discuss wars against Normandy could never command such support . |
| 5 | Most newly-appointed Prime Ministers are embarrassed by a plethora of well-qualified supplicants ; MacDonald could scarcely find enough party stalwarts with the ability or experience to fill even the major posts . |
| 6 | Jezrael could hardly believe such extravagance . |
| 7 | Robert could not answer this question . |
| 8 | Ballater could n't see any connection . |
| 9 | Europeans had heard travellers ' tales of how natives of different parts of China could not understand each other 's speech , but could communicate by writing . |
| 10 | Until he controlled all the money , Adam could n't risk either sister querying his moves : he needed to placate and control both of them . |
| 11 | Defries could n't see any alternative , but she felt obliged to point out the difficulties . |
| 12 | The thrusting diversity of American capitalist railway operations , which had been its great strength in the nineteenth century , had become its greatest weakness in the twentieth , and not even Amtrak could entirely arrest that decline . |
| 13 | Thereafter Ladislav could not keep any post for long before the authorities hounded him out of it . |
| 14 | No matter how paranoid he felt from time to time about the DIA , Coleman could not conceive that Control would have told him to get hold of a legitimate Thomas Leavy passport for Operation Shakespeare knowing in advance that it would blow the mission and lead to his arrest . |
| 15 | Orson Welles was too busy with his radio show , Bela Lugosi could never get any master plan together beyond his next insane experiment , Vincent Price would n't rank with the major bad guys until horror pictures caught on again , and Zachary Scott 's thin moustache betrayed his lack of substance as a mastermind . |
| 16 | Juliet could n't hear any sound from the ward . |
| 17 | For example , the Mikado in Japan could not lose any hair or nails for he was so holy , nor could he move unduly as this would mean there would be a flood , or invasion , or some other calamity in his empire . |
| 18 | Mexico , a non-member of the League of Nations , claimed that this omission meant that France could not raise this agreement before the Commission . |
| 19 | The land around them did n't seem a lot different to the place they 'd left , except that the vegetation was lower and Masklin could n't see any water . |
| 20 | Blake could n't see any form of power and assumed this was a machine-driven contraption . |
| 21 | Pavel could n't get any breakfast , because he still did n't have any English money . |
| 22 | But the SPD could now find little alternative to Kohl 's policy of welcoming the SED 's demise , allowing refugees in from the East and exploring possible routes to German reunification . |
| 23 | It is true that Paul could not preach that freedom without fairly being asked how the theology works out in practice , especially where the inequalities of society , at least on the surface of things , remain unchanged . |
| 24 | Not different at all , countered Weinberger : still fanatically anti-American and virulently anti-western ; America could not do any business with them . |
| 25 | As Hayling , Walsh , Lowe and the others must have known , Thornton could not accept either condition . |