Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [pron] could [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those built by governments seem most commonly to have been placed where they could combine the functions of protecting the local population and housing the official who governed the area . |
| 2 | Being able to tile or overlap windows within applications is a nice convenience but have you ever wished that you could do the same thing with separate applications on the desktop ? |
| 3 | When the appointed hour approached and we could see the visitors massing outside the glass doors at the end of the ward , waiting for opening-time , I would bury myself in a book to hide my pink eyes ; but they would none the less be drawn irresistibly to watch the passage of each visitor along the aisle while I thought babyishly , " Somebody might think to come . " |
| 4 | It was arranged that they could hold the ceremony in front of the band stand following which they danced their favourite dance together . |
| 5 | It was said that he could estimate the structure of the whole creature from just a single bone . |
| 6 | Crawled until I could see the arrow only because it was pale against the bark , and knew I was already further away than when I 'd taken the last bearing . |
| 7 | Nothing was said but he could sense the optimism all round the company . |
| 8 | Had the Government not thought that they could get the Bill passed without the House having a serious attempt to debate or qualify it , those matters could have been discussed with experts . |
| 9 | I would have thought that we could request the fenc the fencing and tell them our plans for the fencing and not lose anything by asking for them |
| 10 | Just a short while ago she had thought that nothing could increase the feeling of dread that Andrew had left behind him in the drawing-room . |
| 11 | The curtains were drawn so they could see the video that Drew was playing of their semi-final against the Quorn . |
| 12 | Some writers have speculated that we could see the development of new patterns of support such as an increase of private loans within families , or substantial bequests to grandchildren rather than children , since the younger generation are the ones who will find the most difficulty in getting onto the first rung of the housing ladder ( Murie and Forrest , 1980 ; Means , 1987 ) . |
| 13 | These included offering customers with a repayment mortgage the option of extending the term up to 35 years , while endowment customers were told that they could spread the excess ( the difference between the amount borrowed and their present balance ) over a longer period . |
| 14 | His face was drawn and I could feel the tension in his hands holding my wrists . |
| 15 | Usually , you went there , a couple of doors were closed and you could smell the smoke , guys sneaking breaks . |
| 16 | Gynaecologist Mr Ian Mackenzie of the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford , has noted that it could save the NHS between £10 and £15 million a year , which could be used to shorten waiting-lists for other forms of gynaecological care . |
| 17 | Well that was kept by fella called and they could get the beer off-licence , although it was n't , it was n't so far to the Old Naked Inn and then there was a pub on the corner of , I ca n't remember the name of that because they 've opened it too young to remember pubs in them days but er , apart from the off-licence there was no actual public inn on Street , there was off-licence , as I say just a few yards down was the Old Naked Inn and there was a pub on the top of just on the side of . |
| 18 | After a time the engines slowed and we could hear the wheel turning . |
| 19 | The Grade V test was , therefore , taken by a number of students who had no particular interest in the theory of music , but who could be pushed through the test provided that they could learn the requirements and carry them out without too much in the way of understanding . |
| 20 | Adam Swannson , the senior partner of the haulage firm , confirmed these deliveries would be made on time , provided that he could subcontract the Belfast delivery . |
| 21 | And then , early one morning , when the affair was still unsettled and he could see the Indian girl asleep on a sofa with one arm through the strap of her handbag and the sari drawn over it , a delayed flight from Jamaica arrived with twelve unaccompanied West Indian children on board . |
| 22 | If he 'd thought about it at all , he 'd imagined that they could find the Shuttle plane and wedge the Thing on it somewhere . |
| 23 | As late medieval Catholics also believed that they could elicit the help of the Virgin Mary and the saints in heaven not only for themselves but also for those in purgatory , intercessory prayers , masses for the dead , and the worship of relics of the saints were all extremely important features of lay piety . |
| 24 | He was asked if he could reassure the expected 135,000 British tourists to his country of their safety — Britain is the most important country to South Africa 's lucrative holiday trade . |
| 25 | The whole job had to be finished so they could catch the same ferry back . |
| 26 | This is quite unreasonable and should be resisted as it could affect the marketability of the lease in the last five years of the term , which the tenant may find unacceptable despite the fact that its inclusion could result in a small reduction in rent on review . |
| 27 | Repeatedly the feeling was expressed that nobody could change the quality of their working lives except possibly higher management . |
| 28 | Sabine Jourdain had been killed because of what she was prepared to say , Barbara Coleman had been kept out of the way because of what she knew and Rain was to be killed before she could publish the story . |
| 29 | Two , the could proceed without the landlord 's licence , it would then be up to the landlord to apply to the court to have the lease forfeited when you could arrange the defence that you were a reasonable tenant and as such the assignment should have been allowed to permit this course of action but of course you are using bank money as well as your own and the bank would be unhappy to lend money in a situation where there was a possibility , albeit a slight , that the lease would be forfeited . |
| 30 | I have suggested that we could leave the story open-ended , but he clearly thinks I do n't understand the nature of movies very well . |