Example sentences of "a [noun sg] that they could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because if you achieve a hundred percent of what 's in your plan , there 's always a danger that they could 've achieved a hundred and ten percent of what was in your plan and have n't been working hard . |
| 2 | In many cases the possibility of being used in painful research would be a prospect that they could grasp and would not relish . |
| 3 | Briefly she allowed herself to think that theirs was a normal , everyday sort of thing , with people to meet and places to go ; with a life that they could share . |
| 4 | They wanted quite simply " a return to the Apostolic Life " , a more simple Church and a Church that they could understand . |
| 5 | Dogs should not be exercised then , because there is a risk that they could succumb to heat stroke . |
| 6 | In an economic upturn that may change , of course , but I think they all get jobs of some sort , and I would have hoped that a chemistry degree , a good training in chemistry , would in fact also train people to think in such a way that they could apply it to a lot of other areas . |
| 7 | If on the other hand the signalling cells grew into such a shape that they could come into direct contact with their target organs the chemical signal could be discharged directly at site across the ‘ synaptic ’ gap between the cells . |
| 8 | You might say that if this is a problem it is a problem of their own making , a problem that they could avoid simply by changing their habits and hunting by day . |
| 9 | The only this group could admit were reforms that benefited its members : the sale of the common lands and the entailed estates of the Church , an operation that they could dominate and from which they could draw profit . |