Example sentences of "that [art] [noun sg] could [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Links were made and any experiences that black groups have had with the CAB were identified ; the work of the CAB was described and help was enlisted from the black community in order to improve the services that the CAB could offer them .
2 ‘ Could n't we write out a message on the ground , Brown Owl , so that the pilot could see it — with stones or something ? ’
3 Alexander angrily complied , furious that the King could put him to so much trouble on a wild , bitterly cold night .
4 Workers valued the education that the intelligenty could give them .
5 Some versions substituted for the front pair a .5 Browning heavy machine gun , and some jeeps had a single Vickers fitted in such a way that the driver could operate it .
6 Built in the days when the knocker-up came to each house to wake the workers , miners could chalk the times of their shifts on the slates so that the knocker-up could let them sleep if they were not due for work when he came by .
7 T S Eliot once accused Henry James of possessing a mind so fine that no idea could violate it .
8 If only he knew that no man could give her what he had — thirteen frantic days of excitement and sensuality that would be with her for the rest of her life .
9 Mrs. Simper then found out that my sauciness was grown to such a height that no body could endure it , and told my lady , that there never had been a room well swept , since Betty Broom came into the house
10 She could walk safely in the forest of city streets and that no harm could touch her .
11 It took a while before anyone issued a Shabba album , perhaps because he was so popular in reggae 's ‘ get a money ’ freelance business that no producer could pin him down long enough to cut enough sides .
12 This is because the system is so complicated that no historian could use it without explicit support from the AI project group .
13 He was ill — except that how many diseases came on so quickly that a man could send you flowers in the morning and by dinner be incapable of lifting the telephone ?
14 These ‘ tenants-at-will ’ had no written agreements , but that did not mean that a landlord could eject them whenever he liked .
15 Bear in mind that a block could indicate you are resisting a radical change of direction .
16 But perhaps your first mistake was to think that a shop could give you totally impartial advice — their prime concern was probably to make sure you actually made a purchase and from them rather than elsewhere .
17 I am sure that an engineer could tell you of other differences between the punchcard and electronic machines too .
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