Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] could [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beset by relative impotence in the international arena only rarely could abolitionists provide sustenance from ‘ agitation ’ for antislavery diplomacy or politics as when the 1814 petitions were seen as support for Castlereagh 's negotiations on suppressing the transatlantic slave trade at the peace congress . |
| 2 | Only then could tributes be written and statues erected . |
| 3 | So why could Dr Neil , with a few words and a sidelong look , lance her indignation so easily , compel her to reassess herself and life ? |
| 4 | If children outside of public care could be brought up , for example , in single-parent families , then so too could children on the inside . |
| 5 | And it has even been argued that the pragmatists simply ‘ extended Spencer to argue that , since all human activity could be interpreted as the outcome of the instinct for survival , so therefore could thinking be ’ . |
| 6 | Not only could Ukraine 's failure to accede to the NPT encourage other nascent nuclear powers , but Russian leaders have said that , until the Ukrainian parliament ratifies START 1 , they will not ratify the January 1993 START 2 treaty , which provides for a further large reduction in the American and Russian nuclear arsenals . |
| 7 | Once they were in place , not only could peasants buy ( rather than just occupy ) their dwelling-places , but also in certain circumstances they could " acquire in full ownership " the land which the charters assigned them . |
| 8 | His speech was delivered by means of fingerspelling ( the mode adopted by all speakers who were each limited to ten minutes ) : Before I went to America I was rather one-sided , and opposed the teaching of speech too much ; but after entering the celebrated college at Washington , I saw that not only could speech be taught with much success , but that those educated on the combined system spoke better than those educated on the so-called pure oral method . |
| 9 | But to be effective these random changes in government expenditure or the money supply , or whatever , would have to be unpredictable ; and that means unpredictable to the government too , for if the government could predict them , then so could others . |
| 10 | And for how long could France be kept isolated ? |
| 11 | There was a simple ordinariness about those brief appearances , during which Marcus enquired about Patrick 's health ; but how long could ordinariness continue and what would happen next ? |
| 12 | How soon could Kirov get his bird off the ground , do you think ? ’ |
| 13 | How clearly could Obispal see ? |
| 14 | Em , er , quite how could Gordy look like anyone UNLESS they were ginger haired and short ? ? |
| 15 | How then could philosophy in general be said to have a male bias ? |
| 16 | How else could Chuck have outdone Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot ? |
| 17 | How else could Pybus afford to dine out at Pahdra 's take-away and gain exclusive use of his portable telephone on Saturday afternoons to call the Multivite Vegeburger/Singletons Valve hotline ? |
| 18 | The racial and cultural diversity of Amnesty delegations to countries began to expand : no longer could Amnesty representatives be caricatured in pin-striped suits . |
| 19 | Part of this somewhat free accounting was undoubtedly due to much better control : no longer could staff pass off a ‘ do-it-yourself sandwich and pocket the proceeds ; but much of the increase was real and deserved . |
| 20 | No longer could French and Fordham take a back seat advisory role . |
| 21 | Otherwise how could speaker Lentor tell the King that the speaker on that 's on that occasion could only be instructed by parliament . |
| 22 | Their passion precluded tenderness , their lovemaking nearly fighting , and Maria could almost believe that that was really what it was , else how could Luke continue to deny her and himself like this ? |