Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [pers pn] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had never imagined wearing clothes like this , or that they could make such a difference . |
| 2 | The party in the Commons would probably have done so , though not without a severing of all connections by a determined minority ; there is little doubt though that the party outside parliament would not have accepted fusion , or that they could have prevented its implementation . |
| 3 | I know Maria did not tell me that the food was often burnt and uneatable , or that they could not sleep because the beds were too cold . |
| 4 | This did not , however , mean that nationality matters were free of problems , or that they could be isolated from real life with its diversity and difficulties . |
| 5 | And the longer they dealt with it , the more aggravated our members could become on a shop floor , or that they could have additional disputes you know , on their hands , because of the fact that the dispute or the , the problem had lasted so long . |
| 6 | ‘ The principle that a defendant must take the plaintiff as he finds him involves that if a wrongdoer ought reasonably to foresee that as a result of his wrongful act the victim might require medical treatment he is , subject to the principle of novus actus interveniens , liable for the consequences of the treatment applied although he could not reasonably foresee those consequences or that they could be serious . ’ |
| 7 | That is true , but it does not issue in the conclusion that we do not ordinarily have and use the given conception of a causal circumstance , or that we could not use it in the confirmation of causal hypotheses . |
| 8 | She had never learned to read , either , and on the very rare occasions she received a letter Christine was called in to read it to her , Miss Miggs being careful to explain that her eyes were n't as good as they used to be or that she could n't find her glasses . |
| 9 | Without this kind of analytical framework , respecting the complex levels of mediation involved and their relative autonomy , Elvis becomes simply the plaything of naked political forces ( rebellious/manipulative ) ; and the fact that the young rock 'n' roller sang ballads from the start , that the older Hollywood star could still sing rock 'n' roll songs and was still respected by rock 'n' roll fans , that his ‘ blues ’ were ‘ romantic ’ ( a kind of fantasy ) , his ballads often ‘ realistic ’ ( given flesh ) , or that he could make boogification ironic — all this is inexplicable . |
| 10 | In my view the idea of his being monkish , or that he could have for a moment dreamt of entering a monastery , is not to be entertained , despite the claim of the Reverend William Levy in his Memoir . |
| 11 | Nobody dared to claim that Dukakis represented anything in particular or that he could reliably arouse anything more than a snore , but that was not the point . |
| 12 | Well I have no evidence from either of them , you know , er that er they are slamming the door on my initiative , other than the statement that was issued which if you read it , there 's very little in it that you can object to , or that I could object to , which commits them , the two governments to an initiative , and indeed that 's what er the last statement that Mr Adams and I issued asked them to do , the only er they also in in their statements say that my actions have been both courageous and imaginative |
| 13 | Various ideas were put forward , including the suggestion that the council should keep it on themselves or that it could be re-enacted by actors or schoolchildren . |
| 14 | One was that people were not really making much progress toward showing that supergravity was finite or that it could explain the kinds of particles that we observe . |
| 15 | The Bishop quotes , with approval , G. Bennett on spider webs : It is impossible for one who has watched the work for many hours to have any doubt that neither the present spiders of this species nor their ancestors were ever the architects of the web or that it could conceivably have been produced step by step through random variation ; it would be as absurd to suppose that the intricate and exact proportions of the Parthenon were produced by piling together bits of marble . |
| 16 | He did n't think it could happen to me or that it could be a blot on our landscape . |
| 17 | They could have easily made that to us the local planners who have to determine what kind of jobs go where and we could have discussed it with them . |
| 18 | Typically , project acquisitions could not be distinguished on the shelves or if they could , most of the people we asked could not show us which they were . |
| 19 | So I told them what I would do , but once again I 've never been in the situation but this is what I 'll do , said as if they were me own parents make them as comfortable as I could while I 'll cleaned up and give them a bed bath or if they could shower , shower them and erm and get everything back to normal as quick as possible , fine , that were all fine she , and then as , as I got up from it they all said thanks a lot Joy it has been great you really have been great you 've made it easy , we 've got an easy day in front thanks to you , you know you 're bubbly and all this and then when she phoned me on the Sunday she said hello Joy it 's Sue here and I , I said will you let me know one way or the another cos I said I hate being left up in the air |
| 20 | Indeed , it is doubtful that an inanimate entity can meaningfully be said to have interests , or if it could , what they would be . |
| 21 | their , their supply routes are n't as well defined as ours , but they 've got shear weight of numbers , see , I 'm af , I 'm afraid , I could be a fucking karate black belt or something right , so one on one against you I would n't have a problem , but if you went and got fucking thirty of your mates I would have a problem , I maybe able to hold you off for a fucking few minutes or something or if you could either contact , maybe a few months or years or something , but they will win |
| 22 | Never having seen Jack suture , she wondered if she ought to call the fascio-maxillary surgeon over from the Norfolk and Norwich , or if she could , indeed , trust Jack to do a decent job . |
| 23 | But men have had such experiences and done nothing further about them , either because they have decided that there was less to the experience than they at first supposed , or because they could not endure the ethical and spiritual demands which were implied in the unspoken , ineffable moment of divine knowledge . |
| 24 | When Dot began to cry she was n't sure if it was because of thinking about poor Mr Brown 's two missing fingers or because she could n't remember what her father 's face looked like , or merely because of the alarming new orders about train departures cackling from the loudspeakers . |
| 25 | The Policyholder may claim a constructive total loss when the subject matter of insurance is reasonably abandoned to the Insurer on the account of its actual total loss appearing to be unavoidable or because it could not be preserved from such actual total loss without an expenditure that would exceed its value when recovered/repaired . |
| 26 | They would not expect the taking of Perth and Scone to be easy , and night would fall long before they could send back to clear out Abernethy and Forteviot , or before they could press on the further twelve miles to Dunkeld . |
| 27 | Oxygen , too , began to increase faster than new ‘ sinks ’ could neutralize it , or before it could be buried in sediments . |
| 28 | Erm , so , the , given any organisation should always be looking at what it 's been , it 's doing to see whether , what it 's doing , erm , it should continue to do , you know , whether the , whether the services is a defunct or whatever , or whether we could provide it in a , erm in the most up to date way , the most progressive way . |
| 29 | Whether or not the likes of Richard Neville were accurately described in this manner by Mrs Whitehouse and other members of what Neville and his associates perceived to be the ‘ establishment ’ , or whether they could genuinely be described in Cohen 's ( 1988 ) terms as ‘ folk devils ’ , ‘ persons emerging to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests ’ , it is clear that , for Mrs Whitehouse , they represented a grave threat to all that she held dear . |
| 30 | We first question we would like to answer is whether any of the B II junctions created above are actually present in the solution structure of CATGACGTCATG or whether they could play a significant role in an equilibrium of different solution conformations . |