Example sentences of "[conj] that [pron] 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 | You may have fears — about things you did early on before you knew that you were pregnant or that something could be wrong with the baby . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I wanted a really good box that I could work from , or that someone could work for me — which is what happens nine times out of ten — and then run direct into the amplifier without losing any gain , without gaining any hum and without losing any of the real naturalness of the Fender Strat and the Vox amp . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He did n't think it could happen to me or that it could be a blot on our landscape . |
| 19 | The task therefore was to recover greater autonomy at the centre and limit the state 's obligations to those that were essential and/or that it could carry out . |
| 20 | Typically , neither Frank nor Jack knew too much about the prostate gland , nor that it could be affected by disease , until it happened to them . |
| 21 | They would have no direct control over such institutions except that they could pay them for particular services . |
| 22 | An indirect consequence was damage due to the operation of independent causes having no connection with the negligent act , except that they could not avoid its results . |
| 23 | In Donegal South-West in 1987 Fianna Fail with 58.2% of the first-preference votes won two of the three seats and Fine Gael with 29.8% won the other : fair enough , except that there could be no representation for the Workers ' Party with 8.0% . |
| 24 | Once she was there it would require a tremendous effort of will to get her back to London — except that she could not leave Holly in charge for more than a day ; and except that she was avid for information about the murder inquiry ; and except that there were any number of good stories she wanted to pursue for the column and any amount of private gossip she wanted to hear . |
| 25 | Except that she could still see Julius in every drawing . |
| 26 | There 's not much else to tell you except that he could be arriving any time . |
| 27 | Nothing was said about his next move , except that he could hardly expect his sister to take him in now , and that he was unwilling , under any circumstances , to move to Purley . |
| 28 | Except that I could n't move . |
| 29 | Except that I could n't sit up straight . |
| 30 | More than that he could not do . |