Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [adv] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | The verderers had horses and within an hour or so could be carrying him back to some village outside the forest where he would have attention . |
| 2 | There was a kind of tension that perhaps could have been alleviated if they had a couple more people with them , ’ he says . |
| 3 | I sometimes tried to imagine blocking the Maggot during a game of American football and simply could not . |
| 4 | By a notice of appeal dated 1 March 1991 the defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the donee of the power of appointment , the defendant 's mother , Mrs. Mary Steed , did not know that she had been appointed attorney by the defendant and accordingly could not have known that she had any power to deal with his property when she executed the transfer of 4 September 1979 , and that in those circumstances the plea of non est factum ought to have succeeded on the judge 's finding that the donee was tricked into signing the transfer ; ( 2 ) the judge having rightly concluded that the transaction as affected was not a sale , save possibly at such a gross undervalue as to vitiate it as a sale , should therefore have held that the transfer was void and ineffective ; ( 3 ) the judge having rightly concluded that he retained a discretion to rectify the charges register against the registered holder , notwithstanding , as he found , that ( i ) the title of the mortgagors , Mr. and Mrs. Hammond , was merely voidable and not void , and ( ii ) that the registered holders of the charge were bona fide mortgagees for value without notice of the facts giving rise to voidability , then wrongly exercised his discretion to refuse to rectify since the considerations in favour of rectification could hardly have been stronger and his refusal to exercise his discretion was tantamount to denying the effective existence of such discretion , as if it was not exercised on the facts of this case it could never , or virtually never , be exercised at all ; and that , in the premises , the judge had erred in law in placing excessive reliance upon ( i ) and ( ii ) above to the exclusion of the other considerations which favoured rectification . |
| 5 | Be managed to elude our bird because he was running inside a wire retaining fence and so could n't be grabbed by the deadly talons . |
| 6 | The major tool of management was always employment , for it was only through interest that anything worthwhile could be obtained , for even appointments in mercantile houses at home or abroad could often only be obtained through interest , while all appointments in government service were patronage appointments , in fact if not always in theory . |
| 7 | But again , it 's the cheapest plan , and it 's a plan that today could be better than having none at all . |
| 8 | ‘ He told me he 'd got in touch again the moment he 'd heard that you 'd decided to soft pedal a bit on work and so could be open to having a boyfriend . ’ |
| 9 | She had a very involved son and daughter-in-law but both went out to work and therefore could not manage continual care ( although she had respite hospital care two weeks in six ) . |
| 10 | In Greaves [ 1987 ] The Times , 11 July , it was held that it was a question for the jury whether a gap of 17 days between burglary and handling meant that the accused was not the burglar and so could be convicted of handling . |
| 11 | One of the reasons Mr Houghton and his managers cite for staying in the pots-and-pans business sounds pretty lame : namely that the business was handicapped in the 1980s first by a recession at the start of the decade and then later by a strong dollar and so could now recover . |
| 12 | We 've just heard that in Berkshire , the M four , junction six to seven , that 's Slough on the A four , if you 're heading that way this evening , traffic 's slow there going westbound and obviously could cause you a few delays . |
| 13 | And since whatever happened he would have to take the London train , could he really expose her — a woman who had one child and so could surely have another — to the risk of her own fertility ? |
| 14 | However , when the message did not allow unambiguous identification but instead could have referred to one of two items in the array , the number of shifts almost doubled in number . |
| 15 | Also , each manager only had shift responsibility and so could not co-ordinate the work across shifts . |
| 16 | The drug also finds it way to the mother 's milk and so could exert its effects on newborn children . |
| 17 | Firstly , most of the competing hypotheses scored sufficiently less than the correct hypothesis and so could be eliminated by forwards pruning from the search on acoustic grounds ( see Fig. 9.2 , point B ) , thus preventing the growth of an increasingly large band of hypotheses . |
| 18 | The full committee refused to redirect the funds and , paradoxically , the very fact that test-tube fusion is news has grabbed public attention and ironically could be the headline that revitalises interest and in the longer term attracts money from Congress — for hot fusion . |
| 19 | His mission , in so far as it was to reconcile the Nationalists and Communists , was a failure and indeed could hardly have been expected to be otherwise . |
| 20 | But there was the famous walk-out when he stormed off the podium and then could n't get out of the hall because all the doors were locked . |
| 21 | Before them stood a crowd of overjoyed neighbours who had shared their sorrow and now could share in their happiness . |
| 22 | A genuinely pure concept that just could n't possibly last . |
| 23 | The trouble was , as I and several other people pointed out , the universe was expanding so fast that even if the bubbles grew at the speed of light , they would be moving away from each other and so could not join up . |
| 24 | Searle did not have title and therefore could not transfer it to Harper . |
| 25 | The simple diagrams clearly showed the differences between Volvic and Spa water but nowhere could I find how actually to construct these dramatic demonstrations . |
| 26 | The Beatles , The Rolling Stones and The Who were breaking the mould but still could be found ‘ thumbs up ’ and smiling in the glamour-stuffed pages of the NME who , with its circulation well in excess of 200,000 , was firmly established as the British pop bible , a title we have never let slip from our grasp . |
| 27 | Even so , Galileo had many topics on his mind and was not solely doing astronomical research , so that the priority of a month or so could have been true . |
| 28 | ‘ It is an area that potentially could have a minor infestation for a long time . |
| 29 | ‘ It is an area that potentially could have a minor infestation for a long time . |
| 30 | The all-talking , all-colour films continued to receive more praise than perhaps could have been expected . |