Example sentences of "[Wh det] could [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are in Vicar Lane , Well Street and Peckover Street , and were built from 1853 onwards to supplement the old Piece Hall ( now demolished ) , which could no longer contain all the wool traders . |
| 2 | One major contribution , if not the most important , was the growing disagreement which raged around the loose Elizabethan compromises of religious conscience , which could no longer work when the personalities involved changed . |
| 3 | Merleau-Ponty 's argument thus meant acknowledging a certain equivocalness in Marxist claims to truth , which could no longer claim exemption from critical examination , and led inevitably , therefore , to an early form of what , even then , was characterized as ‘ post-Marxism ’ . |
| 4 | In other words , the New Critical concept of coherence took over the task of unifying meaning which could no longer be attributed to the author . |
| 5 | Others merely maintain the general atmosphere of menace and despair , while giving shape to a scene which could otherwise so easily have become itself rambling and melodramatic . |
| 6 | This was one reason why they played such an important role in the renaissance of interest in the classical world from the fifteenth century onwards : here were many examples of objects giving tangible evidence for events which could otherwise only be read about . |
| 7 | Wordsworth also inherits from Locke an intense concern with the visible universe ; although Locke tries to explain all kinds of sensory experience he is most at home with the sense of sight , which could most easily be related to Newton 's optical discoveries . |
| 8 | Foxton 's unexpected involvement has inevitably led to Stiff Little Fingers being branded a New Wave ‘ supergroup ’ , a tag which could just as easily prove a hindrance as a help . |
| 9 | A large harddisk , on the other hand , would be used to store files which could just as easily , and more safely , be stored on floppy disks . |
| 10 | The blinking was a reflex which could equally well have been set off by a puff of wind or a flash of light . |
| 11 | At work here are what Ashworth calls the ‘ ingrained attitudes ’ — which could equally well be termed ideologies — which influence sentencing decisions . |
| 12 | This proposal would have involved a different , immensely complicated , and , for suspects , terrifying new caution which could easily fatally have undermined the whole rule . |
| 13 | However , I should add , it is with regret that we have to take such drastic intervention , a course which could so easily be avoided through co-ordination and commitment by other agencies close at hand . |
| 14 | Had it not been for the empty little bottle in the pocket of her skirt — which could so easily have been swept away by the waves — the fisherman 's description of the likely accident would have satisfied everyone . |
| 15 | Nigel and I were , above all , struck by the sympathetic treatment of an area which could so easily be spoiled . |
| 16 | What he would like even more would be to own the fine boat , the means to support the boat ; and the further means to enjoy a style of life which could so easily include a fine boat , because that would surely embrace fine horses , fine coaches , fine clothes : Wealth . |
| 17 | The Party now needed to come up with a longer term programme of how to pave the way towards socialism in China as a whole , paying particular attention to the different economic situation in the south which could indeed significantly influence their future strategy . |
| 18 | The various support and maintenance activities which could relatively easily be ‘ contracted out ’ were early targets . |
| 19 | Even if you are new to it , you probably already have a range of ideas for language work which could perfectly well apply to video . |
| 20 | ( 7 ) The possible loss of such employment opportunities abroad threatens the southern DRAs now , but the complex effects of such temporary migration on DRAs require rigorous assessment ; for example , many migrant workers will be returning with capital savings and experience which could never otherwise have been accumulated . |
| 21 | If not , if the public decides against it , if they are unmoved by it , then the Glass will be broken and people will stop talking about it , which could quite easily happen in twenty years or ten years , or even sooner . |
| 22 | The issue of homelessness is at the heart of the movie but Lane manages to integrate it within a storyline which could quite easily have walked out of a Charlie Chaplin film of 70 years ago . |
| 23 | We must do all we can in the coming few years to block any parliamentary private Bill which could as easily be dealt with through this legislation . |
| 24 | Barnsley is an imposing 17th century manor house , which could all too easily be surrounded by the typically formal , landscaped gardens of the era.But ever since Rosemary Verey began gardening here thirty years ago , she 's been determined to make the four acres of grounds a welcoming place . |
| 25 | Now all I 'm suggesting to him is that there is here apparently a requirement laid down by the treaty which ca n't be aggregated by any one individual member state which could actually only be enforced by reference to a court of justice and what I 'd like to ask is in the light of this very deep seated concern by the French about Strasbourg er and the European parliament building and the knowledge that this is of such importance to the er of er voting and of representation in the community of the European elections . |
| 26 | ( 2 ) Possibly , to authorise financial assistance to be given by the target as part of the Court Scheme under the exemption for schemes of arrangement contained in CA 1985 , s153(3) ( e ) ( see para 22.1.5.3 below ) , which could only otherwise be provided afterwards ( with consequent delay ) . |
| 27 | Since the 1978 UN Conference on Health at Alma Ata it has become a universal wisdom that it is much more effective to build a primary health care network than to spend the same money on a few prestige hospitals which could only ever be used by an urban elite . |
| 28 | First , workers as the majority group in the electorate might rationally choose to maintain capitalism , not because they are duped by the dominant ideology but because their individual interests are better met under redistributive capitalism than through a painful transition to socialism , which could only conceivably deliver net benefits in the very long run . |
| 29 | The " old men " may have also left patches of unworked ground which could now readily be worked with explosives . |
| 30 | Further legislation followed , which could more reasonably be said to have united the hitherto disparate regimes of legacy and trust . |