Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] could [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Commonsense told her that her safety and her sanity could only be assured if she were to put a considerable distance between herself and the cottage . |
| 32 | What had been going on in her cabin could only have led to one thing , and that was something that must never happen again . |
| 33 | The Second period is that which starts from the beginning of life and reaches onward to the time when the law of the survival of the fittest with its ruthlessness could no longer serve the aspirations towards increasing happiness that were beginning to creep into the dawning consciousness of primitive man . |
| 34 | Of fascination to some , most would prefer to have it taken away or at least effectively cordoned off so that its presence could largely be ignored . |
| 35 | Thus a query and its settlement could easily drag on for hours . |
| 36 | Their decision could also be crucial to the outcome of a long legal battle between the ministry and women peace protesters who have been at Greenham for eight years . |
| 37 | To lawyers the challenge became how to find loopholes in existing contracts , through which their clients could either escape , or drive a series of new demands . |
| 38 | As the star got to the very outskirts of the hole , its light could hardly move at all at first . |
| 39 | Her steps could no longer be heard below , once she reached the corridor . |
| 40 | According to Sartre , if the dialectic had become blocked , an understanding of its detour could nevertheless only be achieved through the use of a dialectical logic . |
| 41 | Aside from the fact that Jill is quite capable of carrying her own books , her glumness could easily be due to being a young lesbian forced to suppress it and wishing Jack would take his stupid pick-up lines elsewhere . |
| 42 | Only the enemy and both of their readers could possibly consider such a question . |
| 43 | Though many adaptations have obvious applications , there are those only their creators could accurately explain . |
| 44 | Their free availability , their courage and their skill were paramount , but their skill could always be enhanced by rigorous training . |
| 45 | Heads of Department and staff were also asked to use the International Reading Association check list in relation to the most popular texts so that their responses could subsequently be checked with mine ( see appendix 2 for check list and annotation ) . |
| 46 | Morland says most of its tenants are meeting the sales targets but those landlords faced with fines say the lights on their pubs could soon be going out for good .. |
| 47 | Their influence could therefore be especially powerful . |
| 48 | Her work could then remain perfectly complete , unmarred by the unpredictable results of its emergence into the public world . |
| 49 | The recent nomination of Romano Prodi , a respected manager , as chief executive of IRI , Italy 's biggest state holding company , has revived hopes that many of its subsidiaries could soon be sold . |
| 50 | Somehow a favourite dress or toy of Paige 's would be damaged , but she had done it with such guile that her parents could never be sure it was intentional . |
| 51 | In the Fifties and Sixties , when her descendants could still fit around the same table , we gathered for Christmas at Bowhill , near Selkirk . |
| 52 | A scene from one of her films could hardly have been more perfectly stage-managed , the thought hovered , traitorously , while Lindsey managed to subdue an instinct to applaud . |
| 53 | The essence of her nature could still express itself and be known by her visitors , and it was in this quality of spirit that her last claim to beauty lay . |
| 54 | Yes , of course she had , because Grandmother had known full well that her husband could never have fathered a child . |
| 55 | I have no doubt that dedicated woodturners everywhere would scoff at the idea of engineers ' lathes being used for woodturners , but when I think of the various moulds and patterns I have made over the years with comparative ease but which due to their intricacies could only have been made with extreme difficulty on a wood lathe — if at all . |
| 56 | The parents had come to the conclusion , after soliciting expert opinion , that her needs could best be met in a special ( and , as it happened , private ) school . |
| 57 | cos their meeting could just be with you |
| 58 | Its criti-cisms could easily be dubbed ‘ elitist ’ ( not in fact a vogue word at that time ) , but they boiled down to the traditional media dilemma about how far people know what they ‘ want ’ until they have been shown choices beyond their existing experience . |
| 59 | But its name could also be based on the Chinese characters " Tsai Con , " which mean " Tribute paid to the West . " |
| 60 | She did n't want her past discussed with him — he was n't interested in it , for heaven 's sake — but she realised that there was no way that her friend could possibly be aware of those undercurrents . |