Example sentences of "could the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His aim in this was as far as possible to translate changes of tones into changes of colour , feeling that only by this method could the full saturation and pressure of colour be realized . |
| 2 | He suggests the army could no longer be used to drain off the unemployable proletariat by conscription , nor could the newly independent colonies be used to dump the troublesome of society ( see also Hughes 1987 ) . |
| 3 | But resemblance can not explain how a thinker could experience one object as standing for another ; for how could the fact that a particular datum is similar to other things mean anything to a thinker unless he experienced it as being like many others — that is , unless he grasped it , not just as a particular but as an instance of a kind ? |
| 4 | How could the English boy go on living now that he 'd been found out ? |
| 5 | The question had to be asked : could the purchase of new trains produce savings sufficient to cover the cost of servicing their capital costs as well as reducing the burden on the PSO ? |
| 6 | How could the ‘ right ’ people be identified ? |
| 7 | Could the Kenneth Branagh backlash be beginning ? |
| 8 | Nor could the courts cope , and there would be a deterioration in the public 's perception of the police as a result of the disjuncture with lay conceptions of legality . |
| 9 | How could the undiluted works of Kautsky and Engels appeal to this audience at a time when even party members at lower levels rarely understood the meaning of such concrete words as ‘ official ’ , ‘ categorical ’ , ‘ Plenum ’ , ‘ memorandum ’ , or ‘ territory ’ ? |
| 10 | How then could the meeting at Amsterdam pose as a meeting of Christendom when the largest Church in the world refused to have anything to do with it ? |
| 11 | But could the discussion do any good ? |
| 12 | It shows how the Word could give birth to commentators ’ words , as could the castrated Origen , but gives no acceptable explanation of how it could produce Origen . |
| 13 | Only after the social formation had been constructed could the evaluation of the role of institutions and values be undertaken in terms of the place of these consciously-realized phenomena in its working . |
| 14 | Neither could the evolutions of these institutions in themselves explain anything , since , in the perspective outlined above , these were mere side effects of a more fundamental order . |
| 15 | Could the product itself have given me dandruff ? |
| 16 | The EC could absorb the 16.5 million East Germans , if it came to that , more easily than it could the two countries whose applications already lie on the table in Brussels — Austria with her backward deck-cargo of neutrality , and Turkey , with her GDP well below that of Portugal . |
| 17 | So could the Portfolio work its passage in the average pocket ? |
| 18 | What Jane could never understand , looking back , was : if this was a successful example of British industry ( Queen 's Award for Export and all that ) , whatever could the unsuccessful ones be like ? |
| 19 | Neither could the boy . |
| 20 | Could the same thing happen with a single bite from an apple ? |
| 21 | And what heaven could the preacher offer that would compare with the joys of the long summer evenings , messing about in boats with other laughing boys and girls ? |
| 22 | Could the locals be protecting someone ? |
| 23 | How could the old man possibly have got there so fast ? |
| 24 | Or could the shape have been re-arranged by the fierce wind ? |
| 25 | What could the sensation of his persona being sucked from one house of flesh and fitted , circuit by circuit , into another possibly feel like ? |
| 26 | If St Paul could appeal to Caesar , so could the bishops opposed to Paul of Samosata . |
| 27 | But never could the Elbe be securely held until the Slavs across it , the Danes near the lower end of it , and the Bohemians on its upper reaches , were all tamed and Christianized . |
| 28 | Could the pagan or Christian cults be demonstrated to be the more correct , judged by practical effects in crops , fish , and health ? |
| 29 | If they were not glad , how could the war be justified ? |
| 30 | But neither could the players talk too much about the Grand Plan , for fear of looking like busybodies in another nation 's affairs . |