Example sentences of "could a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A glimpse of the future with Dr Phil Gates ; could a fungus become the gardener 's best friend ? |
| 2 | Could a seven-year-old understand that ? |
| 3 | What better inspiration could a literature of theory have than an audience composed of theorists and critics ? |
| 4 | The following features of a statutory redundancy payment emerged : ( 1 ) The obligation was imposed on the employer ; ( 2 ) It only arose on dismissal and might never arise if an employee worked until retirement , whether voluntary — early retirement — or at an agreed date , each of which was based on contract ; ( 3 ) It only arose if certain preconditions were proved ; ( 4 ) It applied to all employees who had worked for at least two years with an employer ; ( 5 ) Certain classes of employee were excluded , eg redundant employees refusing suitable alternative employment ; employees under a fixed-term contract of two years or more , who had renounced their redundancy rights in writing ; ( 6 ) A voluntary redundancy could be under a contractual statutory scheme , and under such a contractual scheme it was often the equivalent of early retirement by agreement ; ( 7 ) In no way could a redundancy payment be described as a deferred emolument or pay ; it was a monetary compensation for the disappearance of a job . |
| 5 | It is indeed true that balance of payments deficits can be sustained for longer than they could a generation ago ; we would have never got this far without a much worse sterling crisis if that were not the case . |
| 6 | ‘ In the same way as a working person and a taxpayer makes a specific contribution to the upkeep of the national health system , so could a specific premium or tax be levied to support publicly funded legal services , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Could a reforming East Berlin government then maintain a shoot-to-kill policy on the Wall ? |
| 8 | If students in the 1990s have difficulty in distinguishing all the political parties and coalitions that sprang up in Petrograd after the February Revolution , how could a peasant in 1917 be expected to assimilate them in the place of the Tsar , who at least represented a more easily understood form of political authority ? |
| 9 | To what extent were large profits made from spectator sports and what kind of earnings and working conditions could a professional sportsman expect ? |
| 10 | What could a lorry be carrying that its load was so valuable to a thief as to make Hatton 's a feasible reward ? |
| 11 | For how could a reader who knew nothing of the original matter — the origin of the Silmarils , the rise and fall of Numenor , the triumphs and ultimate ruin of Gondolin , etc. — find a way in ? |
| 12 | Nor could a looser grouping of sovereign states cope with the awkward trade-offs which the Western response to Eastern Europe will involve . |
| 13 | What more could a child ask for ? |
| 14 | The Creator 's computer : but how could a person communicate with a computer ? |
| 15 | How could a person have written as off-handedly , as cruelly , as she had done , yet still be able to add those cryptic letters , relic of a loving bond ? |
| 16 | When he had been given to Uncle Farmborough to be his heir and to look after him in his old age , he was considered fortunate — but how could a child reconcile itself to such a strange state of affairs that he had been given away , to the fact that his own father and mother , brother and sister , lived quite near in the village but , as it were , in a different camp ? |
| 17 | Could a jolly day out in Lille teach him anything he did n't already know ? |
| 18 | At lunch at the commissary of 20th Century Fox , Spyros P. Skouras ( he who had insisted that his movie makers clear themselves of Communist taint ) asked in his speech where else in the world but in America could a poor Greek boy have become so important a person as president of 20th Century Fox ? |
| 19 | How could a man who feels as I do , who writes what I have written , behave towards a woman — any woman — in ways remotely akin to the ones which have been suggested ? |
| 20 | Only in the Soviet Union could a blind woman have risen to her eminence in cinematography . |
| 21 | How far could a minister of the people be educated beyond their level ? |
| 22 | Nowhere else could a sign be displayed saying : ‘ No loitering in this yard except on business . ’ |
| 23 | Government by minority is usually bad government ; in no truly democratic country could a disaster like the poll tax have been pushed through in defiance of public opinion , wasting billions of pounds and causing misery to millions of people . |
| 24 | How could a child as well cared for as that vanish from her ordinary life without someone raising a hullabaloo ? |
| 25 | How could a sovereign who reigned by the will of the people resist totally such overt manifestations — confirmed as they were by the reports of similar sentiments being expressed the length and breadth of France ? |
| 26 | In what special ways , Sarah Matthews asks , could a group of American widows maintain their sense of self-identity ? |
| 27 | I translated as well as I could a Scottish strath with its green basin , and the heather slopes rising from it lost to rabbits and sheep and rock . |
| 28 | Deadly snakes , dangerous jungle and swollen rivers — what more could a humble daredevil want ? |
| 29 | Could a course of treatment be judged without reference to the accompanying activities of the doctors who arranged it ? |
| 30 | But how could a fig tree ‘ retaliate' ? |