Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] that [pers pn] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took a look at this man before her and summed him up in five seconds flat : he was from the country ; he was perspiring because he was wearing his one and only suit which was too heavy for the weather ; his shoes were outrageous , huge , clod-hopping things , but at least they had been polished ; his hands were heavy , his fingers thick as sausages so he was definitely a man of the land ; despite all that , he was quite polite and well-spoken though with a strong accent that she could identify as being Scottish but from which part of Scotland she could not say ; for some reason she was quite sure he was a liar . |
| 2 | It was a metallic smell that you could somehow taste , which she found quite unpleasant . |
| 3 | He took care to appear blithely unworried as he strolled with his staff , for he knew only too well how the French sympathizers in the city were looking for any sign of allied defeatism that they could turn into an argument to demoralize the Dutch-Belgian troops . |
| 4 | For practitioners , what was needed was an essay that was not too long , and which attempted to develop specific proposals that they could act upon . |
| 5 | I thought that it was very polite that we should go there in the evening and assess for ourselves exactly the harm th the possible harm that it could do to their gardens at the back and and that 's why we did that . |
| 6 | Erm with some of these it may even be possible to y'know there 's a number of different adjectives that you could try with with some of these things like erm y'know how would you feel about knowing that you 're attractive to your own sex ? |
| 7 | OFFICIALS of an apparently doomed workingmen 's club have been given fresh hope that it could survive . |
| 8 | The main light was behind him , but I could still see the shadows on his face ; they were more marked than ever , and I had the foolish illusion that I could remove them by stroking them with the tips of my fingers . |
| 9 | Above all , Britain had failed to convince the new French president that it could be nothing but a rival to France for European leadership . |
| 10 | No velvet dress , — no lovely soft crushed velvet that you could stroke , with its beautiful lacy trim . |
| 11 | There were in fact three different Cuzcos that I could see . |
| 12 | God never promised the old humanity that it could resist and defeat the Evil One . |
| 13 | That 's right , that 's right , yes , how we consume these products , yes , I mean , you 're right , so a potato is a potato is a potato , but if it 's pre-packed , graded and washed , that is sort of intrinsically different from er , er , sort of , mouldy , scruffy old potatoes that you could buy at a greengrocer . |
| 14 | With the help of his neighbours and by studying every relevant historical record that he could lay his hands on , Gough was able to trace the personal history of every family in his parish — often through several generations — and to show , incidentally , that intermarriage between the long-established families strengthened the bonds that made people think of themselves as a special community somehow different from all the others . |
| 15 | If man does not bring to the universal conscience the paramount importance of self-control , monitored with reference to some all-powerful influence such as the Created God of this book , there is a grave danger that he could send his earth back to its pre-life state . |
| 16 | The Luton workers valued the high incomes that they could earn ; they were involved in a ‘ quest for affluence ’ . |
| 17 | The scissors themselves were ordinary enough , standard office issue , and shining steel : there was no outward sign that they could have been a weapon of murder , Dexter thought . |
| 18 | I told the hon. Gentleman that I could not give him the information for which he asked until October , when the 1991 population figures would become available . |
| 19 | I went to the cinema considering that that would be of more benefit than taking a Latin exam that I could not pass . |
| 20 | At a famous photocall by the Bridge of Dee on the Balmoral estate , Diana told the assembled media that she could ‘ highly recommend ’ married life . |
| 21 | ( The term used was ‘ suspended ’ in order to remind the British Government that it could be resumed if it were to give cause . ) |
| 22 | Although horses love chewing rope , there is a high risk that it could be swallowed . |
| 23 | At a very early stage the apostle Paul was confronted by opposed parties , the one contending that the freedom of the Spirit so emancipated them from social convention that they could act as they pleased , especially in sexual indulgence , the other with more plausibility holding that the life of the Spirit required renunciation of marriage . |
| 24 | Local farmers , too , were forced to face up to the unpleasant fact that they could no longer compete with the Poles because of the low cost of Polish labour and the high Reich and Polish tariff barriers . |
| 25 | The table suggests some of the popular shrubs that you could propagate successfully now , but there are many more . |
| 26 | And although she was n't stupid enough to know that he would n't catch up with her eventually , when his role as host was over , if not before , she had high hopes that she could escape before that eventuality . |
| 27 | At least two further broken engagements that he could remember : one to a Battle of Britain flying ace , the other to an Italian count internationally celebrated as a racing driver . |
| 28 | My aim was always to build working models that I could control . |
| 29 | A new coalition of centrist , environmentalist and Maori parties , formed on Dec. 1 , showed early signs that it could challenge the traditional two-party structure of New Zealand politics . |
| 30 | All the while , Piers hovered in the background , not saying a word , like some dark , dangerous force that she could turn her back on but could n't quite manage to ignore . |