Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] that [pers pn] could " in BNC.

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1 Do you think it 's possible the Iraqis here living in this country could have some of these nerve gases that they could explode if the situation in Iraq gets very bad ?
2 I was reminding the golfing spirits that I could not be caught napping .
3 The British realized during the war years that they could never reap the benefits of the expected postwar boom in international civil aviation without a coherent national programme that would enable Britain to compete on equal terms with the United States .
4 We would have hoped that the county and district councils would have so organized their selection processes that they could have come to this examination in public fully prepared to argue the merits of geographical location .
5 There are two colour schemes that you could use for your arrangement .
6 However , getting agreement at the planning meetings that we could have lesbian-only workshop space was hard work .
7 The commercial banks , along with some members on the IMF executive board , warned that if the IMF agreement were ratified under these circumstances , it would send a clear signal to other debtor countries that they could reach agreements without having to meet their interest liabilities .
8 I that in terms of many of the so called efficiency measures that we could take , we are reaching the absolute limits in this authority .
9 Can I also add that it will also instigate centrally determined policing policies , very much akin to other government policies , particularly economic policies which have , as yet , done nothing to address the underlying causes of crime and there are fears and I 'm quoting here from the er the response made by the Association of Metropolitan Authorities , the Association of County Councils and the Association of District Councils that it could lead to a national Police force .
10 Organisers of the Tenerife Open failed to make the requisite telephone call by 10am yesterday morning to tell tour officials that they could raise the money , so it has been replaced by the Atlantic Open at Estela , near Oporto , from February 15-18 .
11 I like to read about my time and it was only really in the style magazines that I could get in touch with people of my generation — black or white .
12 Like any actor who has to play many different parts , all Reagan wanted were a few good lines written for him on cue cards that he could quote without having to tax his own abilities .
13 His first step towards that freedom was to tell the Zoo authorities that he could not work inside any of the cages or buildings or go where animals were confined .
14 He was quite determined that I was going to try and escape , and followed so close behind me on the railway stations that I could smell his breath .
15 Some countries choose to import food items that they could easily grow for themselves because they find it commercially advantageous to grow industrial raw materials for export and to import the food they need , which tends to be less costly relative to their exports .
16 I think just the fact that my wife knew what was going on , and knew the problems exactly you know , they had their own meetings and the food parcels that they could organize , you know I would n't have a clue how to go about it , the fact that various shops refused to have collection points inside , and they wrote off to the management of these shops and got that changed .
17 you can write down these words , that would then be given you a clue things that you could be saying to your customers , where , right , if you start thinking about the job that you 're doing and I give you the word where , right you think of the number of times you can use the word where , with a customer , right
18 Clad in a coat which was so stiff with gold wire and seed pearls that he could scarcely bend his arms he rode with his escort beneath a line of arches which were suspended on ropes between houses on opposite sides of one of the main streets .
19 Make a series of paragraph or section headings that you could use in a one-hour exam answer .
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