Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun sg] it could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Wheeler was never particularly interested in Roman pottery , he demonstrated the way it could be used to date construc-tional sequences on the Welsh forts , and it is unfortunate that this was not developed in his work at Verulamium , where what must have been a very small proportion of the pottery was published in the Report of 1936 ( Wheeler and Wheeler , 1936 ) . |
| 2 | The award and the ceremony itself were instigated by the British Fashion Council , which tried every tactic it could -including the setting up of a smarter venue at The Duke of York 's Barracks -to persuade Katharine Hamnett to show in London . |
| 3 | Environment Secretary Michael Howard told the authority it could spend £20.2m last week £1.4m below its £21.6m budget . |
| 4 | A preview of the Commons debate was held in the Lords yesterday where Lord Ennals , a former Labour Health Secretary , warned the Government it could not push the proposals through the NHS in the knowledge that they were opposed by the medical profession 's leaders . |
| 5 | Coleman knew the power it could exercise behind the scenes , and went on hoping through the summer of 1990 that Control would somehow find the right strings to pull . |
| 6 | She liked to be in control , and this feeling gave the impression it could get out of control … |
| 7 | Only one unit of all the British farms in this study was selling dairy products directly and had a demand it could not fulfil . |
| 8 | People who do not suffer from tinnitus are usually astonished and say , wide-eyed , ‘ I had no idea it could be like that . ’ |
| 9 | I had no idea it could still hurt . |