Example sentences of "that [pers pn] could be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the third day Susan received a letter from him in which he explained that he was in a clinic for marioc addicts , ‘ Not that I could be called an addict , ’ he wrote , ‘ and this place is more of a health farm , really . ’ |
| 2 | It was because I was subconsciously sure of them that it never occurred to me that I could be rejected . |
| 3 | Anyone in the city who knew me also knew that I could be found there , at some time every night , if I was on the planet . |
| 4 | As the spend over the three years will be more than that — last year 's spend was £17 million and I expect this year 's to be £25 million , making a total of £42 million — I suppose that I could give my hon. Friend the assurance that he seeks , but even if our figures were so way out that I could be caught on that commitment , when I consider the matter next May — assuming that the burden still falls to me to do so — I would have to make the same calculation as I made this year . |
| 5 | It was eventually agreed that I could be allowed to bring up the subject . |
| 6 | On the way we stopped in many towns and villages , so that I could be shown to people . |
| 7 | I do n't think the doctors really believed that she could be saved . ’ |
| 8 | Delight that she could be stirred by another person . |
| 9 | My maternal grandmother was living with us at the time , it having been decided that her flat in Highgate should be closed down for the duration of the war , and she circulated between the homes of her son and three daughters so that she could be looked after . |
| 10 | I seriously believe that she could be brought up to university standard in two or three years with the proper coaching . ’ |
| 11 | Mrs Kettering wanted three girls and a fortyish couple so that they could sit by candlelight on their terrace , so that she could be taken for Sandra and Hugh for … but what was Mr Kettering 's Christian name ? |
| 12 | It 's not that she could be offenced at that about that |
| 13 | She had had the tiresome habit of subjecting her speech-writers to a sixth-form question and answer session along the lines of , ‘ Tell me Chris , what do you mean by ‘ liberty ’ ? ’ and it was not until the welcome arrival of a cheerful Denis at two-thirty in the morning that she could be persuaded to go to bed . |
| 14 | There were still — at the end of the enlightened eighteenth century , that Age of Reason which matched itself against Athens — old women in Lamplugh who were convinced that you could be led to your death by a will-o'-the-wisp or terrified out of life by the fairies . |
| 15 | The same if you were thinking of murdering this person and you knew that you could be traced you 'd bloody think twice if you were gon na be hanged or chaired . |
| 16 | Menaggio is a super lakeside resort that feels so untouristy that you could be forgiven for thinking it was just a typical Italian village . |
| 17 | Because the device drivers operate at DOS level , the new drives appear as additional drives to the client machine — in both DOS and Windows — so much so that you could be forgiven for thinking that they were part of your machine . |
| 18 | Mm , because you , you erm have er the , obviously that you could be sent some dubious tapes ? |
| 19 | But did you realise that you could be landed with a huge bill afterwards ? |
| 20 | the maximum that you could be covered for would be seventy five percent of your annual salary |
| 21 | Management ought to look at the work that you do and that you could be asked to do under any contractual ‘ flexibility ’ provisions before finally deciding upon the groups of people from which redundancy candidates will be sought . |
| 22 | Should you fail to appreciate this , and simply ignore them , there is a real likelihood that you could be bitten . |
| 23 | It is not just that we clearly do understand something ; rather we know in advance that it is only by understanding the sceptic 's argument as we are clearly expected to , that we could be led to believe that we understand nothing . |
| 24 | And erm they were determined that we should all work near as proficient in milking to go and take over , so we had to learn to hand milk , to use three different types of milking machines and to do all the necessary sterilizing and everything else , so that we could be used straight away when we got to the farm . |
| 25 | The loss of speed from their rougher bottoms was compensated by the fact that they could be sailed harder than wooden ships in blowing weather . |
| 26 | Martha and I married during the Second World War , as did Steven 's parents , when wedding couples needed clothing coupons from all their relatives to make the wedding dress and wedding suits , which had to be of sensible material so that they could be worn again . |
| 27 | He wanted to do a Beatle medley and for that we made four cut-out caricatures of The Beatles in hardboard and painted them and then fitted them on frames and easels so that they could be stood up and moved around . |
| 28 | Even if the tentative identification of the advantages of specialist working for this client group were to be confirmed by more extensive data , it may well be that they could be offset by other features of a generic social work service to the area . |
| 29 | When the negotiations with the GPRA began , at Evian , in May 1961 , de Gaulle was optimistic that they could be concluded speedily . |
| 30 | Following the sale of the cargo and the payment of the net proceeds , U.S.$2,353,991.95 , into court , nothing further was done in the action until 16 January 1992 when Crossman Block issued a summons as ‘ solicitors for the Republic of Somalia ’ applying that the Republic of Somalia be joined as a party to the action , that the buyers of the cargo be also joined , presumably so that they could be bound by any decision of the court , and that |