Example sentences of "to [det] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sample of 120 households was therefore divided into three matched lists of 40 addresses , A , B and C. Each provided a coverage of the major social and ethnic variations in residential pattern similar to that which could be found in the original list of 120 . |
| 2 | here we could have a hundred N right and then we 'd add eight hundred on to each one could n't we . |
| 3 | The availability of legal aid to those unable to afford to pursue their legal rights in the courts made a practical reality of the access to justice to many who could not have afforded to do so . |
| 4 | But in the twelfth century , by and large , whoever could enter the ranks of the privileged clergy could hope for a bishopric ; and the ranks of the privileged clergy were open to all who could find patronage , whether because of birth or talent or good luck . |
| 5 | With grants available to all who could gain entry to university or polytechnic , initial teaching training courses came to be filled , in part , with young people whose ‘ A ’ level grades were not high enough to gain entrance on conventional university course . |
| 6 | The first practical measures of educational extension were instituted during the 1850s and 1860s when London degrees were opened to all who could pass an " external " examination , but it was only towards the end of the 1860s that an emphasis on English language , literature , and history became an important feature of the process of extension . |
| 7 | But large numbers of people set a value by this differential service , by no means restricted to those one could regard as rich . |
| 8 | But these inconveniences can not be related to those which could result at a given moment from the capture by the enemy of three or four battalions , with a loss , by consequence , of several thousands of men . |
| 9 | In the Revolution landowners had disposed of large quantities of farm equipment to those who could afford it . |
| 10 | Communal farming , however , was still important to those who could not acquire and enclose private farms . |
| 11 | introduce a comprehensive disability income scheme , which would give an income to those who could not work , or whose work was interrupted or restricted by disability . |
| 12 | The private sector , however , had no intention of extending coverage to those who could offer it little or no return on their balance sheet . |
| 13 | Ada and Daisy 's task was to hand round food , and to talk to those who could manage some conversation . |
| 14 | And that created a difference of opinion between certain of our members who were not in receipt of any incentive payment , as opposed to those who could clearly indulge in it and , and , and make a reasonable er er profit out of it . |
| 15 | Huddle had told him about the rogue , turning up in his garish garments and standing on the church steps , offering to sell pardons to those who could afford them . |
| 16 | There were even Jacobite ballads , some of them performed by itinerant singers ; in this way , the Jacobite message could be transmitted even to those who could not read . |
| 17 | All recordings are genuine , manufactured and supplied by the world 's leading record companies — and are identical to those you could buy from any leading store . |