Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a public company wishes to raise £1m , it could seek to do so by an issue of a series of , say £1 , £10 , £100 , or £1000 debentures , each representing a separate debt totalling in aggregate £1m . |
| 2 | What caitif could haue caused so foul a showe ? |
| 3 | Britain could stop spending so much on defending the Falklands . |
| 4 | Instead I smiled sweetly and asked if he could try to explain so that I could understand . |
| 5 | Beethoven , among others , could not comprehend how Mozart could have stooped so low as to set to music such an apparently frivolous text , dealing with the fickleness of women ; and the prudish moral climate of the later 19th century made sure that Così was conveniently ignored as a little aberration . |
| 6 | He did n't know ‘ what statement Mr. Gibbon had made to the other gentlemen or what reasoning they could have employed so as to sign a paper declaring the fact of urinous vomiting to be utterly impossible — here I must be at issue with them believing as I do … from my little physiological knowledge , that vomiting of urine for 26 weeks is by no means impossible … ’ . |
| 7 | Therefore , if the origin of the phenomenon is as recent as the late eighteenth century , it is difficult to explain how it could have become so geographically widespread in so short a time : it was already highly salient and overtly stigmatized by the latter half of the nineteenth century ( for some citations see Phillipps , 1984 , 136–9 ) . |
| 8 | I do n't think that was true then , though it could have become so as Saddam Hussein faced continued sanctions . |
| 9 | When Awlad Amira took control of the popular committees a few months later , ousting Mannaia from office , Umar al-Abairsh and his supporters alleged that they could have done so only with Tibbu support ; they said only Awlad Amira , poor and unenterprising , would stoop so low to get their hands on the administration : Awlad Amira denied establish the truth of such allegations : Awlad Amira denied them , as they would ; Tibbu pointed to their political inactivity , their poverty and lack of numbers , and their peacefulness ( except under provocation ) , suggesting that Mannaia were scarcely dispassionate when they talked about the results of elections . |
| 10 | She could have done so once , but now she was too tired . |
| 11 | It lacked industrial power , but alienated its neighbour and allies alike by attempting to rectify this ; it failed to maintain a democratic government , yet under the circumstances it was highly unlikely that any state could have done so . |
| 12 | Referees of DOE proposals usually remain anonymous , and Jones could have done so had he wished . |
| 13 | Your mother had an amazing imagination — that 's where yours comes from — she could have done so much better with her life … |
| 14 | Mr Smith rammed home the lunacy of gambling away ONE THOUSAND MILLION POUNDS trying to prop up the pound when the money could have done so much good at home . |
| 15 | It could have done so much to persuade this wayward son that he was actually killing himself . |
| 16 | If only she could have done so — but Con seemed to be further away from her than ever . |
| 17 | ‘ They could have done so much . |
| 18 | If Sabine had wanted to break away and work on her own she could have done so at any time . |
| 19 | If he had ever wanted to see her socially he could have done so at any time , but there had been only chance meetings since his marriage . |
| 20 | No other bishop could have done so much harm to Philip as Conrad . |
| 21 | Gabriel wished she could have done so herself . |
| 22 | She was sick with wretchedness , convinced she had only herself to blame — and of course the devastating effect Paula had on men — but still puzzled that it could have ended so suddenly without a word of explanation on his part . |
| 23 | Nothing could have made so apparent the failure of the churches to keep their congregations abreast of developments in the field of biblical scholarship . |
| 24 | The gamble had worked , when a dozen different things could have gone so terribly wrong . |
| 25 | You just feel United what , were two nil down after fourteen minutes erm things really could have gone so badly for them , but they held firm , they got back into the game and full credit to all of them . |
| 26 | After a short while the new way of moving begins to feel less strange and sometimes we can not understand how we could have moved so clumsily for so many years without realizing it . |
| 27 | Let us instead wonder how this latest episode could have turned so sour , given the wonderful international spirit which distinguishes the male world of cricket . |
| 28 | Belonging to such a close community helped assuage some of the loneliness Eva could have felt so far from her own close-knit family . |
| 29 | In 1964 , when Pople left the UK for the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh , as it was then called , his departure inspired one popular British newspaper to the headline Another brain down the drain , but given the lamentable levels of financial support by successive UK governments for the theoretical research in which Pople was to excel , it is unlikely he could have achieved so much without moving . |
| 30 | They could see Mr Flood fussing round the window of his shop as if he were still worried about what they could have found so amusing in its contents . |