Example sentences of "[noun] could [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This group concluded that Mrs Thatcher 's continued participation in the contest could only prove disastrous for the party : she might either scrape a narrow victory and limp on , having lost the confidence of the party , or lose and allow Heseltine to become Prime Minister . |
| 2 | If section 9(4) was intended to have the effect contended for in the skeleton argument of Mr. William Charles , appearing for the Treasury Solicitor , appropriate words could easily have been found . |
| 3 | The sound in " key " is said further forward than that in " car " , but the difference is not contrastive , i.e. the words could never mean anything else if you should happen to use the " wrong k " . |
| 4 | Words could then be rated on their a priori distinctness as well as on their goodness of match . |
| 5 | Though his words could hardly be construed as an apology , and nothing had been resolved , Luce was so incandescent with happiness that she thought sleep would be impossible . |
| 6 | For the sensory input , the problem was to explain how mispronounced , or otherwise deviant words could nonetheless still be correctly identified . |
| 7 | Non-words and regular words could still be read aloud accurately ( because the non-lexical procedure can handle both these types of stimuli correctly ) ; but exception words would suffer . |
| 8 | If she did n't change it , I suppose Doogie could always poison it . |
| 9 | Inspector Blakelock or Brend Pridmore could easily have had occasion to go there . |
| 10 | Quakers had long distinguished between the policeman and the soldier , and the suppression of disorder among heathens was seen as legitimate in a way that prosecuting war between civilized Christian peoples could never be . |
| 11 | A job like laminating these legs could hardly be more satisfying . |
| 12 | Although the pins and needles in his legs could perhaps have been from loss of blood . |
| 13 | To achieve this end , Sir Edward had to overcome the parochial instincts of many teachers who felt , with some justification , that no Whitehall mandarin or local authority bureaucrat could possibly understand the problems or needs of the particular children they were teaching . |
| 14 | Would it not be very short sighted of the western democracies — not simply Britain — to allow the countries which now make up the Commonwealth of Independent States to drift into such a state of anarchy that a dictatorship could well return ? |
| 15 | Without Gollum Good could never have succeeded in destroying Evil and when the Ring is gone the Elves feel forced to leave Middle Earth because there is nothing more for them to do . |
| 16 | A single horse could easily pull a boat loaded with 60 tons . |
| 17 | It was easier galloping with his head straight , and the horse could now see that the man was quite relaxed . |
| 18 | By April 1927 Nizan could justifiably claim : " My life has a direction . " |
| 19 | But Amin Rajan could also be right in predicting that financial houses will have a declining influence in the City . |
| 20 | Having driven past in the usual manner , the driver then had to go through a second time in reverse so that the mourners on the other side could also take a look . |
| 21 | Each side could also retain 18,000 armoured infantry combat vehicles weighing between 6 and 16.5 tonnes , and 12,000 lighter armoured vehicles . |
| 22 | In consequence to this , they ran in four tries to their opponents ' two , but the Shane Park side could well have found a real prospect in winger Graeme McCluskey . |
| 23 | She had the knack of handling him if he got worked up about the posing , she knew how to quieten him down , and this ability to put up with his disagreeable side could only mean one thing , he reasoned . |
| 24 | Adrian Jones ( 2–35 ) was the most successful Merioneth bowler , but his side could only manage 125 off 49 overs in reply . |
| 25 | It is that if speech can be bilaterally represented , then damage to the speech areas of one side could conceivably occur without any ensuing aphasia . |
| 26 | When Gary Bennett gave them a fourth-minute lead against promotion-chasing Leicester , the Roker Park side could hardly have made a better start . |
| 27 | ‘ Spies on our side could hardly pass unnoticed . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It would appear that this Adamantios Andropulos , who is Hawkins 's temporary guest-I could well imagine that Admiral Hawkins would use the term ‘ guest ’ even if this unfortunate were clapped in irons in some shipboard dungeon — has an account with a Washington bank , name and address supplied , of some eighteen million dollars , and would we kindly make enquiries to see if he has been disbursing any of this of late and , if so , in what direction . |
| 29 | The need to emphasise that God would not maintain the system indefinitely no matter what restrictive practices and losses could hardly have been greater . |
| 30 | Like his father , who had appointed him bishop , Richard could only admire the courage and saintliness of Hugh of Lincoln . |