Example sentences of "[noun sg] [indef pn] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If we had lost a single segment everyone could have been killed , ’ Mackenzie says . |
| 2 | Buskers played in the streets ; hawkers shouted their wares ; women met and gossiped ; kids played , as I had done when younger ; and of course nothing could , or would stop Glaswegians going to a match on Saturdays , especially to a game between the ‘ old firms ’ — Rangers and Celtic — either at Hampden Park or Parkhead . |
| 3 | He was told that within the terms of the contract nothing could be done . |
| 4 | If we had been 6-0 up at half-time no-one could have complained . |
| 5 | On the positive side one could cite the wider political knowledge acquired by a territory invaded on all sides during 1917–21 , so that at least the many peasants , caught up in military life , like our travelling soldier , might acquire broader interests . |
| 6 | In terms of emotion one could use a grammatical analogy ( see Bolton , 1978 ) that the ‘ occurring ’ emotion expressed by a participant is a verb , whereas the emotion portrayed by a performer is descriptive , an adjective , no less . |
| 7 | Hence from using a dictionary one could determine that hot dog bears little relation to canines . |
| 8 | This is the best equation one could use to forecast the current value of that is given knowledge of the current composite disturbance , and is therefore the one which rational agents will use to forecast given their information . |
| 9 | That strength of mind one could sense below the surface , that glow of authority that seemed to radiate from his skin . |
| 10 | Without the absolute power of an Egyptian Pharaoh one could scarcely test the consequences of an experiment involving the manipulation of people 's lives , for example forcing a percentage of the population to emigrate or insisting that each fertile married couple produce exactly two offspring . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're the most marvellous lover anyone could wish for . |
| 12 | ‘ She did n't utter any reproach , but her face was the greatest reproach anyone could make . ’ |
| 13 | It would still have been very difficult to explain to the Indians that they were selling their land in perpetuity , and of course nobody could have had any idea of the immense flood of immigrants that was going to cross the Atlantic . |
| 14 | Which accusation nobody could ever level at Jeffrey Bernard . |
| 15 | In battle none could stand against them , for the Dragon Princes of Caledor were fearsome mages as well as mighty warriors , and their steeds were terrible to behold . |
| 16 | It was a pity one could not invade without giving advance warnings and following the rules : it would be a pushover . |
| 17 | The monks used to be responsible for the education of the boys , teaching them the three Rs and the elements of Buddhism , the learning being almost entirely by rote , so that approaching a village one could often hear from a distance the shrill boyish voices as they repeated the lesson after their teacher . |
| 18 | So for the moment nothing could be done beyond issuing a warning . |
| 19 | But that evening nothing could touch me . |
| 20 | In the surprise-hushed room everyone could hear Carter 's whimpers . |
| 21 | ‘ The path between the car park and the sports centre is quite dark and I imagine it 's the sort of place someone could lie in wait . ’ |
| 22 | He chose a five percent discount rate table and in my opinion nobody could fault such a choice . |
| 23 | ‘ Penman said just now that there was a river down there , beyond the garden , and that if one climbed the hill one could see the sea . |
| 24 | The soft beauty of their symmetrical curves , and the sinuous outlines , accentuated as they were at morning and evening by the glancing rays of the sun , provided an artistry one could not readily forget ; and I shall long remember the delicate rosy flush , reflected for a moment from the smooth sand surfaces , as the radiance of the sunset dwindled and died like a funeral pyre . ’ |
| 25 | All that I ever learned at college of philosophy had been a conception of the external world as a colourless and soundless wilderness whose true nature one could never know , which one could not even imagine — but which I did , none the less , imagine as a vast landscape of polar spaces in whose eternal twilight one wandered , preoccupied and deluded by a flicker of magic-lantern pictures which danced inside one 's mind and for ever remained private to oneself . |
| 26 | Very often in the evening one could hear mysterious melodies issuing from some hidden corner of a hangar or a deserted office — Sheila and Matthew having a flute practice . |
| 27 | But the promises with work that we had when we went in the army , you j you 'd be looked after We got the worst damn place anybody could . |
| 28 | Though , to be sure , in my day we used so much powder one could n't always tell . ’ |
| 29 | In relation to agriculture one could draw up an " economic " budget . |
| 30 | ’ He is the most agreeable seawolf one could wish to meet with , ’ wrote one enraptured Parisienne to a friend . |