Example sentences of "[noun pl] [indef pn] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alternatively it may be that you hanker after some lost love and are therefore convinced that we are doing the same , when in most cases nothing could be further from the truth . |
| 2 | Malcolm liked to rattle you , catch you off-guard by making demands nobody could possibly meet . |
| 3 | In some respects one could regard patients , GPs and specialists as , in Schutz 's ( 1964 ) terms , man-in-the-street , well-informed citizen and expert respectively . |
| 4 | The opening passage of Henry James 's The Pupil resembles the preceding extract in its in medias res technique , but in other respects one could scarcely find two more dissimilar beginnings to a story . |
| 5 | He further argues that Derrida 's fundamental claim that speech is really writing , and that writing is prior to speech , is based on a redefinition of terms , and that by such methods one could prove anything , that the rich are really poor , that the true is really false , and so on . |
| 6 | Actually , he was more of a grizzly bear in human form — a short , solid man with a shaggy mane of hair and a full beard , and the twinkliest brown eyes anyone could ever imagine . |
| 7 | How could one refuse tenderness to someone so frail and tiny , to someone whose bones one could break with the flick of wrist , to someone who greeted one with smiles and later whoops of purest delight , who wept if one left them , and would die if one neglected them ? |
| 8 | There are many other areas one could consider , especially meeting the environment aspirations of special needs groups , and the implications of National Vocational Qualifications in the environmental sector . |
| 9 | Most of the criticisms one could make concern errors of omission rather than of commission . |
| 10 | Anyone taking a detecting holiday in Northumberland , the Lake District , the Yorkshire Dales or in Derbyshire 's Peak District will have all the late-Victorian and Edwardian sites one could ever hope for , when armed with a copy of the northern edition . |
| 11 | Calmer conditions limited the stunts one could perform ; but here at last was a totally Silent K(n)ite ! |
| 12 | And most other parents one could have calmed down — smoothed things over somehow — but Mrs Willmot , well , we know Mrs Willmot , do n't we ? |
| 13 | He wrote home often , trying to keep his family 's spirits up , but between the lines one could read that life was not good . |
| 14 | Unlike some hatchbacks one could mention , this seems to be solidly built with a first-class chassis . |
| 15 | Since no one could imagine that in these circumstances or in any other circumstances anyone could successfully impersonate Ramsey , the ritual was a piece of legal nothing which allowed a Protestant agitator the chance of publicity which might help his own cause but must also help Ramsey . |
| 16 | Given that the conductor is Rudolf Barshai , this was a disc of which I had high expectations , and the musicians of the Vancouver SO play the score with an admirable combination of restraint and accuracy which provides , in the end , a rather more affecting experience than some of the more histrionic versions one could name . |
| 17 | There are many reasons one could argue for this descent into retirement . |
| 18 | The reason Morgan gave to explain why corporate descent groups were organized matrilineally was that since there were no individual unions within such groups one could never be sure of the identity of one 's father . |
| 19 | There are many different rules one could try to follow : |
| 20 | Under such conditions one could not afford to despise what was well known . |
| 21 | I hasten to add that when I was responsible , as Secretary of State for the Environment , for such developments in England , I found that , with certain conditions one could improve the environment over a period of years . |
| 22 | I had always believed that survival lay in the mind but now I knew there were things one could n't survive . |
| 23 | Thus the intrinsic value of something follows from its intrinsic nature , so that nothing exactly like it could be of a different intrinsic value , while yet it is not one of the features one could properly list in indicating what something else would have to be like to be just like this thing . |
| 24 | In the case of a young man of 25 in a managerial or professional occupation with good job prospects one could reasonably expect a multiplier of 17 or 18 . |
| 25 | Once slowed with the airbrakes one could manoeuvre close in with great accuracy , but with fuel running low it was time to descend to base . |
| 26 | In many ways one could argue that there was nothing new in the FMI ; it was simply that many of these changes were almost two decades late in being recommended since they closely resemble many of the proposals contained in the Fulton Committee Report of 1968 ( Cmnd. 3638 ) . |
| 27 | It was the kind of story that she would relish but with her blunt ways one could never be sure she would n't at some time let the cat out of the bag . |
| 28 | His host had mentioned three daughters , but they were definitely not the sort of girls one could tumble into bed and then forget . |
| 29 | As I cycled faster and faster each morning as my legs grew stronger , I would imagine myself to be beating a world record for the number of times anyone could ride round our yard in one morning . |
| 30 | It was great fun , Jack Benny being one of the most astute performers anyone could meet . |