Example sentences of "[coord] what could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather , we fear what has not previously been within the realms of our experience : the unknown , or what could be . |
| 2 | ‘ Forensic should be able to identify Harry 's blood , or what could be Harry 's blood , on the shirt-sleeve as well as Berowne 's own . |
| 3 | this is the this is it 's so easy , you think what 's an alternative to steel , oh it must be a metal , how could I make a bath out of copper or what could it be . |
| 4 | The latter are the trailblazers or what could be termed the ’ baddies ’ . |
| 5 | where could it be ? or what could I be doing wrong ? any ideas ? |
| 6 | An and he 's taking up what might , we might want to or , or what could be portrayed as restorationist as being revolutionary where I , I 'm not sure that it fully was a revolution er a and I you see what Mao is saying is that there would have been a class basis for all of this , they were doing it as a class of peasant , they might not have been , they might have been doing it just for restorationist purposes . |
| 7 | And what could they do to him then ? |
| 8 | Much work might remain for the clergy both in imposing a code of Christian morals , and in determining where the line was to run between what could and what could not form a respectable part of the Christian life . |
| 9 | All these considerations apart , and what could be better than a democratic choice by a democratic sovereign , Napoleon III was in love with Eugénie . |
| 10 | Who was this strange flower waving fellow and what could the band possibly sound like ? |
| 11 | Whether they eventually become brilliant scholars or not does n't really matter ; we will have played a significant part in creating a happy and confident individual — and what could be more important than that ? |
| 12 | List what went well and what could have gone better . |
| 13 | So when the searcher eventually believes and becomes a Christian ( I am ignoring for the moment the other levels of understanding which are involved ) , he is nothing if not a man with a memory and a man of special gratitude : Whatever he becomes , wherever he goes , whatever he does , he should never be unaware of what once was , what might have been and what could well be again . |
| 14 | Their turnover rate is somewhat slower than undergravels and what could be worrying about them is their ability to deal with sudden surges in load . |
| 15 | And what could be better than a guitar which is guaranteed to be one of a limited number produced this year ? |
| 16 | The UK side of TVS is being run down but it has a pile of cash and what could be highly profitable operations in the US via MTM . |
| 17 | Our Christmas party sweaters for big and little girls are scattered with all the motifs of the season and what could be more delightful than Wendy Phillips ' teddies , kissing under the mistletoe ? |
| 18 | Mutiny by the men , and what could a Petty Officer do if the Ministry in Moscow determined that the sailors of the Storozhevoy should not be freed from their conscripted service after four years at sea , that they should serve another year , what could a Petty Officer to ? |
| 19 | Already across a wide range of different activities he points to advances in the process of ‘ breaking up , dissolving and methodologically as well as critically reconceiving the unitary field ruled hitherto by Orientalism , historicism , and what could be called essentialist universalism ’ . |
| 20 | A second preoccupation evident in these papers is responsibility , and what could roughly be described as the ethical dimension of conceptualisation . |
| 21 | What terms would the English try to impose , and what could the French hope to get away with ? |
| 22 | And what could twenty-two-year-old trainee social worker Gillian Wyatt do for them ? |
| 23 | It is at least disconcerting and sometimes painful to have the memories flooding back to spoil the enjoyment of success , and what could be more effective in bringing back the memories than the sight of an unknown stranger receiving an honorary degree apparently for no good reason . |
| 24 | there was and what could we do about it |
| 25 | There has to be a demand out there for this kind of thing , everyone is so hip to the idea of ambient music nowadays , and what could be more consummately ambient than a fridge ? |
| 26 | If Donuel ( Domnall ) , father of Talorcan 's successors in the kingship of the Picts , first Gartnait and then Drest , could be securely identified as Domnall Brecc , formerly king of Dál Riata , Gartnait and Drest could perhaps be viewed as the beneficiaries of an alliance between the Scots and the northern Angles against the Picts ; but Donuel 's identification with Domnall Brecc is not certain , and what could have been a break in the succession of kings of the Picts occurred from 663 to 665/6 between the death of Gartnait and the accession of Drest . |
| 27 | He stared at the rows of glass jars below the books on the walls — and saw an eye staring back at him from one of them , and what could have been a human foetus in another . |
| 28 | headquarters , left strict instructions about what news and reports should be channelled to his home number immediately , and what could wait , and drove with the exaggerated care and deliberation of sleeplessness back towards the village of Comerford , uncomfortably in transition to a suburban area , where he , and the unhappy parents of the boy Boden , lived within three doors of each other . |
| 29 | They 'd have been worried sick about her , and what could they do so many miles away ? |
| 30 | Now she took care to change the subject and what could be more natural than to talk to the vet and his sister about Faustina and to speculate on what she might be doing at this moment . |