Example sentences of "[vb past] what could " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added what could , with a slight dose of exaggeration , serve as the epitaph of modern Cabinet government : ‘ All we can do is press every button we 've got . |
| 2 | Rune muttered what could only have been a string of invective in his own language as he released his hold on her . |
| 3 | GRAEME RALPH 's quick thinking prevented what could have been a devastating rail crash . |
| 4 | He thus turned what could have been a tragedy into a melodrama , i.e. ‘ a sensational dramatic piece with crude appeals to the emotions ’ ( O.E.D. ) . |
| 5 | Pioneers such as Octavia Hill showed what could be done in altering and repairing sub-standard property and in new methods of housing management and rent collection . |
| 6 | As a result , Brunel could argue that killing off the quickie at the end of the decade was a mistake since it was possible to make ‘ really fine , unspectacular pictures ’ , and ‘ we were evolving a technique that showed what could be done when facing fearful odds . ’ |
| 7 | England were soon losing wickets when play began , four going down for 80 ; but then Lamb and Robin Smith , on debut , showed what could be done , and on the Friday morning posted a century partnership and looked good for plenty more . |
| 8 | It showed what could be achieved when the Treasury and the DHSS worked together . |
| 9 | Nigel Lawson showed what could be done with it . |
| 10 | These two models were compared , leading to a third model that showed what could happen once the Act was implemented . |
| 11 | This paper 's remarkable success in increasing sales between 1965 and 1969 not only showed what could be achieved by a powerful sales campaign ( which also brought in advertising at higher rates ) but also indicated that new purchasers of newspapers were not attracted to the party press , whose sales remained relatively stagnant . |
| 12 | Robert Cecil then showed what could be done by raising the profits of wardship from £14,700 in 1597/98 to £22,300 in 1601/02 . |
| 13 | Wallace came on shortly before time and showed what could have been with some fast ground-oriented attacking . |
| 14 | Commenting on the changes , a BR spokeswoman said : ‘ Darlington was a forerunner of similar schemes throughout the country and showed what could be achieved when local authorities got together with British Rail . ’ |
| 15 | Although ignoring man and control systems , taking many detailed facts from the period of physical geography before systems and beginning with two chapters which are very climatologically inspired , nevertheless the approach was refreshing in that it indicated what could be done to redress the imbalance detected by some physical geographers ( e.g. Brown , 1975 ) and to counter the increasingly fissiparist tendencies of the previous decades . |
| 16 | Maidstone 's face displayed what could almost have been called a mischievous grin . |
| 17 | Secondary to that , I anticipated what could possibly be done with such power . |
| 18 | He also had an eagle two at the 11th and two more birdies at 13 and 14 but dropped shots at 15 and 16 spoilt what could have been a six under par round . |
| 19 | Er and these people er understood what could be got f er what little bits could be got out of the er various unemployment er acts , and er this knowledge , er plus the pressures and feelings that were able to be brought to bear , I 'm quite sure did er did benefit many er many people who who were unemployed . |
| 20 | She watched as his eyes fell to her mouth and knew what could so easily come next . |
| 21 | Indeed , not even Eratosthenes presented what could be considered a decent amount of information according to the standards of later times . |
| 22 | There had been pressure from the Tourist Board and Turkish TV crews to start the rafting trip from a particularly scenic and dramatic place and the guides misjudged what could be achieved with a novice crew . |
| 23 | Mr Berge asked what could be more appropriate than to open with a French composer ? |
| 24 | FISHERMAN Robert Carlton made what could be a £100,000 catch when he salvaged a luxury yacht abandoned in a gale near the Channel isle of Alderney . |
| 25 | Enlightenment now revealed what could and should be done , planned town life offering ‘ Beauty , Health and Convenience ’ ( p. 104 ) . |
| 26 | At best , she had what could be described as deuterocanonical status ; she was unquestionably outside the usual canon of poets , but occasionally she was rediscovered and even admired . |
| 27 | Less than one third of respondents who had a mother living included her as a person to whom they felt very close , and hardly any had what could be described as a ‘ true ’ close relationship with their mother ( using criteria developed from the Brown and Harris study ) . |
| 28 | Further west , the resorts of Vail in Colorado , and Calgary in Canada averted what could have been a disastrous Winter Olympics last February by making extensive use of artificial snow . |
| 29 | He and Philip Burton conducted what could be looked on as some kind of elaborate courtship ritual which would result in his hurtling on to a world stage . |
| 30 | 1 we examined the purposes of research into materials and considered what could be termed the theoretical , the practical and the analytical approaches to materials research . |