Example sentences of "[indef pn] could [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without laws , the Nail recognises , someone could just walk in and steal my bike . |
| 2 | The police say someone could easily have been killed . |
| 3 | Someone could easily make a fire in there . |
| 4 | Well it depends how you want to deal with it , I mean erm , this , the , the , the I think it was just my idea last year of , of sort of erm sharing some of the load I think at that point and hoping that someone could perhaps take over , erm , this just says the following should be elected , A , Chair , B , Secretary and C , Treasurer , but erm |
| 5 | It 's quite a horrifying thought , but someone could indeed have walked inside before the front door was locked and hidden in the building . ’ |
| 6 | The problem Christopher Barry and Raymond Cusick quickly identified was that nobody could easily detect which Dalek was speaking . |
| 7 | If Richard drove a beaten-up car , it seemed that nobody could reasonably ask for anything more themselves . |
| 8 | Nobody could reasonably dissent from this conclusion , Paley insists , yet that is just what the atheist , in effect , does when he contemplates the works of nature , for : every indication of contrivance , every manifestation of design , which existed in the watch , exists in the works of nature ; with the difference , on the side of nature , of being greater or more , and that in a degree which exceeds all computation . |
| 9 | Their faces had been beaten off to make sure nobody could later link them to a concentration camp , or even their homes , in Germany . |
| 10 | Looking back , nobody could now say how much of her success was due to her defection and how much to her playing . |
| 11 | Secondly , nobody could any longer advance the belief that sheer production — the worship of the Gross National Product — was the final test of a society 's economic vigour and success . |
| 12 | Which accusation nobody could ever level at Jeffrey Bernard . |
| 13 | And er and although it nobody could ever say that the union was politically motivated er it it 's strange to relate that at union meeting when the general strike started and we of course we were n't in the T U C we were too small anyway , although I know that there 's been unions with twenty eight members in the T U C now . |
| 14 | Nobody could ever understand how much I put into yesterday . |
| 15 | Nobody could ever forget him . |
| 16 | Nobody could ever have thought that joining a cricket club was like opening a Sunday paper colour supplement . |
| 17 | Nobody could ever bring themselves to putting an animal out of its misery because the farm was no longer talked about , although at the back of everybody 's mind was a dream of a new farm , even better than the first , with water being pumped from underground to irrigate the crops . |
| 18 | His 27-year-old son Paul has had only 10 rides , but watching him win the Martell Fox Hunters ' Chase on that splendid 13-year-old Gee-A , nobody could possibly have guessed it . |
| 19 | Equally though , nobody could possibly visualise the meteoric rise that lay ahead . |
| 20 | The whiskers were too small to see with the naked eye and nobody could possibly make a testing machine on that scale . |
| 21 | Louise picked out a pretty little pink dress that nobody could possibly take exception to and so honour was satisfied . |
| 22 | For example , nobody could possibly observe as a matter of fact that most ‘ able bodied young adults ’ are male , because half of them are female . |
| 23 | Nobody could possibly offer a definite answer to this and say how long it may take to fully overcome anxiety and stress problems . |
| 24 | Malcolm liked to rattle you , catch you off-guard by making demands nobody could possibly meet . |
| 25 | This was an eminently reasonable arrangement and nobody could possibly object . |
| 26 | Whatever one feels about his captaincy at Old Trafford , nobody could possibly do other than admire a man who went on to bat for more than five hours , immediately after suffering a truly horrific hammering in the field . |
| 27 | Er but nobody could really play the piano yet they all bought them . |
| 28 | And me granny to help me and he was the land nobody could really find that if you came across it one nasty day well you 're there and you 're kind of stop there if the went away . |
| 29 | The trouble was that nobody could quite remember where it was exactly , but everybody knew it was around there somewhere , that 's for sure . |
| 30 | There was a company developing games ; another developing an instrument called the Synthaxe ; for reasons which nobody could quite discern , there was a company dedicated to the servicing of air-conditioners , and another , called Top Nosh , selling food around industrial estates . |