Example sentences of "could [adv] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The union found it impossible to enforce the strike — even flying pickets could not police hundreds of separate farms . |
| 2 | I think you have to evolve , develop quite a lot of detective sense , to meet people , to imagine where could further letters be that would help me , and you have to charm your way virtually into those houses , and persuade the people erm to let you look at Grandfather 's letters in the trunk in the attic . |
| 3 | It described how there had been a fifty percent increase in food poisoning cases in district year and then it went on to say that it , it was largely , it was thought that that increase was largely because of the increased publicity which the council had been given hygiene training , and saying how many people had been trained , and how the Health Committee was being asked to provide more resources so there could more courses even , even more courses in the following year . |
| 4 | And they could n't sticks |
| 5 | Could n't men stop being so right on ? |
| 6 | Why could n't men just be faithful ? |
| 7 | Could even eels live in this cheerless commercial conduit ? |