Example sentences of "could [vb infin] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible that in the past any Zuwayi would have felt free to continue personally the feud with Zliten if he could allege that the peace was unsatisfactory or incomplete . |
| 2 | One could hypothesise that there is some phonological clue to ethnicity in this speaker 's speech which is apparent to members of the black community but not to others . |
| 3 | The people understood that their children were with God , but no one could explain that to Emily 's dog , Keeper . |
| 4 | He could explain that this had been written a long time ago , when he was quite a different person . |
| 5 | A man who could decree that the waiters should be given a disgusting breakfast prior to serving their masters with cold ham , kedgeree , scrambled eggs with smoked salmon , grilled wild mushrooms , devilled kidneys and much , much more , was a man who deserved to have his teapot emptied over his scrofulous head . |
| 6 | In such a case where the true facts can only be known by the defence the prosecution could aver that the driver was unlicensed . |
| 7 | Before leaving the question on the nationality requirement , I would also point out in passing that , at the hearing , the Commission agreed that the flag state could stipulate that the captain of the vessel and the mate should have its nationality . |
| 8 | See that Marks and Spencers seafood lasagne Derek could eat that to a band playin … |
| 9 | To those who argued that the policy was deluded , its sponsors could answer that it had good aims in view ; indeed , the more glaring the disappointment , the more glowing the colours in which those aims were painted . |
| 10 | I wonder if I could answer that in a in a different way because clearly rather there 's the option , rather than reduction the operational capability which was really the er initiative that had begun in nineteen ninety two , there is the option of course of er adjusting the total numbers and that would er have an overall bearing on the total programme cost but cert because certainly the judgement of the er the chiefs of staff was that er as far as the U K was concerned then we we should retain the operational capability as I explained earlier an n and not decrease it in any significant extent because if we did that then we could end up er with an inferior capability against a potential threat . |
| 11 | precisely Mr Chairman if I could answer that the , the , the once the inspector comes back to the Fire Service and reports again and he is due back in June , we will then look at the matters he raises at that time and he will look at the progress report er what , what has happened since his last inspection and then we will have the opportunity to look at what the Inspector has , has to say after his visits , not very far away er , their Chief Officer will go on with this programme |
| 12 | Well I know that my colleague Joanna Innes wants to comment on this , but if I could answer that immediately , I think there is a question about how you define what the major problem is . |
| 13 | Not even her nervousness about travelling on her own could make that go away . |
| 14 | got twenty one , twenty two , twenty seven , twenty eight , twenty , twenty plus something , we could make that N if you like instead of X. We could make it N , N is just some number from about nought to nine . |
| 15 | It could make that the central point of its election manifesto if it is so profoundly excited by it . |
| 16 | And it occurred to me , I could make that a , a little nature reserve , very small , but erm rather like nature reserves that the Trust look after , and so erm I negotiated with the farmer |
| 17 | Erm or the the Y against I mean in this one if you You could plot that against X which is the normal way . |
| 18 | He could fancy that he smelt its medicinal tang in the rain-washed air . |
| 19 | No one could think that improvement is not necessary to safety , especially in quarrying , construction , diving or works transport . |
| 20 | I could think that I was at school again , lying in the long grass waiting to bat , or walking over Berkshire downs or along a Devon valley . |
| 21 | Did anyone else see on teletext last night , that gobber Fergie was voted best manger in the world ? admittedly by some shitty magazine , but how anyone could think that he 's a good manager is beyond me . |
| 22 | You could paint that on a board , and underneath we could have a rhyming couplet . |
| 23 | If I asked a question of him then he 'd answer seriously , but if I floated a question and waited to see which of the students would pick it up I could guarantee that it would never be Holly . |
| 24 | Government employees were given the day off to swell the crowd , and Mr Hun Sen emphasised that only his party could guarantee that they would keep their jobs . |
| 25 | ‘ If you went to a summer party in 1970 , ’ said Joanne Brogden , Professor of Fashion at the Royal College of Art , ‘ you could guarantee that most women would be wearing a long ‘ Laura Ashley ’ skirt or dress . |
| 26 | You could guarantee that if you waited top of one of those yards that somebody would be fighting or wanted to fight or a window could get broken or , or either men or women . |
| 27 | You could guarantee that the welcoming line would be ‘ Oh ! |
| 28 | He forecast that the 1992 grain harvest would be better than the previous year , and could guarantee that the people would not go hungry during the winter . |
| 29 | ‘ And the commission would not agree to postpone payment until slaughter unless we could guarantee that it would be picked up by the holder of the animal when it was ten months old . ’ |
| 30 | * I suppose that one could consider that the crack has been blunted . |